Portable treatment table

• US 6,182,578 B1
• Filed: 01/06/2000
• Issued: 02/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John M. Fanuzzi
• Original Assignee: John M. Fanuzzi
• Inventors: Fanuzzi, John M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilkens, Janet M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Jerry A.
• Application Number:
  US09/462,313
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 108/34, 108/35, 108/36, 108/115, 108/130, 108/131, 108/132, 108/133
• US Class Current: 108/36
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2220/09 Furniture held together by tension cables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/0912 the strut being of two parts foldable relative to one another
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/12 Stowable tables with detachable top leaves
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 13/105 Portable, foldable or collapsible tables, e.g. for surgery or treatment portable, foldable or collapsible chairs for surgery or dental treatment A61G15/002

Abstract

There is disclosed a portable treatment table (10) with a truss suspension system (44, 46, 60, 62, 100, 130). The table is lightweight and able to handle heavy loads.

Claims

1. A portable table, comprising:

a rectangular table top composed of a pair of abutting table top sections hingably secured to enable said abutting table top sections to fold together in a collapsed condition /so that their undersurfaces /face each other and said abutting table top sections are coplanar when unfolded, each of said pair of abutting table top sections having a perimeter frame rail integral with each of said table top sections, and a pair of first and second inner corners and a pair of first and second outer corners;

two pairs of support legs each leg having a first end and a second end, said first end of each support leg being hingably secured to an outer corner of said abutting table top sections;

a pair of x-frames, each x-frame having a first top end and a second top end, a hinged center portion and a first bottom end and a second bottom end, said first top end and second top end of each x-frame being hingably secured to said pair of inner corners of said pair of abutting table top sections, said first bottom end and second bottom end of each x-frame being hingably secured to said second end of said pair of support legs;

a first cable having a first end and a second end, said first end of said first cable secured to one of said x-frames and said second end of said first cable secured to the other x-frame, said first cable being of such length to be in tension when said abutting table top sections are coplanar and where each of said two pairs of support legs are unfolded; and

a locking mechanism capable of securing / said x frame in a single plane when said table is unfolded.

2. The table as recited in claim 1 further comprising a brace secured between each of said pair of support legs.

3. The table as recited in claim 1 wherein said locking mechanism comprises two pair of second cables, each having a first end, and a second end, said first end of each of second cables secured to an outer corner of said abutting table top sections and said second end of each of second cables being secured to each of said hinged center portion of each of said x-frames, each of said second cables being of such length to be in tension when said abutting table top sections are coplanar and where each of said two pairs of support legs are unfolded.

4. The table as recited in claim 1 wherein said locking mechanism comprises a pair of second cables, each having a first end, middle portion and a second end, said first end of each pair of second cables secured to /said outer corner of said abutting table top sections, said middle portion of each of said pair of second cables secured to each of said hinged center portion of each of said x-frames, said second end of each pair of second cables being secured to the /opposite outer corner of each abutting table top sections, each said pair of second cables being of such length to be in tension when said abutting table top sections are coplanar and where each of said two pairs of support legs are unfolded.

5. The table as recited in claim 1 wherein said first end and said second end of said first cable are secured to said hinged center portions of said x-frames.