Patent ID: 7971929

Claim:
A meal tray assembly for being carried by an aft-facing side of a seat back for use by a person seated aft of the seat back, and comprising: (a) a tray mountable to the seat back and movable between a stowed position generally flush with the seat back and a deployed position generally perpendicular to the seat back, the tray including a first shell having a forward facing surface when in the stowed position and a second shell for mating with the first shell and having a rearward facing surface towards the aft direction when in the stowed position; (b) a major recess defined in the rearward facing surface of the second shell; (c) an inwardly facing elongate flange carried by the rearward facing surface of the second shell and extending towards the major recess, the inwardly facing flange comprising a first pair of spaced-apart, opposing flanges carried on laterally extending sides of the rearward facing surface of the second shell and a second pair of spaced-apart, opposing flanges carried on longitudinally extending sides of the rearward facing surface of the second shell; and (d) a flexible screen for being positioned in the recess by an interference fit between the inwardly facing flange and an engaging surface of the major recess.