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AssigneeVirco Mfg. Corporation
InventorJulian A. Virtue
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Abstract
A folding table construction embodying a planar top, foldable legs and a novel apron assembly connected to the underside of the top. The apron unit comprises elongated discrete, relatively short straight lengths of formed metal side and end strips, or stringers, which are securely interconnected together by spaced apart, one-piece, blow molded corner moldings adapted to be affixed to the underside of the table top. Due to the novel design of the corner moldings and the stringers, the construction of the supporting apron requires no metal bending or welding. Further, the corner moldings can be colored during the molding step and the stringers can be painted to match in small painting units prior to apron assembly.
Claims7
A table construction, comprising:
- (a) a generally planar top;
- (b) an apron assembly connected to said top, comprising:
- (i) at least three elongated angle members each having a base and a generally perpendicularly extending wall connected to said base, said wall having end portions terminating in a curved lower edge portion;
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- (ii) at least three one-piece, injection molded corner members attached to said planar top, each having a top wall, a spaced apart bottom wall, external side walls interconnecting said top and bottom walls, said external walls being provided with at least two vertically extending slots adapted to closely receive said end portions of said walls of said elongated angle members, internal side walls spaced from said external walls, and reinforcing means connected to said internal walls for structurally reinforcing said internal walls;
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- (c) leg assemblies interconnected with said apron assembly for supporting said top in an elevated, generally horizontal plane, said lower edge portion of said wall of said angle members being generally circular in cross-section and the vertically extending slots formed in said external walls being formed to closely receive said angle members.
A table construction, comprising:
- (a) a generally planar top;
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- (b) an apron assembly connected to said top, comprising:
- (i) four elongated angle members each having a base and a generally perpendicularly extending wall connected to said base, said wall having end portions terminating in a curved lower edge portion;
- said edge portion being generally circular in cross-section;
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- (ii) four one-piece, injection molded corner members attached to said planar top, each having a top wall, a spaced apart bottom wall, external side walls interconnecting said top and bottom walls, said external walls being provided with at least two vertically extending key-hole shaped slots adapted to closely receive said end portions of said walls of said elongated angle members, internal side walls spaced from said external walls, and reinforcing means connected to said internal walls for structurally reinforcing said internal walls said reinforcing means comprising a plurality of wall members disposed intermediate said external side walls and said internal side walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.