Multi-configuration table

• US 6,000,343 A
• Filed: 10/27/1997
• Issued: 12/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jack W. Laney
• Original Assignee: Jack W. Laney
• Inventors: Laney, Jack W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, HANH VAN
• Application Number:
  US08/958,056
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• Field of Search: 108/12, 108/19, 108/64, 108/65, 108/185, 108/157.17, 108/153.1
• US Class Current: 108/12
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2009/006 of two distinct heights, e.g. coffee table - dining table
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 87/002 Combination of tables; Linking or assembling means therefor

Abstract

The present invention is a multi-configuration table comprising a table top of four equal-area leaves capable of forming four top variations, and two base portions each having a top side with two cross members, and four legs distending therefrom, so as to define sides thereof, capable of forming several base variations.

Claims

1. A table capable of being configured into at least three surface area sizes and two heights, said table comprising:

(a) a table top comprising four hingedly connected leaves of approximately equal surface area, which may be folded with respect to one another so as to form table top configurations of;

(1) the surface area of one of said leaves, (2) the surface area of two of said leaves, and (3) the surface area of all four of said leaves;

(b) a base comprising first and second base portions unattached to said table top, said first and second base portions adapted to be arranged in first, second and third configurations, said first configuration adapted to support said table top when said four leaves are in said table top configuration of the surface area of one of said leaves, said second configuration adapted to support said table top when said four leaves are in said table top configuration of the surface area of two of said leaves, and said third configuration adapted to support said table top when said four leaves are in said table top configuration of the surface area of all four of said leaves, and wherein two of said first, second and third configurations vary in height.

2. A table according to claim 1 wherein said first and second base portions are adapted to be arranged in a nested configuration and an adjacent configuration.

3. A table according to claim 1 wherein said first and second base portions are adapted to be arranged in a first nested configuration of a first height, a first adjacent, non-nested configuration at said first height, a second nested configuration of a second height, and a second adjacent, non-nested configuration at said second height.

4. A table according to claim 3 wherein said first and second base portions are identical and each comprises a frame adapted to contact and support a flat surface, and each base portion having four straight legs on one side thereof.

5. A table according to claim 4 wherein said first and second base portions are adapted to form first and second nested configurations by the straight legs of each portion nesting toward one another.

6. A table according to claim 1 wherein said table top surface area of said second configuration is formed by a first set of two of said leaves, the remaining two leaves distending from said first set of two of said leaves.

7. A table according to claim 1 wherein said four leaves are movably attached to one another by flush mount hinges.

8. A table according to claim 1 wherein said first and second base portions are connected by a bridging piece when said first and second portions are in said third configuration.