Table with folding legs
AssigneeSedus Stoll AG
InventorsKurt Buntru, Harald Hergesell, Mathias Seiler
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Abstract
A folding table including a folding steel wire frame and a table top. The wire frame includes four vertical struts and four cross-struts, and the table top has a front edge profile connected thereto. The front edge profile pivotably connects to the upper ends of the vertical struts. The vertical struts each connect on their lower ends to rollers in a horizontally non-pivoting manner. The rollers are also connected to the lower ends of the cross-struts in a horizontally pivoting manner. A first anchor plate is arranged on the bottom of the table top for fixably connecting upper ends of two of the cross struts, and a second anchor plate is arranged on the bottom of the table of fixably connecting upper ends of the other two of the four cross struts.
Claims7
A folding table, comprising:
- a folding steel wire frame including four vertical struts and four cross-struts;
- a table top having a front edge profile connected thereto, said front edge profile pivotably connecting upper ends of the four vertical struts;
- four rollers each having a first hollow portion for connecting in a horizontally non-pivoting manner lower ends of the four vertical struts and having a second hollow portion for connecting in a horizontally pivoting manner lower ends of the four cross-struts;
- a first anchor plate arranged on a bottom of the table top for fixably connecting upper ends of two of the four cross-struts;
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- a second anchor plate arranged on the bottom of the table for fixably connecting upper ends of the other two of the four cross-struts.
A method of folding a table including a folding steel wire frame having four vertical struts and four cross-struts;
- a table top having a front edge profile connected thereto, said front edge profile pivotably connecting upper ends of the four vertical struts;
- four rollers each having a first hollow portion for connecting in a horizontally, non-pivoting manner lower ends of the four vertical struts and having a second hollow portion for connecting in a horizontally pivoting manner lower ends of the four cross-struts;
- a first anchor plate arranged on a bottom of the table top for fixably connecting upper ends of two of the four cross-struts;
- and a second anchor plate arranged on the bottom of the table for fixably connecting upper ends of the other two of the four cross-struts, wherein the first and second anchor plates comprise a pan including a slotted cylindrical tightening disk with a milled end face and a rubber buffer arranged in an interlocking manner, a control lever pivotably attached about a horizontal axis of a respective anchor plate, a pin centrically arranged in said pan and having a square cross-section at a point of penetration of the respective anchor plate to prevent pivoting, and screwed together with a nut on a side of the respective anchor plate adjacent to the table top, and a disk spring arranged between said nut and said respective anchor plate, wherein said control lever is attached to said respective anchor plate via said pin, and wherein said cylindrical tightening disk is pressed into said respective anchor plate with said control lever so as to engage respective upper ends of said cross-struts, said method comprising the steps of:
- swiveling the control lever by 1800;
- swiveling the tightening disk out of the pan about the axis of rotation of a respective roller, and thereby disengaging an upper end of a respective cross-strut;
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- placing a respective vertical strut and a respective cross-strut against the bottom of the table top, flat and unfolded about the axis rotation of the rollers, such that two of the four rollers rest against the bottom of the table top.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.