JP2002191442A - Table having legs which can correspond to various tops - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a table having legs which can correspond to various tops different in size and shape by changing the direction of mounting to a leg base body, a leg connector body, and a top support body or the number of leg connector body and top board support body assembled. SOLUTION: A connecting rod 16 and a top support body 18A (18B) can be fastened to any of four mounting positions arranged at equal angles around the upper end of a leg 12A (12B), and a leg base body 14A (14B) is fixed and connected at an optional rotational position to the leg 12A (12B).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a table having legs capable of supporting various top plates having different shapes and sizes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various types of tables are known, as shown in FIG. 1A, depending on the purpose of use, the number of users, the structure of a room, and the like. FIG.
In (a), A is a long table having four legs 2 and a small top plate 1a, and B is a table having four legs 2 and one top plate 1a.
b is a small elliptical table, C is 6 legs 2
In the book, the top plate 1c is a slightly larger table, and similarly, D is an elliptical table in which the top plate 1d having six legs 2 is larger. When the size and shape of the top plate are changed in this way, the mounting positions and directions of the legs are changed, and a more comfortable and stable table has been manufactured.

More specifically, referring to FIG. 1 (b), FIG. 1 (b) schematically shows a leg 2 with respect to a top plate 1 (a-e) shown by a two-dot chain line. The pillar 2a is represented by a white circle, the leg base 2b is represented by a thick bold line, the pillar connecting member 2c is represented by a solid line, and the top support 2d is represented by a bold black line.

First, when the A table and the C table of the same length table are compared, the leg used below the center of the large C table is the other leg and the leg base 2.
b, the directions of the pedestal link 2c and the top support 2d are different, and the numbers of the pedestal link 2c and the top support 2d are also different. Further, when the A table and the B table are compared, since the end of the top plate of the B table is rounded, the mounting angle of the leg base 2b with respect to the pillar 2a is equal to the line X-. The difference is that the angle is 45 degrees with respect to X but 30 degrees. In addition, although the top support is usually of the same length, in the case of a tapered top 1e such as an E table, a long top support d 'and a short top support 2d "are combined. Sometimes used.

[0005]

However, preparing various types of legs according to the size and shape of the tabletop requires that the production and storage of the legs be performed in accordance with the type of tabletop. This means that not only the management of the legs is cumbersome, but also the table where the number of units sold does not increase cannot be diverted to other parts, and the legs may be wasted.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a situation, and is applicable to various types of top plates having different sizes and shapes. It is an object of the present invention to provide a table having a leg portion which can be handled by changing the mounting direction of the pedestal and the number of assembling the pedestal connecting member and the top plate support.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a table having legs capable of supporting various top plates according to the present invention has a leg attached to a pillar and a lower end of the pillar. A table comprising a leg base body, a pillar connection body attached to an upper end of the pillar, and a top plate support, and supporting a top plate above the pillar connection body and the top board support, Both the connecting rod and the top plate support can be fixed to any of four mounting portions arranged at an equal angle around the upper end of the pillar, and the leg base body is provided with the leg base. It is characterized in that it has legs capable of supporting various top plates fixedly connected to a pillar at an arbitrary rotation position. According to this feature,
The direction and number can be changed by appropriately combining and attaching the pedestal linking body and the top plate support to the four mounting portions arranged at equal angles of the pedestal. Because it can be fixedly connected at any rotational position,
The structure of the pillar can be changed according to various top boards.

In the table of the present invention having legs capable of supporting various top plates, the connecting rod and the top plate support may be fixed via a seat attached to an upper end of the pillar. preferable. In this way, the connecting rod and the top plate support can be fixed stably and reliably by the seat.

In the table of the present invention having a leg portion capable of supporting various top plates, a leg base connecting member which can be fixed at an arbitrary rotational position with respect to the leg base member is provided between the adjacent leg base members. Preferably, they are arranged. With this configuration, even when the leg base body is arbitrarily adjusted in angular position with respect to the pillar, the position can be adjusted so that the connected leg base body can always be connected to the adjacent leg base body.

[0010] In the table of the present invention having a leg portion capable of accommodating various top plates, the seat, the pillar, the leg base body, and the leg base connecting body may be one piece penetrating the pillar. It is preferred that they are integrally attached with screws. With this configuration, the leg base body, the seat, the leg base body, and the leg base connection body can be simultaneously attached to the pillar with one screw.

[0011]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a table of the present invention showing a part of a top plate and two legs. In the figure, two legs 10 (10A, 10B) are
(12A, 12B), a leg base body 14 (14A, 14B) attached to the lower end of the pillar, a pillar connecting body 16 attached to the upper end of each pillar, and a top support 18 (18A, 1B).
8B), and the top plate 20 is supported above the column connection body and the top plate support. Figure 2 shows the top plate 2
Since the two legs 10A and 10B below one end of 0 are shown, two pillar connection members 16 and two top plate supports 18A and 18B are respectively provided around the pillars. Although attached to the upper end of the pillar, FIG.
The legs used below the center of the C-table will have three pedestal connections and one top support at the top of the pedestal.

The present invention allows the leg 10A to be easily changed to a leg 10B having a different mounting orientation or to a leg used below the center of the C table in FIG. 1 (b). More specifically, a description will be given with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 which show a mounting structure of a pillar connection body and a top plate support.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state before the column connecting member 16 and the top plate support 18 are attached to the column 12, and FIG. In FIG.
The pillar 12 is formed of, for example, a pipe formed by hollow drawing, and has two ridges 1 from the upper end to the lower end inside the pipe.
2a extends linearly, and two recesses 22a '(only one is shown) are formed on the outer peripheral portion of the seat fitting portion 22a which fits with the inner surface of the pipe of the pillar 12 of the seat 22. ) Is engaged with the two ridges 12a to restrict the relative rotational movement of the two.

The seat 22 has a seat cylindrical part 22b at the upper part following the seat fitting part 22a, and a seat flange part 22 on the seat cylindrical part 22b.
c is formed. When the pillar connecting member 16 and the top plate supporting member 18 are attached to the receiving seat 22,
It engages with the lower cylindrical concave surfaces 16a, 18a which are substantially equal to the outer peripheral curvature of the receiving cylindrical portion 22b formed at one end of the pillar connection body 16 and the top plate support 18.

As shown in FIG. 4, notch grooves 22 are formed at four outer circumferential positions of the seat flange 22c which are shifted by 90 degrees.
c ′ are formed, and these grooves are formed on protrusions 16b, 1
8b. The curvature of the upper cylindrical concave surfaces 16d and 18d near the protrusions 16b and 18b matches the curvature of the peripheral side surface of the seat flange 22c. The shapes of the four notch grooves 22c 'are all the same, while the protrusions 16b, 1
8b have the same shape, so that these projections
2 can be fitted into any one of the four notch grooves 22c ', and accordingly, the pillar connecting member 16 or the top plate supporting member 18
Can be attached to any notch groove 22c '.

The projections 16b and 18b of the pillar-post connecting body 16 and the top plate support 18 are formed on the receiving flange 2
Step portions 16c and 18c are formed by the thickness of 2c, respectively, so that the lower cylindrical concave surfaces 16a and 18a of the pillar connecting member 16 and the top plate support member 18 can be engaged with the receiving cylinder portion 22b. The upper surfaces of 16c and 18c are engaged with the lower surface of the seat flange 22c, and the upper cylindrical concave surfaces 16d and 18d near the protrusions 16b and 18b are connected to the seat flange 22c.
Since it is engaged with the peripheral side surface, rattling during mounting is suppressed, and mounting workability is improved. Finally, the fixing screws 24 are inserted into the screw insertion holes 16 e and 18 e from below the pedestal connecting member 16 and the top plate support 18, and the receiving flange 22 is inserted.
By screwing into the screw hole 22d provided in the position c, the pillar connection member 16 or the top plate support member 18 can be appropriately attached to the four positions of the receiving seat 22.

As described above, the seat 22 and the pedestal connecting member 16
Since the mounting structure with the top plate support 18 has the above-mentioned relationship, any of the legs for the tables A to E shown in FIG. 18, and can be freely configured. Four screw insertion holes 22e for screw connection with the top plate 20 and the fixing screws 28 are also formed in the receiving flange 22c.

FIG. 5 is a top view in which the pillar connection member 16 is separated, and shows a connecting portion 16A attached to the receiving seat 22.
And an intermediate connecting portion 16B. Connection part 16A
As described in connection with the receiving seat 22, the lower cylindrical concave surface 16a, the projection 16b, the step 16c, and the upper cylindrical concave surface 16d are formed at one end, and the screw insertion hole for mounting is formed in this step. 16e is also formed. On the other hand, a U-shaped protrusion 16f for connecting to the intermediate connecting portion 16B is provided at the other end of the connecting portion 16A.
Two screw holes 16g for coupling with B are formed. The intermediate connecting portion 16B has a square pipe shape,
It can be fitted to the U-shaped protrusion 16f of A, and after fitting, it is integrated by two screws (not shown). This intermediate connection 1
Needless to say, 6B has an appropriate length according to the distance between the adjacent legs.

FIG. 6 is a top view of the top plate support 18,
At one end, as previously described for attachment to seat 22,
A lower cylindrical concave surface 18a, a projection 18b, a step 18c, and an upper cylindrical concave surface 18d are formed, and a screw insertion hole 18e for attachment is also formed in this step. On the other hand, the other end of the top support 18 is
Two screw insertion holes 18f are provided. As shown in FIG. 2, the top plate 20 and the leg 10 are connected to each other by a fixing screw 26 screwed into the three screw insertion holes 18f and a receiving flange 2.
The fixing is performed with four fixing screws 28 (three shown in FIG. 3) which are screwed into the four screw insertion holes 22e formed in 2c.

In the above description, the notch 22 is
c ′ is connected to the pillar-side end of the top support 18 and the pillar-joint 1
6, the projections 18b and 16b are formed at both ends to fix the position by fitting the projections and depressions. Conversely, the projections are formed on the seat 22 and the projections of the top plate support 18 are formed. The position may be fixed such that cutout grooves are formed at both ends of the pillar-side end and the pillar-post connector 16.

Next, the connection between the pillar 12 and the leg base 14 will be described with reference to FIGS. 7A is a top view of the leg base body 14, FIG. 7B is a side view, and FIG. 7C is a bottom view. On the fitting side of the leg base body 14 with the pillar, a fitting portion 14a that fits with the inner surface of the pipe of the pillar is provided, and ten concave stripes 15 are formed on the outer peripheral portion of the fitting portion. ing. The ten concave stripes are 30 degrees with respect to the pair of concave stripes 15a, 15a on the central axis oo of the fitting portion 14a of the leg base body 14 in FIG. 7A, and the central axis oo. A pair of concave stripes 15b, 15 on the line segment pp rotated counterclockwise
b, and a pair of concave stripes 15c, 15c on a line segment qq similarly rotated counterclockwise by 45 degrees with respect to the center axis oo,
A pair of recesses 15d, 15d on a line segment rr also rotated clockwise by 30 degrees with respect to the central axis oo, and similarly rotated clockwise by 45 degrees with respect to the central axis oo A pair of concave ridges 15e, 15e on the line segment s-s that have been made, of which a pair of concave ridges fits with two convex ridges 12a (see FIG. 3) formed on the inner surface of the pipe. Thus, the leg base body 14 is positioned with respect to the pillar at a total of ten locations. This positioning is set based on the frequently used 0 degrees, 30 degrees and 45 degrees, but is designed so that ten or more positioning parts are provided and the leg base body 14 can be fixed at an arbitrary rotational position. May be. Also, the leg base body 14
Regardless of the angle position, the cylindrical fitting portion 14a of the leg base body 14 also fits on the inner surface of the pillar 12, so that the pillar 12 and the leg base body 14 form a firm fitting assembly. Be composed. Thus, the ridges 12a and the recesses 15
, The leg base body 1 against the pillar 12
4 can be fitted and the assembly work is extremely easy,
In addition, since the ridges 12a and the ridges 15 are not exposed to the outside, there is no fear of dust adhesion and safety is high.

An engaging projection to which a floor abutment 14 '(see FIG. 1) which comes into contact with the floor is attached to a portion of the leg base 14 which is located on a side opposite to the side where the leg 12 is fitted. 14b is provided. A connection portion 30A of a leg base connector 30 (see FIG. 1) for connecting the adjacent leg bases 14 can be fixed at an arbitrary rotation position at a lower portion of the leg base 14 on the fitting side with the pillar 12. Is provided.

In FIG. 8, (a) shows a leg base connector 30.
FIG. 3B is a side view of the connecting portion 30A (see FIG. 2), and FIG. Two pins 31a are provided on the leg base side of the connection portion 30A, and a screw hole 31 is provided at the center.
b is formed, and an engagement projection 31c to which a floor contact body is attached is provided at a lower portion. The intermediate connecting portion 3 of the leg base connector 30 is provided on the side of the connecting portion 30A facing the leg base side.
A U-shaped protrusion 31d for connection with the intermediate connection portion 30B is formed in the U-shaped protrusion 31d for connection with the intermediate connection portion 30B. Two pins 31
a fits into one of the five pairs of pin holes 15a 'to 15e' shown in FIG. 7C provided at the lower part of the leg base body 14 on the side of the fitting with the pillar 12. The pin holes are line segments p'-p ', q'-q', r'-r ', and s'-s' rotated left and right by 30 degrees and 45 degrees with respect to the center axis y'-y'.
And y'-y ', the leg base body 14
Is always connected to the pedestal 12 at an angle of 30 or 45 degrees.
Are formed so as to face the adjacent leg base body.

FIG. 9 shows a state in which the pillar 12, the leg base 14 and the connecting portion 30A are connected to each other.
Is a side view, (b) is a bottom view thereof, and (c) is a bottom view when the leg base 14 is angularly displaced by 45 degrees with respect to the pillar 12. As shown in FIG. 9B, the leg base 1
4 and the connecting portion 30A are arranged in a straight line, for example, it is used as a leg used below the center of the C table in FIG. 1B, and the pin 31a of the connecting portion 30A is connected to the line y'-.
It fits into the pin holes 15a ', 15a' on y '. As shown in FIG. 9C, the leg base 1
The one in which 4 is directed outward by 45 degrees is used, for example, as a corner leg of the same C table. In this case, the leg base body 14 and the pedestal 12 are formed by the concave stripes 15e, 15e on the line ss.
(FIG. 7 (a)) is fitted with the ridge 12a in the pipe, and the leg base 14 and the connecting portion 30A are aligned with the center line y 'in FIG. 7 (c).
A pair of pin holes 15e 'on a line r'-r' inclined 45 degrees with respect to -y 'and two pins 31a of the connection portion 30A are fitted.

As shown in FIG. 1, the connection between the seat 22, the pillar 12, the leg base 14, and the connecting portion 30A is performed by a single through screw 32. The through screw 32 passes through the inside of the pillar 12 from above the receiving seat 22 and reaches the screw hole 31b of the connecting portion 30A from the leg base body 14 (see FIG. 8B).

[0026]

The present invention has the following effects.

(A) According to the first aspect of the present invention, the pedestal linking body and the top plate support are appropriately combined and attached to four mounting portions arranged at equal angles of the pedestal, so that their orientations can be adjusted. The number of the legs can be changed, and the leg base can be fixedly connected to the pedestal at an arbitrary rotational position. Therefore, the structure of the pedestal can be changed according to various top plates.

(B) According to the second aspect of the present invention, the connecting rod and the top plate support can be fixed stably and reliably by the seat.

(C) According to the third aspect of the present invention, even if the leg base is arbitrarily adjusted in angular position with respect to the pillar, the leg base connector can always be connected to the adjacent leg base. Position can be adjusted.

(D) According to the invention of claim 4, the leg base, the seat, the leg base, and the leg base connector can be simultaneously attached to the pillar by one screw.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1A and 1B show various tables for explaining the present invention, in which FIG. 1A is a perspective view, and FIG. 1B is a model showing various tables;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an exploded view of the table of the present invention showing a part of a top plate and two legs.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the present invention, showing a state before a pillar connection body and a top plate support are attached to the pillar.

FIG. 4 is a top view of the seat according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a top view of the connected pillar-post according to the present invention in a separated state.

FIG. 6 is a top view of the top plate support of the present invention.

7 (a) is a top view, FIG. 7 (b) is a side view, and FIG. 7 (c) is a bottom view.

FIG. 8 is a connecting portion of the leg base connector according to the present invention,
(A) is the side view, (b) is a top view.

FIGS. 9A and 9B show a state in which a pillar, a leg base, and a connecting portion are joined together, wherein FIG. 9A is a side view, FIG. 9B is a bottom view thereof, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a bottom view when is displaced by 45 degrees with respect to a pillar.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 (10A, 10B) Leg 12 (12A, 12B) Pillar 12a Convex 14 (14A, 14B) Leg base 14a Fitting 14b Engage convex 15 (ae) Concave 15 (a '~) e ') Pin hole 14' Floor contact body 16 Pillar connecting body 16A Connecting part 16a Lower cylindrical concave surface 16b Projecting part 16c Step 16d Upper cylindrical concave surface 16e Screw insertion hole 16f U-shaped projection 16g Screw hole 16B Intermediate connecting part 18 (18A, 18B) Top support 18a Lower cylindrical concave surface 18b Projection 18c Step 18d Upper cylindrical concave surface 18e Screw insertion hole 18f Screw insertion hole 20 Top plate 22 Receiving seat 22a Receiving fitting part 22a 'Concave strip 22b Receiving part 22a Cylindrical seat 22c Receiving flange 22c 'Notch groove 22d Screw hole 22e Screw insertion hole 24 Fixing screw 26 Fixing screw 28 Fixing screw 30 Leg base connection Body 30A connecting portion 31a pin 31b screw hole 31c engaging portion 31d U-shaped protrusion 31e screw hole 30B intermediate connecting portion 32 through the screw

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification code FI Theme coat II (Reference) F16B 12/44 F16B 12/44 CF term (Reference) 3B053 NR01 3B069 DA07 3J023 AA01 BA01 BB01 CA11 DA01 3J024 AA02 AA04 BB04 CA03

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A pedestal comprising: a pedestal, a leg base attached to a lower end of the pedestal, a coupled pedestal attached to an upper end of the pedestal, and a top support. A table for supporting a top plate above a connection body and the top plate support, wherein each of the connection rod and the top plate support is disposed at an equal angle around the upper end of the pillar. The leg base body has a leg portion that can be fixed to any place of the portion and that can correspond to various top plates fixedly connected to the pedestal at an arbitrary rotational position. table. 2. The table according to claim 1, wherein the connecting rod and the top plate support are fixed via a seat attached to an upper end of the pillar. 3. The table according to claim 1, wherein a leg base connector that can be fixed at an arbitrary rotation position with respect to the leg base is disposed between the adjacent leg bases. 4. The table according to claim 3, wherein the seat, the pillar, the leg base body, and the leg base connector are integrally attached with one screw penetrating the pillar. .