Table Top Having Notch Means For Receiving Projection From Support Entity Patents (Class 108/157.16)
  • Patent number: 11751679
    Abstract: A dismantlable table includes a tabletop that is fastened by a fastening component to a structure forming a frame, the structure having a lip that lies flat under the tabletop. Each fastening component includes a latch that is rotatable about a vertical axis, having at least one laterally protruding boss, and includes a recess formed under the tabletop that has at least one protrusion facing the axis. In a mounting position, the bosses pass into the recess next to the protrusions, and in a locking position following rotation, the bosses fit above the protrusions, a lower bearing plane of the latch lying under the lip of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LAFUMA MOBILIER SAS
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Neltner, Corrado Roani, Jean-Noël Pernet
  • Patent number: 10730340
    Abstract: A mobile and height adjustable bucket system (1) for decorative or protective liquids such as paints and the like made up of a bucket (2) detachably mounted on a height adjustable stand (3) and a toolbox (4) for holding tools which can be attached to the bucket (2), the stand (3) being adjustable as required by a user using a telescopic pole (17) to position the bucket (2) at a desired working height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HIGHTOWER PAINTING PRODUCTS LIMITED
    Inventor: Keith McGrory
  • Patent number: 9578959
    Abstract: Laboratory table with front and opposite rear frame parts, has replaceable tabletop elements positionable thereon. In a first variant, the laboratory table further has detent openings at regular distances on the front and/or rear frame parts, defining a modular grid. Each opening can receive a detent bolt of a modular tabletop element, each element having at least two detent bolts for the insertion into one of the detent openings. In a second variant, each tabletop element has at least one detent opening on a front and/or rear side of the tabletop element, for insertion of a detent bolt. The front and/or rear frame part of the laboratory table have detent bolts arranged at a regular distance defining a modular grid, each one of the detent bolts being for insertion into one of the detent openings of the tabletop elements positioned on these front and rear frame parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: TECAN TRADING AG
    Inventors: Claudio Isgrò, Theo Meier, Dominic Erb, Beat Bolli
  • Patent number: 9022330
    Abstract: An overhead slatwall mounting bracket that has an anchoring surface and a biasing surface. The anchoring surface attaches the mounting bracket to a generally horizontal installation surface. The biasing surface may either define or provide one or more elongate slots. The mounting bracket is capable of securely supporting slatwall accessories that include one or more cantilever tabs. Each cantilever tab of the slatwall accessory may be inserted into one of the one or more elongate slots and thereby mount the slatwall accessory to the mounting bracket. The invention provides a means to suspend, mount or temporarily affix the tabbed slatwall accessory from an overhead or horizontal surface by insertion and subsequent rotation of the one or more cantilever tabs extending from the slatwall accessory into the one or more elongate slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventor: Roland Edward Heersink
  • Publication number: 20150076871
    Abstract: Portable furniture items including a support structure and a top member selectively coupled to the support structure. The support structure includes first and second supports. The first support includes a leg having a ground end and a waist extending from the leg opposite the ground end. The waist has an upper end opposite the ground end and defines a first notch proximate the upper end. The second support includes a leg having a ground end and a waist extending from the leg opposite the ground end. The waist of the second support has an upper end opposite the ground end and a lower end opposite the upper end and defines a second notch proximate the lower end. The first notch and the second notch are complimentarily configured to enable the second support to matingly couple with the first support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Thomas J. Werner
  • Patent number: 8857351
    Abstract: A modular support assembly generally comprising vertical support members and a horizontal support member, such as a shelf, for supporting objects. The horizontal support member includes a main panel portion and flange portions connected along the sides of the panel for fortifying same. The vertical support members have cavities on their inner surfaces, and the horizontal support members have protrusions at their ends corresponding to the cavities. In some embodiments, the flanges are hingedly connected to the panel such that they pivot between a flat position and a supporting position perpendicular to the panel. In certain embodiments, the protrusions are integrally formed with extend out from the flanges. In some embodiments, the assembly is blow-molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Custom-Pak, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald A. Zimmer, Alan W. Knapper
  • Patent number: 8763539
    Abstract: A kit for modular assembly of a piece of furniture “in situ” that comprises lower, intermediate, and upper main support members. Each of the main support members includes insertion slots with chamfered edges that are oriented at different angles in the periphery. The lower main support member has first and second foot slots that include locking ends. A plurality of cantilevered members having open insertion slots with chamfered edges each have a front fit-in section and a rear insertion section that end in an insertion stop. The open insertion slots are disposed in the periphery of the cantilevered members so that they may engage the oriented insertion slots. The first and second foot members are configured to engage first and second foot slots. The main support members have mutual engagement means that include coupling members and fastening openings for structural assembly of a piece of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Inventors: Ymelda Maribel Odar Pena, Alejandro Fabian Marcovich
  • Patent number: 8468956
    Abstract: To provide a usable workspace for use at tradeshows, conventions and similar events, a collapsible transaction table is uniquely designed to provide transportability and flexibility regarding its setup. In its collapsed condition, the transaction table itself is contained and thereby easily transportable. In its expanded condition, components are provided to provide a usable transaction table which preferably sits at a countertop height but with which also may be modified to further extend into a countertop configuration. To achieve the counter top configuration, a pair of transaction tables are coupled with one another utilizing specifically configured bridging elements to thus create a stable and usable countertop. The transaction tables themselves include a collapsible base unit and tabletop elements which are removably attachable to the base units in an interlocking manner to provide additional stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Skyline Displays, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Parizek, Dixon Gimpel
  • Publication number: 20130008356
    Abstract: The modular folding table includes a collapsible truss framework that supports a folding table top and a folding utility shelf, and includes legs that can be connected horizontally or vertically to the legs of one or more similar modular folding tables, to provide desired table and shelf space with a structure that is foldable, strong and stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: Mark C. Carter
  • Publication number: 20120031311
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable assembly type flat bench, and more particularly, to a portable assembly type flat bench in which a plurality of supports are spaced apart from each other by an equal spacing in the front and rear directions and left and right directions, and interconnected through a connection panel, to thereby reduce the volume of the bench and to thus enable easy carrying and storage, and easy assembly and disassembly, and to enable the size of the bench to be freely adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventor: Eun Ji Jong
  • Patent number: 8074584
    Abstract: A stand suitable for elevated support of water heaters and similar objects is disclosed. The stand includes a planar, rectangular tabletop formed and stamped from sheet-like material, and being further formed with downwardly bent marginal side flanges. The tabletop is supported by two pairs of oppositely disposed leg members, which are also stamped from sheet-like material. Each leg member is formed with a longitudinally extending flat central portion and oppositely positioned coextensive angularly bent flange portions. The surface of each leg flange mates with an adjacent facing surface of a respective surface of a respective one of the downwardly depending tabletop flanges. The stand further includes a cruciform arrangement of overlapping crossbars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: C&S Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Collins
  • Patent number: 7980626
    Abstract: A picnic table includes at least two leg units, a crossbar, a table top and two benches. Each leg unit includes two J-shaped legs. Each J-shaped leg includes a table top support portion formed thereon, a bench support portion formed thereon, and a recess defined in the table top support portion. The crossbar is located between the leg units. The table top includes planks and tubes for supporting the planks. The table top is supported on the table top support portions while the tubes are received in the recesses. Screws are used to secure the crossbar to the legs, secure the table top to the table top support portions, and secure the benches to the bench support portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Danny Plastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yun-Lu Chen
  • Publication number: 20100269738
    Abstract: The novel stand described and claimed herein has been found to be suitable for elevated support of water heaters and similar objects. A preferred embodiment of the stand may comprise a planar, rectangular tabletop formed and stamped from sheet-like material, and is being further formed with downwardly bent marginal side flanges. The tabletop is preferably supported by two pairs of oppositely disposed leg members, which are also stamped from sheet-like material. Each leg member is formed with a longitudinally extending flat central portion and oppositely positioned coextensive angularly bent flange portions. The surface of each leg flange mates with an adjacent facing surface of a respective surface of a respective one of the downwardly depending tabletop flanges. The stand further includes a cruciform arrangement of overlapping crossbars, of which opposite end thereof include means for detachable securement to an oppositely disposed one of said pair of leg members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventor: John D. Collins
  • Publication number: 20100258039
    Abstract: A television table which can be assembled and disassembled without tools is provided. The television table unities a first connecting body and a second connecting body mounted between a tabletop and a pedestal. The first connecting body includes at least one fixing pillar extending therefrom. The second connecting body includes at least one slot. The slot has a proximal edge for allowing the head section to be inserted therethrough and a clamping edge for tight-fitting the fixing pillar. Also, a fixing pin passes through fixing holes of the tabletop and the two pedestals to avoid the tabletop sliding laterally respective to the pedestals and make a connection of the tabletop and the two pedestals firmly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventor: Jack Liu
  • Patent number: 7775165
    Abstract: Plug joint system and method of use are described for collapsible furniture. This new type of furniture joinery results in furniture which can quickly and easily be assembled, disassembled, transported, stored and reassembled. The joint comprises a tapered plug, a square hole at the top end of one furniture part for receiving the plug, and another furniture part with an opening through which the first furniture part is inserted. Each corner of the square hole has a vertical relief cut, allowing the four sides to expand outward when the plug is driven into the hole, securely fixing the two furniture parts together. The plug can easily be dislodged from the square hole by applying pressure from the bottom of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Wristen Paschich
  • Publication number: 20100147200
    Abstract: A table assembly (10), including a removable table top (12) having respective generally flat main surfaces (14, 16), and a supporting structure (18) for the table top (12), the supporting structure (18) including at least two frames (20) each having two upright legs (22) connected by at least one substantially horizontal member (24, 26), whereby the table top (12) rests on the upright legs (22). The frames (20) are mutually articulated about a vertical axis (32) by coupling the horizontal members (24, 26) at a position intermediate their respective ends (34, 36), such that the frames (20) pivot about the vertical axis (32) with respect to each other between an expanded position for supporting the table top (12) and a collapsed position for storage. In some forms of the invention, positive engagement between the table top and the supporting structure stabilise the supporting structure in the expanded position and prevents accidental collapsing of the table assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventor: Nicholas Polidoros
  • Publication number: 20100012001
    Abstract: A tabletop attachment system includes a first body and a second body mounted between a wooden tabletop and a wooden pedestal. The first body includes a first body member having a first side for mounting on the pedestal and a second side including at least one detent extending therefrom. The second body includes a second body member having a first side for mounting on the tabletop and a second side, and at least one slot extends therethrough. The slot has a proximal edge for allowing the second detent section to be inserted therethrough and a distal edge for tight-fitting the detent. The tabletop has a groove for allowing the second detent section to mutually contact with and tight-fit in an end of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventor: Jack Liu
  • Patent number: 7631605
    Abstract: An article of furniture comprises a horizontal planar member, and a support member for supporting the horizontal planar member. A connection system releasably secures the horizontal planar member to the support member. The connection system comprises a plurality of arcuate guide grooves on a bottom surface of the planar member and radially disposed about an axis of rotation, and a plurality of locking projections projecting from a top of the support member in positions corresponding to the plurality of guide grooves. The plurality of locking projections are configured to be received in the plurality of guide grooves and moved in the plurality of guide grooves between an insertion section of the groove and a locking section of the groove in response to relative rotation between the planar member and the support member about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Simple Furniture Company
    Inventor: Scott Willy
  • Patent number: 7469642
    Abstract: An adjustable table and base assembly generally comprises a table portion and a base portion. The adjustable table and base assembly may be alternately assembled in a first configuration wherein legs of the table portion are positioned on top of legs of the base portion, or in a second configuration wherein side edges of the legs of the table portion are positioned adjacent side edges of the legs of the base portion. In this way, a user of the adjustable table and base assembly receives a benefit of a single piece of furniture serving multiple purposes. A shelf positioned on the base portion allows a user to store and/or display various articles using the adjustable table and base assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Inventor: John P LeDoux
  • Publication number: 20080245281
    Abstract: An article of furniture comprises a horizontal planar member, and a support member for supporting the horizontal planar member. A connection system releasably secures the horizontal planar member to the support member. The connection system comprises a plurality of arcuate guide grooves on a bottom surface of the planar member and radially disposed about an axis of rotation, and a plurality of locking projections projecting from a top of the support member in positions corresponding to the plurality of guide grooves. The plurality of locking projections are configured to be received in the plurality of guide grooves and moved in the plurality of guide grooves between an insertion section of the groove and a locking section of the groove in response to relative rotation between the planar member and the support member about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: SIMPLE FURNITURE COMPANY
    Inventor: Scott Willy
  • Publication number: 20080184917
    Abstract: A tabletop attachment system includes a first body and a second body mounted between the tabletop and the pedestal of the desk. The first body includes at least one detent extending therefrom, with the detent including a connecting portion and an engaging portion extending from the connecting portion. The second body includes at least one slot, with the slot having a first end for allowing the engaging portion to be inserted therethrough and a second end for reception of the connecting portion. The connecting portion moves oppositely to engage the second end of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Jack Liu
  • Patent number: 7192082
    Abstract: A portable seating device is provided in the form of at least two horizontal planks having respective coupling ends along which such members may be joined. The underside surfaces of these planks are provided with vertical support containment means. Such vertical support containment means serve to contain and localize the upper end of a central vertical support placed against the underside surfaces of the two horizontal seating members, overlapping their connected coupling ends. A preferred central vertical support is a tapered pail or bucket which may or may not have its carrying handle removed. Additional vertical supports may be provided to underlie further portions of the underside surfaces of the horizontal planks, deployed symmetrically on either side of the central vertical support and similarly localized against the underside surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Inventor: Thomas H. Tennian
  • Patent number: 6846043
    Abstract: Method and apparatus providing a rest member having a support surface and a stand for the rest member, with the rest member having a plural multiplicity of apertures therein to permit the adjustment in height thereof with respect to the stand, which can take the form of an expandable member associated with the rest member and being contractable as well as expandable inwardly and outwardly and accompanied by means for inhibiting the separation of the rest member from stand after the rest member has been positioned on the stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Inventor: Thomas Leoutsakos
  • Patent number: 6827028
    Abstract: A collapsible support includes at least one leg that can be stored in a cavity and at least one substantially smooth surface when assembled in a deployed condition. The collapsible support can also include at least one substantially smooth surface when assembled in a collapsed or stored condition. The collapsible support includes unique provisions for associating the legs with a base in both the collapsed condition and the deployed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Inventor: E. Pryor Callaway
  • Patent number: 6814009
    Abstract: A novel pillar is provided. The pillar having a longitudinal axis and first and second ends, an outer skin, an extruded support structure disposed within the outer skin, with the support structure including multiple cells arranged along the longitudinal axis for support of longitudinal loads, and a tension bar disposed at least partially within the extruded support structure. The outer skin and extruded support may include structural plastic, and the extruded support structure may be separately insertable into the outer skin. However, in an alternative embodiment the outer skin and extruded support structure are co-extruded as a single monolithic piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Acevedo, Hirokazu Goto, Brian Kim
  • Publication number: 20040129186
    Abstract: An assembly fitting has a first fitting part (1), which is provided for attachment to a first component, and a second fitting part (10), which is provided for attachment to a second component. The first fitting part (1) and the second fitting part (10) can be connected to one another by means of a bayonet coupling, whereby a sleeve part (2) of the bayonet coupling is formed in the first fitting part (1) and an insertion part (11) of the bayonet coupling is formed in the second fitting part (10). The insertion part (11) has a number of radial tongues (12). The sleeve part (2) has an inner sleeve opening (4) and tongue openings (5) radially formed thereon, corresponding to the number of tongues (12). Each radial tongue (12) has at least one lug (13), whose outer radial distance from a center of the insertion part (14) essentially lies on a circle and the shape of the inner sleeve opening (4) corresponds essentially at least in part to this circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Giroflex-Entwicklungs-AG
    Inventor: Erwin Curiger
  • Patent number: 6715429
    Abstract: A folding table having a first and second tabletop portions pivotably connected to first and second pairs of legs respectively. The folding table may comprise a pair of buttresses protruding from each of the first and second pair of legs, such that when the table is in the collapsed position, each pair of buttresses extend through openings in a corresponding table top portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Adams Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: William E. Adams, David M. Fountain, Theodore Bloom
  • Publication number: 20030205179
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a support stand which is economical to manufacture and simple to assemble. The support stand comprises at least two support legs and a top member. The support legs have a lower end for supporting the stand on a surface and an upper end having means for engaging and supporting the top member. The support legs are releasably connected to one another to properly space the engaging means from one another. The top member is provided with a receiving means for releasably receiving the engaging means of the support leg to releasably secure and support the top member on the support legs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventor: Hilary Z. Ilijas
  • Patent number: 6536359
    Abstract: An improved fastening structure for fastening a table top (1) and a leg frame (2) includes an anchor element (11) fixedly attached to the table top (1), and a displacement element (22) coupled to the leg frame (2) and movable thereon for engaging with the anchor element (11) through a fastener (3) such that the table top (1) is detachable from the leg frame (2) to form a smaller size to facilitate storing and transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Inventor: Lausan Chung-Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 6520094
    Abstract: A table assembly has a table plate, a pair of leg devices, and a plurality of fastening clamps. The table plate has two pairs of spaced recesses, and a plurality of grooves. Each leg device has a U-shaped rod, two posts, two first link bars, two second link bars, and two support plates. Each support plate is inserted into the corresponding recess, and is formed with two oblong holes aligned with the corresponding grooves Each of the fastening clamps has an oblong plate and two arm plates. The arm plates are extended through the corresponding oblong holes of the support plates and are inserted into the corresponding grooves of the table plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Inventor: Yong-Chang Wen
  • Patent number: 6443074
    Abstract: A table having a base including legs, first and second table top portions that form a table top surface when the table is in the assembled position, and pivotable connectors that connect the first and second table top portions to the base. The pivotable connectors allow for the first and second table top portions and the legs to collapse into a vertical position such that the table can be easily stored and carried. The table top is supported when it is in assembled position by a variety of devices such that the table top will not flex or deform. Pivotable connections are also provided between the legs allowing the legs to form a crisscross pattern when the table is in the assembled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Adams Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: William E. Adams, David M. Fountain, Theodore Bloom
  • Patent number: 6427604
    Abstract: A convertible table system that is convertible between a coffee table configuration and a kitchen table configuration. The convertible table system includes two identical leg assemblies and a table top assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventor: Jerome S. Chrobak
  • Publication number: 20020096094
    Abstract: A display table has a twin sheet thermo-formed base having recesses in its top surface at the ends which receive the lower ends of legs which support a tray above the base. The recesses and lower ends of the legs are tapered to result in an interference fit between the legs and the recesses and the recesses include a flange which extends inwardly and which supports the lower ends of the legs from below. The lower ends of the legs extend through and beyond the flange and define an upwardly facing shoulder which catches behind the flange, on the lower side of the flange to hold the legs and the base together. Lower and upper ends of the base each have a gusset which extends inwardly and abuts the upper surface of the base at the lower end of the legs and the lower surface of the tray at the upper end of the legs. The gussets fit into similarly shaped recesses in the respective base and tray. A tapered snap fit connects the upper ends of the legs to the tray and a partition is provided in the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Martin G. Lira
  • Publication number: 20020040668
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a table includes a support structure comprising a first wire support and a second wire support. Each of the first and second wire supports comprises opposite ends that are joined to define a first and second foot. A portion of each of the first and second wire supports form a first and second support platform respectively. A work surface is supported on the first and second support platforms. In another aspect, a preferred embodiment of the support structure further comprises a first and second cap member disposed on an upper surface of the work surface and connected to the first and second support platforms such that the work surface is clamped therebetween. In another aspect, an accessory includes a mounting portion that is disposed between a first surface of a work surface and one of the support platform and the cap member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Ping Pang Chan, Rama Chorpash, Thomas William Granzow, Andrew J. Kurrasch, Jeffrey Frederick Miller
  • Patent number: 6347592
    Abstract: Presented is a simplified modular free-standing workbench including a pair of laterally spaced and parallel workbench-top support members to which a workbench top is rigidly yet detachably secured by quick-connect/disconnect fastener elements. Pairs of tubular steel legs rigidly yet detachably engage the associated ends of the tubular bench top support members. Foot members are rigidly yet detachably engaged with the bottom ends of the leg members to enable height adjustment. Transversely extending tubular members rigidly yet detachably engage the confronting surfaces of the laterally spaced top support members by quick-connect/disconnect fastener elements to maintain their parallelism. An auxiliary shelf may be rigidly yet detachably mounted on the workbench by an auxiliary shelf support framework supermimposed over the workbench and secured thereto by quick-connect/disconnect fastener elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Inventor: Roy E. Gessert
  • Publication number: 20020011196
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for holding objects at a convenient height on a device such as an equipment stand or a tripod. A tray with an opening is placed over a stand and lowered until the inner sides of the opening engage the sides of the stand. The tray and its opening can have different sizes and shapes, according to the type of stand, the intended use, and the objects to be held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Robert T. Floyd, Donna Floyd
  • Patent number: 6302037
    Abstract: A demountable component table system to improve handicapped access to standard proportioned furnitures common to public places. A table top component has symmetrically positioned cut-outs for foam rubber covered, demountable flexible steel rods to pass from their frame component sockets upwards to the area above the top component where they provide upper body and arm support for occupant utilization and management of the cubic space above the table top. Frame mounted rods with Velcro attachments and a vertically mounted rigid tubular pole which inserts through the table top component into its socket mount in the table frame allow for customized positioning of objects in the cubic space above the top. The front side edge of the top component is cantilevered towards the occupant's chest. Varied types of demountable legs allow for height adjustment in inch increments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventor: Paul J. Del Frari
  • Patent number: 6205936
    Abstract: Presented herein is lightweight furniture that is designed to be decorated with cloth or fabric. The decoratable furniture provides for removable ultimate fabric decoration of the furniture. The furniture has a body that attaches to a leg arrangement. The body has at least one flat surface, a top surface, and an edge structure located about the perimeter of the top surface. The edge structure has a cloth receiving channel into which cloth, or fabric, may be inserted and removably, yet securely, held in place. Thus, the fabric may be easily removed for cleaning or changing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Create It Decor, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Mae Nelson, Judith A. Van Essen Kenyon, Patricia A Lloyd