Patent ID: 9573687
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B60N,B64D

Claim:
1. A seat back tray table for an aircraft passenger seat having a base, a seat bottom, and a seat back, the seat back tray table comprising: an arm assembly including a pair of laterally opposing arms pivotally attached to the seat back and a pivotally mounted stabilizing cross bar connecting the laterally opposing arms; a first table segment carried by the arm assembly and moveable with the arm assembly between a stowed position within or proximate a stowage area of the seat back and a deployed position aft of the stowage area; the first table segment including a pair of table supports extending from the pivotally mounted stabilizing cross bar and permitting the first table segment to slide away from the pivotally mounted stabilizing cross bar to an extended position and to slide toward the pivotally mounted stabilizing cross bar to a retracted position; a second table segment carried by the first table segment and moveable between a stored position within or proximate to the stowage area of the seat back and a position laterally-extended from the first table segment to increase the total surface area of the tray table when the first table segment is in the deployed position; and a pocket positioned on a bottom side of the first table segment, wherein the second table segment in its stored position is telescoped into the pocket in the first table segment and adapted to be translated laterally-outwardly from the pocket into the deployed, use position; wherein the first table segment encloses the pair of table supports when the first table segment is in the retracted position.