Office desk with multiple trays pivotally connected thereto

• US 6,182,579 B1
• Filed: 09/08/1999
• Issued: 02/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chien-Kuo Chang
• Original Assignee: Chien-Kuo Chang
• Inventors: Chang, Chien-Kuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Jose V.
• Application Number:
  US09/391,481
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 108/50.01, 108/50.02, 108/50.11, 108/143, 108/92, 108/93, 108/94, 108/95, 312/195, 312/196, 312/223.6, 312/223.3, 248/918
• US Class Current: 108/50.01
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/00 Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0069 with rack

Abstract

A desk includes two inverted U-shaped frames connected with each other and each frame has two legs connected by a bar. A top supported on the two bars of the two frames. Each leg of the two frames has a tube connected to a distal end thereof and each tube has an open end so as to be pivotally connected to an auxiliary device such as a document tray or a support platform.

Claims

1. An office desk with multiple trays pivotally connected thereto comprising:

a first inverted U-shaped frame having two first legs with a bar connected between said two first legs, each leg having a first tube connected to a distal end thereof and each of said two first tubes having an open first end, a second inverted U-shaped frame having two second legs with a bar connected said two second legs, each second leg having a second tube connected to a distal end thereof, each first leg connected to said second leg corresponding thereto at an intermediate point thereof;

a top supported on said two bars of said first inverted U-shaped frame and said second inverted U-shaped frame, and

an auxiliary device having an insertion inserted into said open first end of one of said two it tubes.

2. The desk as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said two second tubes has a notch defined therein so as to received a side of said top.

3. The desk as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said two second tubes has an open first end and a tray having two posts which are inserted into said two open first ends of said two second tubes.

4. The desk as claimed in claim 3 further comprising a document tray which has a connecting tube and said connecting tube connected between one of said posts and said first open end of one of said second legs.