Multiuse table having a variable configuration

• US 9,468,289 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2013
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LA Tavola S.r.l.
• Original Assignee: LA Tavola S.r.l.
• Inventors: Sambonet, Sergio
• Primary Examiner(s): PELHAM, JOSEPH MOORE
• Application Number:
  US14/064,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20140117004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/088 Sectional table tops
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/16 Holders for glasses, ashtrays, lamps, candles or the like forming part of tables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0009 Plate and dish warming plates embedded in table top
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 39/006 for either storing and preparing or for preparing food on serving trays, e.g. heating, thawing, preserving

Abstract

The invention concerns a worktop suitable for being associated with hollows obtained both in tables and in fixed structures, said worktop having a variable configuration for supporting and inserting removable accessories and a plurality of the elements in mutual lateral contact in a plurality of openings; said worktop comprising a perimetrical frame shaped complementarily to the hollows of the table or fixed structure, the perimetrical frame having portions protruding towards the inside of the table which are provided with means for variably positioning rods into the perimetrical frame, which define the openings.

Claims

1. A worktop adapted to be mounted in first openings in tables and in fixed structures, said worktop having a variable configuration for supporting and inserting removable accessories and a plurality of tile elements in mutual lateral contact in a plurality of second openings;

said worktop comprising a perimetrical frame shaped in complementarity with respect to the first openings of a respective table or fixed structure, said perimetrical frame comprising portions protruding towards an inside of the respective table which are provided with means for variably positioning rods into the perimetrical frame, rods which define said plurality of second openings.

2. The worktop according to claim 1 wherein said means for variably positioning said rods comprise a plurality of holes obtained on the portions of said perimetrical frame.

3. The worktop according to claim 2 wherein said rods are also provided with protruding portions bearing a second plurality of holes for variably positioning other rods.

4. A multiuse table comprising the worktop according to claim 1, said multiuse table defining a respective first opening for receiving said perimetrical frame of said worktop.

5. The multiuse table according to claim 4 further comprising external angular elements for removably connecting to angular covering elements or extension elements of said worktop.

6. The multiuse table according to claim 5 further comprising at least one heating plate current supplied by means of electric cables foldaway housed in said table.

7. The multiuse table according to claim 6 further comprising a supply current primary cable connected on one side to an external current source and on another side to a plug element or to a multiple adaptor-socket from which a plurality of secondary cables derives for current supplying a plurality of heating plates.

8. The multiuse table according to claim 7 wherein said tile elements comprise a tile of ceramic material covered on one face by a layer of steel coating, said coating also at least partially covering the lateral edges of said tile of ceramic material.

9. The multiuse table according to claim 8 wherein said tile elements comprise a third opening for receiving said accessories by support.