US1289739A

US1289739A - Folding table.

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Publication number: US1289739A
Application number: US12170216A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alexander Hahn
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-09-23
Filing date: 1916-09-23
Publication date: 1918-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 1935-12-31

Description

A. HAHN.

FOLDING TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23. 1916.

1,239,739., I Patented D06. 31, 1918.

I v M 76% By Attorney,

wm f 4 ALEXANDER HAHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 28, 1916. Serial No. 121,702.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER HAHN, a citizen 'of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented -certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to folding fumiture, and particularly tables, such as are frequently used for card tables, and so designated in the trade. The object of the invention is to provide a strong and durable table of light construction, and one which can be placed upon the'market and retailed at a moderate price; also, to provide a table which can be safely and economically shipped by parcels 0st, and one which can be readily carried a out by hand for use.

The various structural features can .best be pointed out when describing the invention in connection with the drawin The drawings accompanying thls application illustrate one form of practicable embodiment of the invention as applied to a card table of lightweight construction, in which drawings,

Figure 1 is a top view ofa table equipped with my invention, partly broken away and partlyshown in horizontal section, one of the legs being represented in its open position and the otherlegs closed;

Fig.2 is a section of Fig. 1 taken at about the plane of the line 22. The line 11 in Fig. 2 indicates the plane of the section of Fig. 1; and

Fig.- 3 is a detail of the plane of a section of Fig. 2 showing a leg in a. different position.

- The illustrated table is shown as having a square top and four foldable legs. The top 5 in the present illustration is assumed to be some flexible or yielding material, such as fiber board. The edges of the top material are shown bent over and secured between a dependent framing member hand an outer finishing strip 7. This frame in part supports the top, but this, when made of thin material for economy and lightness, requires a certain amount of bracing, which is afforded in the present illustration by a swastika-shaped truss comprising two cross bars or members 8 secured to the under side of the top and crossing at the center thereof. The outer or transverse arms of the swastika-shaped frame are designated by turn and move it to its open position.

the reference characters 9, and are also se-v screw 12, passing through the frame memher 9 through the top of the leg and into the frame member 6. Suitable spacers 13 areillustrated at the sides of the leg.

The brace 11 for'holding the legs securely in their extended position and for holding them in their folded position comprises a. spring wire bent at its center and held to the leg at a suitable distance from the pivoted end by means of a bearing plate 14. The side wires are shown provided with transversely outwardlyextending bent ends or lugs 15 which respectively ride in grooves 16 cut in the opposing faces of the members 9 and. 6. Each ofthese members is provided with a recess, in the present instance merely a bored hole, 17, for receiving thebent-over ends 15 when the leg assumes its full open position, in the present illustra- Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

The leg is tion perpendicular to the plane of thetable top.

The elasticity of the brace 11 is relied upon to hold the ends 15 in the groove. When it is desired to close the le th e operator grasps both of the wires wit h1s hand and squeezes the ends toward each other.

In ordinary practice considerable care would have to be exercised to squeeze both wires equally and not flex either sutficiently to withdraw it from the slot 16 at the time it is withdrawn from the recess 17. To guard against this a back stop 18 is provided between the recesses 17, so that the operator may readily take hold of both wires and flex them until they are arrested by the stop, whereupon the leg may then .be moved to position.

When it is desired to open the table the operator preferably puts it in substantially the position it occupies in Fig. 1, having the legs away from him and the top 5 toward him. He will thereupon take each 1%? in the lugs 15 arriving at the recesses 17 t ey 2 limit the inward movement of the leg.

The pivot screw 12 acts to securely connect the free end of the transverse member 9 of the swastika frame with the frame member 6 of the table top. The outer ends of the center or crossed members 8 abut against the inner side faces of the adjacent transverse members 9 of the swastika, and such members 8 receive in a longitudinal direction pressure applied to the outer side faces of the transverse members 9 by the spring action of the brace member 11. Such spring action would have a tendency to displace the member 9 were this not in closeengagement with the center member 8. A table of this character is frequently in a closed position for longer periods than it is in an open position, and the above described structure adds greatly to the lasting qualities of the table. When the table is in an open position the brace engagesthe member 9 about midway between the point at which such brace receives support from the member 8 and the pivot screw 12. This feature also adds to the enduring qualities of the table.

What I claim is 1. In a folding table, the combination with a table top having at its underside a rectangular outer frame and an inner frame of the sidemember of the inner frame and adapted to fold along such side into the said free space and when sov folded extending beyond the other end of such side, each leg being located in such relation to the inner frame as to afford a space for the free end of the adjacent leg when this is folded.

2. In a folding table, the combination with a table top having at its edge a dependent frame, a swastika shaped trusssecured to the under side of said table top and having its transverse members disposed parallel with, but spaced apart from the said dependent frame, a leg pivoted between the free end of the said transverse. member and the adjacent dependent frame member, and a brace pivoted to the leg and comprising a pair of spring arms, there being grooves in the opposing faces of the frame and truss members, and the ends of said arms being bent outwardly for traversing the said grooves, and recesses in said groovesfor receiving holding the leg in its open position, the arms of the brace being of such relative proportions that upon the leg assuming its closed position the free ends of the brace assume a position in substantial alinement with the crossed members of the swastika frame.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name this 22 day of September,

ALEXANDER HAHN.

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