Extensible table
AssigneeN. V. Joseph Mertens International
InventorEdward C. Goyvaerts
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Abstract
The invention pertains to an extensible table, characterized by the fact that it consists of at least one sliding-out table top and at least one extension, whereby the latter is located, in position of rest, under the slidable table top or tops, and whereby said extension can cooperate, by means of outwardly directed protrusions, with vertical slots in each of the adjacent side members of the table frame, and whereby means are provided within said side members which permit, after sliding out the table top or tops, to maintain said extension in a raised position, on the one hand, and to let down again said extension for shortening the table, on the other hand.
Claims1
An extensible table construction including in combination:
- a table frame having hollow side members each with two spaced vertical guide slots and with a horizontal guide slot in their inner surfaces;
- two table end sections slidably mounted between said side members;
- a vertically movable central leaf having two outwardly directed first protrusions on each of its sides, said protrusions being engaged in said vertical guide slots of said side members;
- a pair of operating slides slidably mounted in respective ones of said side members and having at the location of each of said first protrusions thereof an elevated portion with two upwardly converging sides and a horizontal top part, said slide having at its one end a second protrusion engaged in said horizontal slot of the side member wherein the slide is slidably mounted;
- a pair of springs each attached between said frame and another end of a respective one of said slides, said springs continuously urging said slides towards their operative position wherein said first protrusions are located on the top parts of said elevated parts of said slides, said second protrusions occupying end positions in said second guide slots and the upper faces of said end sections and of said leaf being located in the same plane, said operative position being reached when said slides are released to be displaced by said springs when said central leaf is lifted upwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.