Bed supported desk apparatus
OwnerChester D. Gordoninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus in association with a bed organizer that includes foldable leg tubes telescopingly receiving extensions therewithin for mounting upon a top surface of an associated bed permitting an individual to project that individual's legs between the leg tubes and below an associated desk housing that in turn includes a lid mounted to the housing for storage of components therewithin, as well as lid plate hingedly mounted to the lid to include extension legs received within a groove within a top surface of the desk lid. A support shelf is reciprocatably mounted within the support housing, with the leg tubes pivotally mounted to a folded position in contiguous communication with the support housing for ease of storage thereof.
Claims4
A bed supported desk apparatus for mounting to a top surface of a bed, wherein the apparatus comprises,
- a support housing, the support housing including spaced parallel housing side walls, a housing front wall spaced from and parallel a housing rear wall, and a housing bottom wall, and
- a housing lid hingedly mounted to the housing rear wall, including a first hinge mounting a housing lid rear edge to the housing rear wall, and
- at least one latch member for selectively securing a housing lid front edge spaced from and parallel a housing lid rear edge to the housing front wall, and
- a support plate, wherein the support plate includes a support plate rear edge and a support plate front edge, the support plate front edge hingedly mounted to the housing lid front edge to include a second hinge secured to the housing lid front edge and the support plate front edge, and
- the housing bottom wall includes a plurality of parallelepiped leg tubes hingedly mounted to the support housing, wherein each of said plurality of leg tubes includes a fourth hinge to hingedly mount each leg tube to one of said housing side walls, and each leg tube includes an extension plate telescopingly received within each leg tube, and a plurality of parallel arresting slots in communication with a latch slot mounted through each leg tube, wherein each extension plate includes a "T" shaped latch projection for selective projection through the latch slot and arresting slot of a respective leg tube to permit selective extension of each extension plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.