Patent ID: 7096797

Claim:
A portable collapsible table or game board, comprising: a plurality of slat-like panels, each panel having an upper surface and a lower surface defining a thickness, opposed inner and outer sides, and opposed ends; a flexible web; said plurality of slat-like panels being attached to said web along one of said upper surface and said lower surface and located mutually adjacent; said panels being connected to said web at their respective upper surfaces, wherein said panels include two adjacent inner panels and two outer panels, the inner sides of which are adjacent respective outer sides of said inner panels; said flexible web forming hinges for allowing the folding of said adjacent panels into a collapsed configuration and the unfolding of said adjacent panels into a set-up configuration; a hinge web fastened to said inner panel lower surfaces forming a hinge for allowing the folding of said inner panels into said collapsed configuration and the unfolding thereof into said set-up configuration; and means for engaging adjacent panels to form a rigid table or game board having an upper surface in the set-up configuration and for disengaging said adjacent panels to form the collapsed configuration; said means for engaging and disengaging adjacent panels comprising slot pin locks located proximate the ends of said adjacent panels, said slot pin locks having a lock handle, a sliding pin, a stem connecting said lock handle and said sliding pin, said stem being perpendicular to said sliding pin, said sliding pin having an insertion portion, one of said adjacent panels having a lock pin receiving slot extending inward from its respective adjacent side, proximate and spaced from its said end, the other of said adjacent panels having a lock pin retraction slot extending inward from its adjacent respective side and aligned with said lock pin receiving slot when in the open position, said retraction slot including an inner lock pin slot and an open stem groove for receiving said slot pin lock stem, said groove being formed by opposed open groove walls.