US1140379A - Table. - Google Patents

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WTNESSES U. 1. KLIX.

TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.4, I912.

Patented May 25, 1915.

IINITE SATES FATIENT @FFICE.

ULRICH J'. KLIX, OF UTICA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH WURZ, OF UTIOA, NEW YORK.

TABLE.

Application filed March 4, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ULRICH J. KLIX, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tables, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanylng drawing.

My invention relates to an improved table, and I declare that the following is a full,

'clear, concise and exact description thereof,

sutficient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout.

The device is particularly a table which can be folded up into a compact space, but is more particularly and further a table which can be entirely dismounted and packed into a perfectly flat and compact form for shipment.

I have illustrated the table in one form, Figure 1 showing the full view of the table partly in closed position. Fig. 2 is a full view of a locking-pin, and Fig. 3 is a full view of a plate for the engagement of said pin. Fig. 4 is a view of portion of the con necting members of the table frame, showing in full lines the means by which one is secured to the other. Fig. 5 shows the pintle or locking-pin referred to in Fig. 2, in full lines in one position and in dotted lines in locking-position. Fig. 6 is a full View of the pin which connects the standards of the table, and Fig. 7 is a View from the bot tom of the parts shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to the figures in detail, A represents a portion of the frame comprising vertical standards 1 and 2, with connecting member 3, all suitably braced, the members 1 and 2 being designed to be opposite one another at different corners of the table when the table is set up for use.

B represents a duplicate of such members with standards 5 and 6 and transverse member 7, the standards 5 and 6 being designed to be at the other pair of opposite corners when the table is set up.

C represents the top of the table, which is of a size from corner to corner to rest easily between the opposite standards, such as 1 and 2, while the other two corners rest in the same way between the other pair of standards 0 and 6, when the standards are Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

Serial No. 681,450.

swung at such position when the beams 3 and 7 are at right angles to each other. The lockingpin is shown at 10, having suitable head for handling and at the inner end having oppositely disposed lugs 11 and 12 which are beveled on the inner faces. This pin is shown in Fig. 5 by full lines in position in the standard 6 and withdrawn from engagement of the table-top so that the latter may swing freely. The table-top has set into it a plate shown by 15, Fig. 8, centrally cut out so that the lugs 11 and 12 can pass through the plate. The View of the plate shown in Fig. 3 shows the side against which the beveled edges of the lugs 11 and 12 will bear, and it will be obvious that when the pin has been inserted through the hole it will be secured by being turned therein, the beveled edges of the pin traveling along and assuming close engagement with the beveled faces 16 and 17, so that as the pin is turned further the engagement between the pin and the plate is more secure. The pins and their engagement with the table top are the same at each corner of the top, so that each can be disengaged and the top removed, or any two opposite pins can be disengaged and the table swung on either pair of opposite pins, as seen in Fig. 1 by the full lines. With such disposition of the parts the table is comparatively compact, but for the entire dismounting of it I place, as in bar 3, a pin 20, and on the bar 7 I place a swinging latch 21, which has a loop 22 to engage in the cutout 23 in the pin 20. By unlocking the latch 22 the frame connected with bar 3 can be lifted out and packed side by side with the other frame, the two being of similar dimensions, and the table-top can be supported by the two opposite pins, as seen in Fig. 1.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A dismountable table comprising two standards of equal size each having vertical portions and a horizontal connecting member between the vertical portions of each standard, the said horizontal members being disposed so that one rests upon the other when the table is assembled, means pivotally and detachably connecting the two horizontal members when the table is assembled, a table top pivotally supported between the tops of the two vertical portions of either one of said standards and means detachably removably securing the top at its other opsecuring the free corners of the table top to posite corners to the tops of the other 0pthe vertical portions of the other standards. positely disposed legs'and adapted to pivot- 2. A table having oppositely disposed legs ally connect said last corners to'said legs.

5 united by a transverse bar at the base and In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my 15 connected in pairs by a removable central signature in the presence of two witnesses. pivotal connection through said bars, a table ULRICH J KLIX. top pivotally and removably mounted at op- Witnesses: posite corners between the tops of either pair ELEANOR T, DE GIORGI,

10 of said oppositely disposed legs and means HENRY M. LOVE.

Copies of this patent may;' be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. 0.

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