Improved Portable Folding Table.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1892-Accepted. 7th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable Folding Table.
SOLOMON BOYD 71 Union Street West Oldham Lancashire Painter & Decorator
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The improved construction and arrangement of parts constituting a portable
folding table constructed of wood iron or other suitable material and capable of
folding longitudinally down the middle with the two halves forming the table top,
only separated by the thickness of the battens as shown in annexed drawing and
suitable as a school table for public buildings, painters mixing table, paper-hangers
paste board, and other analogous purposes.
Dated this Fifth day of March 1800
SOLOMON BOYD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable Folding Table.
I SOLOMON BOYD of Number 71 Union Street West Oldham in the County of
Lancaster Painter do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the construction and arrangement of a folding table
constructed of wood, iron, or other suitable material and capable of folding longitu-
dinally down the middle and suitable as a school table for public buildings, painters,
paper hangers, and other analogous purposes.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to
be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is an end view and Fig. 2 a sectional side view showing a portion of a
folding table furnished with my improvements.
In carrying out my invention, the table top a is formed in two halves longitu-
dinally and having strengthening battens at either end and in the middle and all
hinged together. The folding legs c are formed in two halves and hinged to the
flats of the battens b. These legs c have folding cross pieces d which are hinged
together in order to support the legs c when open. I employ metallic brackets e
which are hinged underneath the table top a and provided with metallic clips f
to clip and bind the legs c to the brackets e when opened out. By preference I
form the legs c with a recess g adapted to receive the clips and thus render it more
secure. I also use metallic swivels h or buttons screwed to the inside edge of each
leg c above the clip f so as to fasten over the latter when in use.
In this manner
the brackets e are so locked to the legs c rendering the table rigid and steady when
in use.
It will be apparent that my improved table so constructed is capable of being
folded up with the two halves forming the table top only separated by the thickness
of the battens and thus I construct an exceedingly portable and useful table perfectly
self supporting and with no loose parts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
In folding tables, the employment of a clip for its equivalent on the bracket e

page_text: adapted to clip and bind the leg c to the said bracket in combination with a
swivel or its equivalent, serving to retain the clip f in position on the leg c,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 11th day of November 1892.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.