Abstract: The folding leg structure of a folding table is journalled for rotation in a cylindrical journal formed in a bracket which is bent-up from a strip of metal and secured to the bottom of a table. A downwardly-extending portion of the bracket has a flat horizontal surface containing an aperture in which a resilient bumper member having a high-friction surface is held. Four such brackets are used, one near each corner of the table, and the bumpers extend downwardly beyond all other portions of the table, when in its folded condition, so that a plurality of such tables can be stacked with the top of each table top contacted only by the bumpers of an adjacent folded table, thus avoiding marring and sideways slippage. An additional bracket and bumper may be mounted near the center of the underside of the table for additional support.

Abstract: A system for the firm, long-lived suppot of a table top on a pair of floor-mounting pedestals comprises a pair of parallel metal rails fastened to the underside of the table, on opposite sides on the center-line of the table top; a pair of pedestals are fastened to each of the two adjacent ends of the rails by bolts which pass through the pedestals and into internally-threaded inserts welded to vertical channel members, which channel members are in turn welded to the ends of the rails. In each such mounting assembly, the channel member has a rectangular horizontal cross-section, and extends beneath the level of the adjacent rail; one of the inserts in each mounting assembly is positioned below the level of the bottom of the associated rail. The inserts are positioned inside the channel member, with their open ends facing corresponding holes in the opposed wall of the channel member, through which holes and the mounting bolts extend into the inserts.