DE20202518U1 - Table with a divisible tabletop - Google Patents

Abstract

A picnic table has a table top with two halves with a dividing line through the centre. Each half astride the centreline has a semi-circular cut-out. The Table has legs and a suitable side-frame structure linking the two halves. The diameter of the circular cut-out is e.g. approx. 300 mm, to embrace a tree trunk.

Description

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Table with a divisible table top

The invention relates to a table with a divisible table top and legs supporting it.

Tables of this type are known, for example, as dining tables with end plates containing the table legs and length-adjustable supports running between them, on which closed insert plates can be arranged to extend the dining table.

In view of this state of the art, the inventor has set himself the objective of designing a table which can be used in particular in a natural environment -- including this environment -- trees and bushes should be able to become parts of a table formed by the table according to the invention.

The teaching of the independent claim leads to the solution of this problem; the subclaims indicate advantageous further developments. In addition, all combinations of at least two of the features disclosed in the description, the drawing and/or the claims fall within the scope of the invention.

According to the invention, the table top is provided with at least one recess at a distance from its edge and this is designed to be accessible from the side. For this purpose, the recess should be arranged on at least one dividing line of the table top; the table top is pulled apart at this point, the corresponding tree is inserted into one half of the recess, then the other half of the table is attached.

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The simplest form has proven to be a circular recess in the table top, which is obviously large enough to accommodate a medium-sized tree trunk, so the diameter should be around 300 mm. If the table top parts are pulled apart, they can be supplemented with spacer inserts that partially limit the recess.

According to a further feature of the invention, both parts of the inner edges of the recess and the inner edge of the inserts delimit the newly formed and enlarged recess.

Within the scope of the invention, both two inserts -- then opposite each other -- can be used, as well as -- in another embodiment -- two insert boards, which both together delimit the entire recess.

The table top parts including inserts or insert boards are preferably held together by support elements arranged on the underside, which can be telescopic rails, for example. In this case, the table legs are attached separately to the underside of the table top.

However, it has also proven to be advantageous to join a table leg with a section of a supporting element as an angle piece, which makes assembly much easier. Two such angle pieces can then be pushed into one another or pulled apart and support the table top in its different configurations.

Overall, this results in a device that can be integrated into nature and that serves as a table or a board on the one hand and, on the other hand, offers at least one opening through which a natural plant can penetrate.

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Further advantages, features and details of the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments and from the drawing, which shows in

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an oblique view of a table;

Fig. 2: the oblique view corresponding to Fig. 1 of other designs of such a table;

Fig. 3, 4: each a partial bottom view of other embodiments.

According to Fig. 1, a table 10 has a table top 14 of length a on vertical legs 12, which is approximately horizontally aligned and oval when viewed from above, in the center of which a circular recess 30 can be seen; the diameter d of this recess 30, here 400 mm, corresponds here to approximately half the distance ζ between the plate edges 16 or the width b of the table top 14, which is divided into two halves 18 of the respective length ai. The two plate halves 18 abut one another at a diametrical line 20 of the table 10 or the table top 14, which runs through the center of the table top 14; this diametrical line 20 is determined in the embodiment according to Fig. 1 by a diameter line D of the recess 30. The length of this abutment area corresponds to the distance ζ of the recess 30 from the plate edge 16.

The table 10 is arranged around a tree B such that its trunk B _x passes through the recess 30. By dividing the table top 14, it can be assigned to the tree B at any stage of growth.

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In addition, the size of the recess 30 can be adapted to the thickness i of the trunk Bi. The table 10 of Fig. 2 contains two inserts 24 of length n between the two plate or table halves 18 or between their diametrical lines 20, which continue the curved shape of the recess edge 32 in plan view with their inner edges 26 which are bent in a part-circular shape and increase both the length a of the table 10 and the parallel length e of the recess 30. The latter is now no longer round in shape, but rather approximately oval.

The shape of the contour of both the table top 18 and the recess 30 can be adapted to the circumstances as desired; thus Fig. 3 offers a rectangular table 10 _a with a rectangular table top 14 _a and a likewise rectangular recess 30 _a . This is limited on the one hand by linear inner edges 19 of the plate halves 18 _a , and on the other hand by -- also linear -- inner edges 26 of two inserts 24 _a which are rectangular in plan view and whose horizontal distance from one another is designated by f.

In this embodiment, the table top 14 _a - both in the illustrated and in the shortened version after removing the inserts 24 _a - is supported by two separate frames 34. The table legs 12 _a are rectangular tubes, two of which are clearly designed as angle pieces 36; a hollow angle arm 38 fixed to the lower surface 15 of the table top 14 _a accommodates a coaxial angle arm 40 -- with a smaller cross-sectional diameter -- of the table leg 12 _a assigned within the frame 34; both angle arms 38, 40 form a telescopic connection 44 between the two table legs 12 _a of the frame 34, which can be fixed by locking pins 42 or the like. Thanks to this telescopic connection 44, the leg spacing q can be adjusted and with it the length e of the inserts 24 _a , i.e. the width of the recess 30 _a . For example,

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By additionally inserting two further inserts 24 _a, the recess 30 _a can be made wider.

In the rectangular table 10 _a of Fig. 4, the table legs 12 _a -- also of rectangular cross-section -- which are designed to be telescopically extendible here -- are fixed directly to the lower surface 15 and, next to these, channel-like guide rails 46, each of which is coaxially assigned an insertion profile 48 of the other table half, which engages under an insert board 25 adapted to the table width b; this contains a half recess 30 _b of oval shape, which -- not visible -- is supplemented by a corresponding recess of a second insert board 25; the two insert boards 25 abut one another with their inner edges 27 facing one another.

Claims (14)

1. Table with a divisible table top ( 14 , 14a ) and legs ( 12 , 12a ) supporting _the table top, characterized in that the table top ( 14 , _14a ) is provided with a recess ( 30 , 30a _, 30b ₎ at a distance (z) from its plate edge ( 16 ₎ and this recess is designed to be accessible from the side. 2. Table according to claim 1, characterized in that the recess ( 30 , 30a , 30b ₎ is arranged on at least one dividing line ( 20 ) _of the table top ( 14 , 14a ₎ . 3. Table according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by a circular recess ( 30 ) of the table top ( 14 ). 4. Table according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that a diameter line (D) of the recess ( 30 ) determines the position of the dividing line ( 20 ). 5. Table according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that inserts ( 24 , _{24a ,} 25 ) can be attached at least partially to the edges of the table top ( 14 , 14a ) determined by the dividing line ( 20 ). 6. Table according to claim 5, characterized in that an inner edge ( 26 , 26a ) _of the insert ( 24 _, 24a ) delimits the recess ( 30 _, 30a ). 7. Table according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the recess ( 30 ) is delimited both by parts of the recess edge ( 32 ) and by the inner edges ( 26 ) of the inserts ( 24 ). 8. Table according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized _in that the recess ( 30 ) is delimited by inner edges ( 26a ) of the insert ( _24a ) and by inner edges of the table top parts ( 18a ) _. 9. Table according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized _in that the recess (3%) is partially provided in an insert board ( 25 ) of the table ( 10a ) and at least two such insert boards run between the table top parts ( 18 , 18a ₎ and delimit the recess ( Fig. 4). 10. Table according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the table top parts ( 18 , 18a ₎ are held relative to one another by support elements ( 38 , 40 ; 46 , 48 ) arranged on the lower surface ( 15 ). 11. Table according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the support elements ( 38 , 40 ; 46 , 48 ) are telescopically variable in length. 12. Table according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that at least one of the support elements ( 38 , 40 ) is connected to a table _leg ( 12a ). 13. Table according to one of claims 1 to 12, characterized by angle elements ( 36 ) each consisting of a table leg ( 12a ₎ and a support element ( 38 ). 14. Table according to claim 13, characterized by a pairing of two angle pieces ( 36 ) whose angle arms ( 38 , 40 ) can be inserted into one another in a telescopic manner.