US1763932A - Combined wall table and seat - Google Patents

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June 17,1930. s. KONOP 1,163,932

COMBINED WALL TABLE AND SEAT Filed May 22, 1929 ATTORNEY Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES JOHN S. KONOP, F FLUSHING, NEW YORK COMBINED WALL TABLE AND SEAT Application filed May 22, 1929. Serial N0. 364,970.

The object of the present invention is to provide a collapsible wall table for institutions and it is particularly adapted for use in the cell rooms of prisons wherein the space must be conserved and all cell equipment so designed that every part may be quickly inspected. The table is so formed as to be rigid and strong, simple and quickly made and installed and the elements rivetted together so that heavy parts cannot be readily moved and used by the inmates as weapons.

The improved table is illustrated in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment in position;

Figure 2 is a view in elevation with the table elements raised and moved against the wall;

F igure 3 is a vertical section on the line 33, Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary detail view taken on the dotted line 44, Fig. 1.

The top of the table may be made of a piece of metal 1 with depending flanges 2. Secured to the wall are vertical flange brackets 3, each bracket having a forwardly projecting flange 3" which is slotted at 4. At 5 each bracket is pivoted to a side flange so of the table top. At 6 each side flange is pivotally connected to an arm 7 and the lower end of each arm carries a stud which passes through slot 4 and is headed at 8.

Fastened by welding or rivets to the underwall of the table centrally thereof and toward its front margin is a bracket 9. Pivoted to bracket 9 at 10 is a bar 11 which forms the supporting leg of the table. Pivoted at 12 to the leg are two flanged bars 13, each bar extending rearwardly and being pivoted at 13 to a wall bracket 14.

It will be seen that the flanged bars extend forwardly of the table leg. Resting upon the forward extensions of the said bars is the seat 14. The seat is preferably formed of a rectangular frame of metal having horizontal flanges into which fits a wooden seat-piece, and the flanged frame at 15 is pivoted to one of the bars 13. By this means the seat may be swung from the position shown in Fig. 1 to the right until it overlies one of the flanged bars 13 only and enables the elevation of the table to the position shown in Fig. 2. In such position the seat lies at one side of the leg and the leg passes intermediate the two flanged bars.

Due to the curvature of thearms 7, as shown more particularly in Fig. 3, the table lies with a backward tilt, when in the position of Figs. 2 and 3, and thus is held by gravity against the wall.

Having described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows 1. A walltable for institutions comprising opposed forwardly flanged bracket mem bers adapted for securing to a wall, the flanges being forwardly extended and slotted, a table top pivoted to the flanges, bracket arms each having a connection with one flange and including a member passing through said slot, the. ,bracket arms being pivoted to the table top, a supporting leg pivoted to the table top, a seat support pivoted to the wall and to said leg and a seat carried by the seat support.

2. A table constructed in accordance with claim 1 in which the seat support comprises a bar secured to the table leg and extending forwardly thereof, and a seat pivotally connected to said bar and adapted to be swung to a position angularly of its normal position, preliminary to closing the table.

3. A table constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which the seat support comprises parallel bars having flanged tops, the bars being adapted for pivotal connection to a wall, and a seat normally lying upon said flanges and adapted to be swung for support upon the flange of one bar only. i

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN S. KONOP.

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