Patent ID: 6079338
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
A collapsible leisure table comprising a support portion and a tabletop;said support portion including first and second pairs of upper locating seats, four lower locating seats, four pairs of intersected and pivotally connected diagonal struts, two links, and four telescopic legs each including an outer tube and an inner tube; two of said upper and lower locating seats forming a pair diagonally opposite to one anther; each of said upper locating seats and said lower locating seats being provided at a bottom surface and a top surface, respectively, with a raised portion and a right-angled bracket projected from an outer periphery of said raised portion; said inner tubes of said telescopic legs being connected at upper ends to said raised portions at said bottom surfaces of said upper locating seats and said outer tubes of said telescopic legs being connected at lower ends to said raised portions on said top surface of said lower locating seats; said diagonal struts being connected at upper and lower ends to said right-angled brackets on said upper and said lower locating seats, respectively; said first and said second pairs of upper locating seats are further provided at top surfaces each with an engaging hole, and said second pair of upper locating seats each having an inward extended portion across which a long groove extends, and a notch being formed on each said long groove at an outer end thereof, and that each said link has a first end that being slightly downward bent and is pivotally connected to said right-angled bracket of said first pair of upper locating seats, and a second end that is downward bent by 90 degrees to form a right-angled head such that said links are adapted for separately locating in said long grooves of said second pair of upper locating seats with said right-angled heads firmly hooked at said notches;whereby when said four pairs of pivotally connected and intersected diagonal struts are in a fully extended state, said inner tubes of said telescopic legs are brought downward by said diagonal struts to be fully received in said outer tubes and said two links are brought to locate in said long grooves on said top surfaces of said second pair of upper locating seats with said right-angled heads of said second ends of said links firmly hooking at said notches at one end of said long grooves to firmly lock said diagonal struts of said support portion in a stably erected state; andsaid tabletop including four pieces of sequentially and pivotally connected boards that may be fully stretched to provide a plane surface or folded to enclose a hollow space; two of said boards located at two outer sides thereof being formed on a bottom surface at each outer corner with an engaging protrusion corresponding to said engaging holes on said top surfaces of said first and said second pairs of upper locating seats, whereby when both said support portion and said tabletop are fully extended and said links are located in said long grooves and hooked to said notches on said second pair of upper locating seats, said tabletop is positioned on a top of said support portion with said engaging protrusions engaged with said engaging holes to poof complete erection of said collapsible leisure table.