Portable massage table

• US 6,981,453 B1
• Filed: 06/08/2004
• Issued: 01/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pivotal Health Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ronald E. Tinsley
• Inventors: Tinsley, Ronald E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Jose V.
• Application Number:
  US10/864,174
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 108/115, 108/34, 108/35, 108/36, 108/38, 108/132, 108/131, 108/130, 108/129
• US Class Current: 108/115
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0064 Table leg assembly held in folded position by tension means
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/083 with foldable top leaves

Abstract

A portable massage table including two abutting table top sections hingedly connected together. Each top section has a pair of legs pivotally attached thereto. A truss member is hingedly connected to one of the top sections. Table support cables extend from each of the outer corners of one of the top sections to the diagonally opposite corner of the other top section through the truss member. First leg support cables extend from a mid-portion of the inner end of the top sections to the lower half of each of the legs attached to that top section. Second leg support cables extend from each of the corners of the top sections to a mid-portion of the adjacent leg. Third leg support cables extend from the top of each leg to the top of the adjacent leg of the adjacent table top section.

Claims

1. A portable massage table comprising:

a rectangular table top including a pair of table top sections having inner and outer ends and first and second sides, said pair of table top sections abutting each other at their inner ends and hingedly connected to one another at said inner ends, each of said table top sections having first and second inner corners at the juncture of said inner end with said first and second sides, respectively, each of said table top sections having first and second outer corners at the juncture of said outer end with said first and second sides, respectively;

a centrally positioned V-shaped truss member having first and second truss leg members having inner and outer ends, said first and second truss leg members being joined at their outer ends to form a truss apex, said inner ends of said first and second truss leg members being hingedly secured to the inner end of one of said first and second table top sections, said truss member having an opening passing through said apex, said truss member having first and second slots passing through each of said first and second truss leg members, respectively, adjacent the inner ends thereof;

first and second table legs located adjacent said first and second outer corners of said first table top section, respectively, said first and second table legs being pivotally connected to said first table top section;

third and fourth table legs located adjacent said first and second outer corners of said second table top section, respectively, said first and second table legs being pivotally connected to said second table top section;

a first table support cable extending from said first corner of said first table top section through said opening at said apex of said truss member and to said second corner of said second table top section;

a second table support cable extending from said second corner of said first table top section through said opening at said apex of said truss member and to said first corner of said second table top section;

first table leg support cables extending from and attached to a mid-portion of said inner end of said first table top section to each of said first and second table legs and attached thereto in the lower half thereof, and extending from and attached to a mid-portion of said inner end of said second table top section to each of said third and fourth table legs and attached thereto in the lower half thereof;

second table leg support cables extending from a location adjacent said first and second corners of said first table top section to an attachment point located in a mid-portion of each of said first and second table legs, respectively, and extending from a location adjacent said first and second corners of said second table top section to an attachment point located in a mid-portion of each of said third and fourth table legs, respectively; and

third table leg support cables attached to the tops of said first and third table legs and extending through said first slot in said first leg of said truss member, and attached to the tops of said second and fourth table legs and extending through said second slot in said second leg of said truss member.

2. The table of claim 1 including spring members attached at one end to the upper portion of each table leg and at their other ends to the adjacent outer end of their respective table tops.