Table attachment for chairs

• US 4,591,206 A
• Filed: 09/04/1984
• Issued: 05/27/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elvern G. Pribble
• Original Assignee: Elvern G. Pribble
• Inventors: Pribble, Elvern G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lyddane, William E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, Peter R.
• Application Number:
  US06/646,732
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 297/148-151, 297/153, 297/155, 297/161, 297/194
• US Class Current: 297/148
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/70 of foldable type

Abstract

A table attachment is provided for attachment to the arms of a chair such as a lawn chair, director'"'"'s chair, some types of wheelchairs, etc. A typical chair has a pair of arm rests. The invention provides a pair of supports, one for and adapted to be mounted on and to lie lengthwise of each arm rest. A table member is attached to the front ends of the supports by peg and hole devices arranged so that the table may not only be removed from spanning relation to the supports but may be re-mounted (or initially mounted) on but one support, the peg and hole devices being arranged so as to provide for a plurality of positions of the table as respects the supports. Each support is further pivoted to its arm rest on a vertical axis so as to be capable of selective lateral swinging. The parts may be folded for temporary storage within a folding type of lawn chair, for example, without complete disassembly from the chair.

Claims

1. A table attachment for a chair having right and left arm rests, comprising right and left supports adapted to lie respectively along the right and left arm rests and being fore-and-aft elongated so as to project respectively ahead of the arm rests, each support having front and rear ends and each rear end portion including upright pivot means for the removable and laterally swingable attachment thereof to the respective arm rest, a table member dimensioned to span the mounted supports and being of rigid end-to-end construction to provide right and left end portions respectively overlaying and resting on the right and left front end portions of the supports, and right and left means respectively cooperative between the right and left end portions of the table member and the front end portions of the supports for mounting the table member on the supports, and each of said means including, for each support, front and rear similar round holes on vertical axes spaced apart lengthwise of the associated support and, for the table member, right and left round pegs depending respectively from the undersides of the right and left end portions of the member and dimensioned to snugly but turnably fit any of the holes, and a third round peg depending from the underside of the member at an intermediate portion thereof and also dimensioned to snugly but turnably fit any of the holes, wherein the distance between the first and third pegs and the second and third pegs is the same and is equal to the spacing between the front and rear holes in either support, whereby the table member may be supported on only one support by locating the intermediate peg in the forward hole of the support and one of the right or left pegs in the rear hole of the support.

2. The table attachment of claim 1, in which the pegs are arranged in triangular fashion with the distance between the first and second pegs greater than the aforesaid distance.