Portable chair tray

• US 7,900,566 B1
• Filed: 05/15/2007
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matthew Bunker
• Original Assignee: Matthew Bunker
• Inventors: Bunker, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): WILKENS, JANET MARIE
• Application Number:
  US11/748,766
• Time in Patent Office: 1,393 Days
• Field of Search: 248/231.41, 248/231.71, 248/230.3, 248/292.12, 297/173, 297/174.R, 297/170, 108/42, 108/49, 108 5- 10, 108/50.16, 108 94- 99, 108/166, 108/167, 108/171, 108/145
• US Class Current: 108/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/68 Arm-rest tables ; or back-rest tables
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/705 of detachable type

Abstract

Disclosed is a tray for a portable chair. The tray may include a table attached to a support rod by a first linkage and a second linkage. The first linkage may include a first linkage slot. The tray further may include a clamp attached to the support rod.

Claims

1. A tray for a portable chair, the tray comprising:

a support rod;

a table;

a first linkage attached between the support rod and the table, where the first linkage includes a first linkage slot;

a second linkage attached between the support rod and the table; and

a clamp attached to the support rod;

where the table includes a first leaf and a second leaf, the tray further comprising;

a hinge having a pivot, where the first leaf and second leaf are connected and abutted against each other by the hinge;

where the hinge includes a first L-bracket fixed to a bottom of the first leaf and includes a second L-bracket fixed to a bottom of the second leaf such that the first L-bracket and the second L-bracket press against each other when the first leaf and the second leaf are in a same plane and parallel to each other;

where the support rod is a hollow tube and includes a support rod horizontal portion having a first cap attached to a first end opening.

2. The tray of claim 1, where the support rod includes a first threaded hole and a second threaded hole and where the support rod contains no holes other than the first threaded hole, the second threaded hole, the first end opening, and a second end opening.

3. The tray of claim 1, where a support rod horizontal portion length of the support rod approximately is sixteen inches.

4. The tray of claim 2, where the support rod has a structure that includes only the support rod horizontal portion and a support rod vertical portion connected approximately at ninety degrees to the support rod horizontal portion.

5. The tray of claim 1, where the first linkage includes a first linkage through hole and first linkage cams interleaved with first linkage grooves.

6. The tray of claim 5, where the first linkage further includes a first linkage bottom, a first linkage top, a first linkage front side, a first linkage back side, a first linkage length, where the first linkage slot extends from the first linkage bottom along more than ¾

of the first linkage length.

7. The tray of claim 6, where the second linkage and first linkage are interchangeable.

8. The tray of claim 6, where the first linkage cams and the first linkage grooves both extend away from the first linkage front side with the first linkage cams configured to extend further away from the first linkage front side than the first linkage grooves.

9. The tray of claim 1, where the table is a two piece platform having a table top and a table underside, the tray further comprising:

a first bracket having a first bracket threaded hole and first bracket cams interleaved with first bracket grooves, where the first bracket is attached to the table underside.

10. The tray of claim 9, where the first bracket is L-shaped, the tray further comprising:

a first knob attached to the first linkage and the first bracket;

the second knob attached to the second linkage and the second bracket;

a third knob attached to the first linkage and the support rod;

a fourth knob attached to the second linkage and the support rod; and

a fifth knob attached to the clamp.

11. The tray of claim 10, where the first knob, the second knob, the third knob, and the fourth knob each includes a head with one side of the head having radial teeth and a threaded bolt extending from that side having radial teeth and where the fifth knob includes a head and a threaded bolt extending from the head but does not include radial teeth.

12. The tray of claim 1, where the clamp includes a fifth knob, a stopper, a push plate, and a clamp housing, where the fifth knob includes a knob head and a threaded bolt extending from knob head, where the stopper is a cap having a flat stopper end and a concave end configured to engage a profile of a chair upright portion of the portable chair, where the clamp housing includes a clamp wall welded to a clamp mounting surface.

13. The tray of claim 12, where the clamp housing further includes a door attached to the clamp wall by a hinge and includes a clamp housing threaded hole located in clamp wall opposite of the clamp mounting surface, where the clamp is secured to the support rod by a weld located between the clamp mounting surface and the support rod, where the concave end of the stopper is V-shaped and the stopper is made of metal.

14. The tray of claim 1, where the support rod is “

L”

shaped and includes the support rod horizontal portion and a support rod vertical portion connected approximately at ninety degrees to the support rod horizontal portion, the tray further comprising;

a support rod clamp having a support rod clamp tube and a sixth knob removeably secured through the support rod clamp tube, where the support rod clamp tube is hollow and configured to receive the support rod vertical portion and the sixth knob is configured to touch and restrain the support rod vertical portion from moving relative to the support rod clamp tube.

15. The tray of claim 1, where the first leaf is position parallel to the second leaf to form a table top and the first leaf and the second leaf are configured to be folded together to reduce a size of the table.