Device for releasably connecting a furniture leg with a piece of furniture, for example a table

A device for releasably connecting a furniture leg with a piece of furniture, wherein the furniture is provided with connection means adapted for engaging complementary connection means in the leg, said furniture connection means comprising a fitting having two groups of openings provided in shanks depending from the lowest side of the piece of furniture, said openings being adapted to receive lugs which are substantially parallel with the lower side of the piece of furniture, the connection means of the leg being provided on upper displaceable shank portions of the leg, and being lugs which are substantially parallel to the lower side of the piece of furniture, and wherein said displaceable shank portions of the leg are displaceable from each other under the influence of a disk-shaped locking element which is adapted to displace said portions of the leg from a position wherein said connection means are out of engagement or incompletely in engagement with each other to a locked position wherein the connection means are in complete engagement with each other and a leg is connected with the piece of furniture, said disk-shaped locking element being adapted to be introduced between the shanks of the leg for forcing the legs from each other, and taking a locking position parallel to the lower side of the piece of furniture.