US1472575A - Folding table - Google Patents

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2 i Sheets-Sheet 1 E.` v. ANDERSON FOLDING TABLE Filed sept. 12, 1919 lZ-ndei'son,

BY. WM ATTORNEY Utt; 30 1923.

Patented Get. 3i), 1923.

UN'l'TE,

AEMMA v. ANDERSON, or sroux CITY, Iowa.

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FOLDING TABLE.

[ipplieation led September 12, 1912. Serialv No.;323,342.

new and useful improvements in FoldingV Tables, of which the following is aspecication. v "1 The invention has for its primary object, the production of an extensible table which normally has the appearance of a library table and the top of which maybe extended. y

Another object of the invention is the preduction of a table having a folding exten sion top which normally form solid walls at the sidesof the table.

Furthermore the invention contemplates a table embodying legs supporting a top having folding side extensions, which when extended are supported by frames so pivoted to and between the legs as to be normally concealed from view.

Still another object 'of the invention is the production in a table of folding extension,

leaves so hinged at the sides of the table that when extended the surface of the leavesv are Hush with the table top and when folded their surfaces are iiush with the edge of the top.

My invention consists in the construction, combination and novel arrangement of partehereinafter specifically pointed out in theV claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, of which,-

Fig. 1 is a plan of the table constructed in accordance with the invention, parts being cut away;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal section of one side of thetable taken approximately on the line 3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4e is a transverse section taken on the line 4.--4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of-one of the hinge members; Fig. 6 is an invertedplan thereof; and

Fig. 7 is a` perspective view of the coinpanion hinge member.

Although l have illustrated and herein after described the preferred embodiment of the invention, I would not be understood as being limited to the specic structure chosen for illustration, for various alterations and modifications may be made in the Vdetails of construction 4and arrangementof parts,without departing from the spirit and scopeofftheinvention, as defined in theV ap pended claims. v 1 l lReferring, now, to zthe illustrations, the table consists, essentially of a rectangular nected 'by longitudinal rails, ,10,'and side rails, 11.- At each side of the tableV are extension leaves consisting preferably of two leaves, 12 and 13, hinged together as at 14, the width of said lleaves being substantially the sameas the height of the bottom of thek table top that the surface of the leaf, 13,

will rest against the adjacent legs while the surface of the leaf, 12, is flush with the side edge of the table as will be clearly seen at the right of Fig. 2. When extended, the leaves are supported by two frames, each consisting preferably of a pair of flat legs, 15, interconnected by upper and lower rails, 16, the frames being hinged together as at 17, and the free edge of one of the frames being hinged as at 18, to the inner side ofone of the table legs, the width of the frames and the mounting of their hinges being suchY that when folded as shown at the right in Figs. 1 and 2, the frames are disposed between the table legs anddo not extend outside of the plane of the sides of the legs.

top, Ssupported by corner legs, 9, intercon- In order that the' surfaces of the'leaves,

12, may be normally flush with the side edges of the table top and yet permit the Vsaidsurfaces to be flush with the table top surface, when extended, the hinge members interconnecting the leaves and table top, are Y imbedded in the adjacent parts, each Vhinge consisting preferably of a block, 19, having 1n its underside a groove, 20, and on the underside of the said block are plates, 21, the said block and plates being imbeddedV in a mortise, 22,in the table top, 8, and so positioned therein that the faces of the plates are flush with the underside of the table top, the said plates and block being secured together 'and to the table top as by wood screws', 23, or l otherwise. The companion hinge member Vconsistsof a plate 24, embedded in a inoriin tise, 25, in the adjacent edge of the leaf, 12,

and fiush with the edge thereof, said platebeing secured to the leaf as by wood screws, 26, or otherwise. The said plate is formed with a T-bolt, 27, the shank of which slides freely between the plates, 21, of the com panion hinge member and the crossmember, 28, is disposed transversely of the groove, 20, and engages the upper sides of the plates, 21. The T-bolts are inclined inwardly at an angle of forty-five degrees whereby the parts are positioned normally as shown on Sheet 2 of the drawings. To extend the leaves it is only necessary to draw them outwardly from thetable top and then swing them upwardly to the position indicated in dotted lines inV F ig. 3, the edge of the table top being prolvided with a notch, 29, to permit movement of the "-bolt. `When the leaves are extended the folding frames are extended as shown in Figs. l and 2, to support the leaves.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is,-

1. A table including a top, legs at opposite corners. and a distance from the side edge thereof, and an extension hinged to the side edge of the top to swing upwardly to the same plane as the top, and down wardly to a vertical position with its upper face flush with the side edge of the top.

2. A table including a top, supporting means adjacent the sides thereof, and a side extension for the top consisting of a leaf hinged to the side edge of the top to swing upwardly, to the saine plane as the top and downwardly to a vertical position against the bottom of the top and with its upper face flush with the side edge of the top.A

3. A table including a top, supporting means adjacent the sides thereof, and a side extension for the top consisting of a leaf hinged to the side edge of the top to swing upwardly, to the same plane as the top and downwardly to a Vertical position against the bottom of the top and with its upper face flush with the side'edge of the top, and a second leaf hinged to the free edge of said first leaf to swing upwardly to the same plane as the top and downwardly to a vertical position against the bottom of the top and between the under side of said first leaf and the adjacent supporting means.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setmy hand this 8th day of September, 1919.

- EMMA V. ANDERSON.

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