DE1242825B - Collapsible table - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN WTTvitF PATENT OFFICE

EDITORIAL

German KL: 34 i - 5/01

Number: 1 242 825

File number: M 54764 X / 34 i

Filing date: November 9, 1962

Open date: June 22, 1967

The invention relates to a collapsible table with hinged table legs or at least one articulated pair of table legs, with the one on the table top and on the table legs on the other hand holding pieces with recordings which are aligned with one another in the position of use are provided for a locking bar.

Tables of this type are preferably designed so that they can be attached by adding another Extend the table or use it yourself as an extension table. If there are several such A row of tables comprising tables only needs at least one table to become an independently stable table be; it can have fixed legs or it can even be designed as a collapsible table be. With the extension tables, however, it is sufficient if they have at least one pair of table legs. Dispensing with a second pair of legs has the advantage that it reduces costs and weight and in particular the space requirement of the table in the folded state is noticeably reduced.

In a known table of the type described, the locking rails are each in the receptacle a holding piece provided on a table leg is pivotably mounted. For attaching a Extension table has each holding piece provided on a table leg on its facing away from the table leg Side another recording into which one leg of the one on the underside of the table top the angle rail attached to the extension table engages. For locking a pair of table legs in the user guide on the one hand and for attaching an extension table on the other so completely separate funds are provided here. Nevertheless, there is no particularly rigid locking, because the swiveling locking rail in favor of a low weight and space requirement Is flat and not stiffened, so that it is between the in the known construction Holding pieces that are far apart from one another are easily bent under the effect of minor lateral forces.

The object of the invention is to develop a table of the type described above in such a way that that for the locking of the table legs in their position of use and for the Attaching an extension table required components a saving in costs, weight and Space requirement results, the rigidity of the lock increases at the same time. This task is according to the invention solved in that the rails for locking a pair of legs at the bottom a cover plate that is flush with the table top. Foldable table

Applicant:

Lockinlyne Limited, Morley, York
(Great Britain)

Representative:

Dr.-Ing. F. Wuesthoff, Dipl.-Ing. G. Pulse and
Dipl.-Chem. Dr. rer. nat. Ε. Mr. ν. Bad luck man,
Patent Attorneys, Munich 9, Schweigerstr. 2

Named as inventor:

Thomas Cosgrove McGuirk, Birstwith,
Harrogate, York (Great Britain)

Claimed priority:

Great Britain 10 November 1961 (40 310)

or an extension table are arranged. The rails for locking a pair of legs, the Both can also consist of one piece, serve at the same time to attach the cover plate or of the extension table to the table whose legs they lock. The ones provided on the table legs Holding pieces therefore each have only a single recording and are therefore in comparison with the corresponding holding pieces of the known table can be produced more easily, for example by simple Folding a sheet metal plate. The locking rail is also through the cover plate or table top of the extension table, on the underside of which it is arranged, stiffened in such a way that they are not can bend more.

A particularly rigid locking results when, according to a further feature of the invention each holding piece attached to the table top two receiving the associated table leg holding piece Has enclosing recordings.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the fastening plate protrudes from the table top provided holding piece over the edge of the table and forms a support surface for the to be attached Cover plate or the extension table. This ensures that the table top is exactly aligned with the cover plate or the extension table, even if the retaining pieces and the Locking rails themselves are subject to manufacturing inaccuracies.

709 607/37

Claims (4)

The overall fittings required for the table according to the invention are particularly stable and can be fastened with just a few screws or the like to the table top on the one hand and the table legs or a frame connecting two table legs on the other if, according to a further feature of the invention, the holding pieces themselves pass through form a hinge pin connected hinge parts. The invention is explained in more detail below using schematic drawings of an exemplary embodiment. It shows F i g. 1 is an only partially drawn perspective view of a table according to the invention, the legs of which are locked in the position of use, FIG. 2 one of the F i g. 1 similar view of the same table before locking the legs, FIG. 3 is a side view of the FIG. \ illustrated table and F i g. 4 is a view of the FIG. 1 to 3 shown table in a different perspective and with folded legs. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the two legs 2 provided at one end of a table top 1 are connected to one another by a frame 3 and are each connected to the table top by a fitting 4 to 11. Each fitting comprises two hinge parts 4 assigned to the table top 1, which are each connected to a hinge part 5 assigned to the associated table leg 2 by a hinge pin 6. The hinge pins 6 can be pulled out. The hinge parts 5 are formed on a holding piece 7,8,9 fastened to the table leg 2; In a corresponding manner, the hinge parts 4 are formed on a holding piece 10, 11 fastened to the table top 1. The holding pieces 7, 8, 9 attached to the table legs 2 each include a cross-sectionally U-shaped receptacle 7 which rests on the surface of the table leg 2 facing away from the hinge, a front plate 8 resting on the upper face of the table leg and a back plate 9. The holding piece 10, 11 attached to the table top 1 comprises two cross-sectionally U-shaped receptacles 10 which protrude downward from a fastening plate 11 at right angles and enclose a gap 12 of the width of the receptacle 7 of the associated table leg holding piece between them. In the position of use of the table legs 2, the receptacle 7 of each table leg holding piece is aligned - as in particular from FIG. 2 can be seen - with the two associated receptacles 10 of the holding piece attached to the table top 1. The table is locked in its position of use when a locking rail 14 engages in the mutually aligned receptacles 7, 10. According to FIG. 1 a separate locking rail 14 is provided for each table leg 2; if the receptacles 10 of the holding pieces attached to the table top 1 are open on their outer sides in the manner shown, a common locking rail can also be provided for the two table legs of a pair of legs. The locking rails 14 are shown in FIG. 1 and 3 designed as angle rails and on the underside of a cover plate 15 or one in FIG. 3 fixed with dash-dotted lines indicated table top 1 of an extension table. The pair of table legs 2 is therefore simply locked in its position of use by attaching an extension table to the table top 1 or - if no significant extension is required - just a cover plate 15 is attached. The position of the leg of the locking rail 14 engaging in the receptacles 7, 10 in relation to the edge 16 of the extension table top or cover plate 15 pointing towards the table top 1 is selected so that this edge rests tightly on the table edge 18. It is also provided that the fastening plate 11 of the holding piece provided on the table top 1 protrudes beyond the table edge 18 and forms a support surface 17 for the cover plate 15 or the extension table. As a result of this arrangement, the cover plate 15 or the extension table is precisely aligned with the table top 1 and completely covers the receptacles 7, 10 of the holding pieces and the locking rail 14, so that the table cannot be seen from above as a collapsible table. In a modified embodiment of the invention, not shown, stop surfaces are provided on the holding pieces, which prevent a lateral displacement of the locking rails 14 and thus also of the cover plate 15 or the extension table. Patent claims: 1. Collapsible table with articulated table legs or at least one articulated pair of table legs, in which on the table top on the one hand and on the table legs on the other hand holding pieces are provided with in the position of use aligned receptacles for a locking rail, characterized in that the rails (14) for locking a pair of legs (2, 3) are arranged on the underside of a cover plate (15) aligned with the table top (1 ) or an extension table. That the attached to the tabletop (1) support piece (10,11), two recording (7) 2. Table according to claim 1, characterized in that the associated table leg holding piece (7, 8) enclosing holders (10). 3. Table according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the fastening plate (11) juts out of the provided on the table top (1) holding piece (10,11) over the table edge (18) and a support surface (17) for the to be applied in the cover plate ( 15) or the extension table. 4. Table according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the holding pieces (7, 8; 10, 11) themselves form the hinge parts connected to one another by a hinge pin (6). Considered publications:
British Patent No. 820,306;
French patent specification No. 1 193 972. 1 sheet of drawings 709 607/37 6.67 © Bundesdruckerei Berlin