Improvements in Tables, Seats, and the like having Folding Legs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1899-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1899
Improvements in Tables, Seats, and the like having Folding Legs.
1, HEINRICH FRIEDRICH ANDREAS LOHMANN, of No. 32, Wall, Kiel, Germany,
Merchant, 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 statemont:---
The object of this invention is an apparatus for tables, seats, and the like
having folding legs which is so arranged that the legs can be secured in their
open and closed positions by means of supporting levers slidably secured to the
table top and having spring devices which lock themselves in position auto-
matically.
By way of example a convenient mode of carrying out the invention is shown
in the annexed drawings.
Fig. 1 is an inverted plan view.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the table, one pair of legs being folded
up and one pair not folded.
The trestle c, which forms one pair of legs, is, as usual, hinged in side pieces b
or the like. To the cross bars of the trestles the fixing levers or struts o are
so hinged or joined that they can turn; they terminate in spring tongue-
pieces upon which small pins y are fitted. Secured also to the spring
tongues are knobs h by which they can be moved.
Secured to the levers or struts are lugs i with holes therein through
which the rods k, fixed to the underside of the table a, pass.
The metal bars 1, below the table-board a, serve as guides to the spring
pins g. The bars have openings m, a short distance from their ends, into
which the pins g can lock.
The modus operandi is as follows:--
If the table has to be set up the trestles c are taken hold of at their extreme
ends and opened out (see Figs. 1 and 2, right hand side). Whilst this is being
done the fixing lever e, which, when at rest, lies in the direction of the trestle
and the table-board is also pulled out and glides, with its lug i, along its
bar k. Its spring pin g, which is in position, slides along the bar 1, as far as
the opening m, into which it enters and thereby prevents the trestle moving
any further.
The pin y, as well as the lug i, prevents a non-intentional movement of the
trestle after it has once been set up.
In order to fold up the table, the pin g is pulled, by means of the knob h,
out of the hole m, whereupon the trestle c can be folded' up and placed flat
against the table-top.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I consider novel and desire to claim is:-
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A table, seat, or the like, having folding legs in which the hinged struts or
levers (e) are provided at their ends with spring locking pins (f, g) and guide

page_text: Jugs the table top being provided with guide bars (4) and guides (4) having
recesses (m) for the reception of the pins (9); substantially as herein before
described with reference to the drawings annexed and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 8th day of July 1899.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.