US1163506A - Table. - Google Patents

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F. CARRELL 81 W. W. MOREAU.

TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 13. 1914.

1,163,506. Patented Dec 7, 1915.

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TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented a. a, 1915.

Application'filed April 13, 1914. Serial No. 831,635.

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that we, FITCHHULEE GAR- HELL and WILLIAM W. MOREAU, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of l/Vaco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to furniture and particularly to a table, the said invention being designed primarily as a dining room table for use preferably in public dining rooms and the like.

An object of this invention is to ,provide novel means for adjustably supporting the table in a normal position, novel means being provided for elevating the table for the purpose of permitting attendants to sweep or clean thp floor around the table, the said invention furthermore contemplating the provision of novel means for suspending furniture, such as chairs, while the table is in its elevated position, thus removing all obstructions from the floor surface to facilitate the cleaning process to which ref: erence has been made heretofore.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had. to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote correspond ing parts in the several views, and in which- I Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation showing the parts in their normal position when the table is to be used; Fig. 2 illustrates a view in elevation of the device at right angles to the position of the device as illustrated in Fig. 1, the table being elevated and the arms for suspending chairs being projected to support chairs which latter are shown in dotted lines; and Fig. 3.

illustrates a horizontal sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1, the table being broken away.

In these drawings 4 denotes a base, the lower portion of which has apertures 5 de signed to receive anchoring means by which the base is secured to a floor, the said base having a standard 6 to which the guides 7 are secured by the fastenings 8, the said guides being spaced apart to form the way 9, in which the rack 10 is slidable. The said rack 10 has teeth 11 on two sides for a purpose to be presently explained. The lower end of the rack 9 has the brackets 12 secured to it by the fastenings 13, the said brackets being of curved formation and acting as supports for the table top 14, the said table top having an aperture 15 to receive the guides and rack.

On the under surface of the table, arms 15 are pivotally held by the members 16 which members may be bolts, rivets or the like, effective to support the weight of a chair when the same is applied to the outer end of the arm. As shown in the drawing, the arm is of curved formation terminating at its outer end in a hook on which a chair may be swung or suspended. The arm is pivoted in place, as stated, and therefore may be swung to a position where its outer end is within the area of the table top so that it will not be in the way of users of the table when chairs are not suspended from the arms.

At the upper end of the guides 7, are cross arms 17 and the outer ends of said cross arms have pivots 18 on which the toothed segments 19 are mounted, the said toothed segments having arms 20 with flexible connections 21 attached to them so that the segments may be operated or swung on their pivots by a pull on the flexible connections.

As has been stated, Fig. 1 illustrates the table in its normal position. when it may be used as tables are ordinarily used and when it is desired to elevate the table and the chairs, the arms 15 are swung outwardly to the position shown in Fig. 2 and after the chairs have been applied thereto, the seg ments are operated to elevate the rack and consequently the table, so that the table and chairs are moved away from the floor to permit sweeping, mopping or other cleaning operation around the base of the table, after which the table may be allowed to return to its normal position, as shown in Fig. 1.

We claim- In a table, a base, guide members having one of their ends secured to the base and being spaced apart .to form guide ways, a table having a central opening adapted to accommodate the guide members, a vertical bar having racks on its edges carried by the table, a portion of the bar extending below the table, said bar adapted to move in the guide, brace members extending from the under side'ofche table and hzivingone bf Infinimny whereofl five hfelinto aflix their ends secured to the bar below th'e'tfible;"oiirigfihtures in the presence of two Wit- 10 cross arn'ls s'eculed to-the guidemembersedtresses. Y

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