Table with nesting table top
AssigneeLifetime Products, Inc.
InventorsWendell Peery, David C. Winter, Mitch Johnson
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Abstract
A table may be sized and configured to nest with another table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top with a receiving portion disposed at least proximate an intersection of an upper surface and a sidewall. The table top may also include a lip and a lower portion of the lip may include a contact surface that is sized and configured to contact an upper surface of an adjacent, nested table. The lower portion of the lip may also include an engaging portion that is sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of an adjacent, nested table. The contact surface and the engaging portion may be directly adjacent to each other in the lower portion of the lip.
Claims18
A table top sized and configured to nest with an adjacent table top when the table tops are disposed in a stacked configuration, each table top of a plurality of stacked table tops being substantially identical, the table top comprising:
- a generally planar upper portion;
- a sidewall;
- a receiving portion integrally formed with the upper portion and the sidewall as part of a unitary, one-piece structure, the receiving portion disposed at least proximate the upper portion and the sidewall;
- a lip extending downwardly relative to the upper portion, the lip having a generally U-shaped configuration with an inner portion, an outer portion, a lower portion and a hollow interior portion;
- a generally planar contact surface formed by a first portion of the lower portion of the lip, the contact surface sized and configured to contact a generally planar upper portion of a table top of an adjacent, stacked table top when the table top is stacked with a plurality of substantially identical table tops;
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- an engaging portion formed by a second portion of the lower portion of the lip, the engaging portion sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of a table top of an adjacent, stacked table top when the table top is stacked with the plurality of substantially identical table tops;
- wherein the upper portion, the sidewall, the receiving portion, the lip, the contact portion and the engaging portion are integrally formed as part of a unitary, one-piece structure during a blow-molding process.
A table top sized and configured to nest with an adjacent table top to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked table tops in a nested configuration, each table top of a plurality of stacked table tops being substantially identical and constructed from blow-molded plastic, the table top comprising:
- an upper portion;
- a lower portion;
- a sidewall;
- a receiving portion at least partially formed in the upper portion of the table top;
- a downwardly extending lip, the lip having a generally U-shaped configuration with an inner portion, an outer portion, a lower portion and a hollow interior portion, the upper portion of the table top, the lower portion of the table top, the sidewall of the table top, the receiving portion and the lip being integrally formed as part of a unitary, one-piece structure during a blow-molding process;
- a generally planar contact surface in a lower portion of the lip, the contact surface sized and configured to contact a generally planar upper surface of a table top of an adjacent table top when the table top is nested with the adjacent table top;
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- an engaging portion in the lower portion of the lip, the engaging portion sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of a table top of the adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.