Patent ID: 8579083

Claim:
A method for using a stepladder comprising the steps of: positioning a front section and a rear section of the stepladder attached to a top of the stepladder, the top has a surface and has a right side and left side in spaced relation with the right side, a front side and a rear side in spaced relation with the front side, the right, left, front and rear sides extending down from the surface, the right and left sides connected to the front and back sides, the surface having a recess, a right rear rail of the rear section attached to the right side and a left rear rail of the rear section attached to the left side, a right front rail of the front section attached to the right side and a left front rail of the front section attached to the left side; pivoting up a tray pivotally attached to the right rear rail and the left rear rail of the rear section of the stepladder and below the top with the top extending over the tray from a closed position essentially in parallel with the right and left rear rails to an opened position essentially in parallel with and below the top surface and which causes right and left tray links to push locking pins to which each tray link is attached into a locking hole of a slot in each side of the tray, securing the tray in the opened position; and closing the tray to the closed position by pulling the left and right tray links laterally outward with respect to the tray which causes the locking pin attached to each of the right and left tray links to be moved out of the locking hole in the slot in each side of the tray and pushing down on the tray so the locking pin slides down the slot in the side of the tray.