Device for connecting a table to the side wall of a vehicle

A device for connecting a table for groups of seats disposed transversely with respect to a direction of travel to a side wall of a vehicle, including a rail vehicle, the device comprising:

• an upright supporting structure disposed in a vicinity of the side wall below a table top and having a lower end fastened to the side wall and an upper end fastened to the table top, said upright supporting structure containing at least two substantially flexurally rigid posts disposed upright at a mutually spaced disposition in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and having predetermined buckling points spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of said flexurally rigid posts and having defined buckling axes which, when a defined force acting on the table top in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is exceeded, permit an elastic or plastic yielding of the table in a direction of the defined force, said predetermined buckling points each being formed in a manner of a joint and said buckling axes thereof lying substantially transverse to the direction of travel, and adjacent post regions of said flexurally rigid posts in the direction of the side wall and the table top being mutually connected in each case in a torsion-rigid manner about the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.