Abstract: A table or bench construction comprising in combination a pillar or plurality of bench legs each formed of a plurality of elongate members and spacer members affixed to and maintaining the elongate members in spaced-apart configuration, pedestal means having joint means for engaging the lower end of the pillar for supporting the pillar in a vertical position on a horizontal surface, a table top or bench top support comprising joint means adapted to engage the upper end of the pillar or leg having a plurality of horizontally extending arms, and a table top or bench top. A table top or bench top frame is provided having a T-form cross-section adapted to engage the horizontally extending arms and the table top or bench top. In a method comprising a modified embodiment of the invention, the table top or bench top may be coated with a heat-softening adhesive and sectors thereof may be affixed together in place on the supporting frame by spot heating the adhesive with a torch or heated iron.

Abstract: A table or bench construction comprising in combination a pillar or plurality of bench legs each formed of a plurality of elongate members and spacer members affixed to and maintaining the elongate members in spaced-apart configuration, pedestal means having joint means for engaging the lower end of the pillar for supporting the pillar in a vertical position on a horizontal surface, a table top or bench top support comprising joint means adapted to engage the upper end of the pillar or leg having a plurality of horizontally extending arms, and a table top or bench top. A table top or bench top frame is provided having a T-form cross-section adapted to engage the horizontally extending arms and the table top or bench top. In a method comprising a modified embodiment of the invention, the table top or bench top may be coated with a heat-softening adhesive and sectors thereof may be affixed together in place on the supporting frame by spot heating the adhesive with a torch or heated iron.

Abstract: A lock assembly for connecting two members such as two tubes, rods, lines, wiring, or cue stick sections, comprising a pair of complementary lock members, one male and one female, the male member having a cylindrical member coaxial or concentric with respect to the lock member adapted to rotate in a complementary chamber in the female member concentric or coaxial with respect to the female member, and a curvilinear such as cylindrical member eccentric with respect to the male member adapted to rotate in a chamber in said female member being eccentric with respect to the female member, the eccentric chamber of the female member being of larger diameter than that of the eccentric curvilinear member of the male lock member, and being adapted to engage the surface of the eccentric curvilinear portion of the male member upon relative rotation therebetween, whereby when the male and female members are rotated in either direction with respect to each other, the members are locked together.