Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Plural related horizontal surfaces – Laterally connected individual units
Patent
1993-06-08
1995-08-08
Chen, Jose V.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Plural related horizontal surfaces
Laterally connected individual units
403329, A47B 5700
Patent
active
054389372
ABSTRACT:
A mobile table system is provided in which multiple tables can be juxtaposed in many different configurations to facilitate a wide variety of both group and individual activities. Each table has a top with oppositely oriented side edges shaped to abut flush with the side edges of like tables, an outer marginal edge configured to accommodate a user thereby, and an inner marginal edge with a generally concave shape which defines a central space when aligned with the inner marginal edges of like tables. Each table includes legs to support the same freestanding on a floor surface. A first one of the legs depends from the top adjacent the outer marginal edge thereof and has a foot at the lower end thereof, and a second one of the leg depends from the top adjacent the inner marginal edge thereof and has a roller at the lower end thereof, so as to permit manual translation of the tables across the floor surface in a wheelbarrow fashion. A latch arrangement may be provided to detachably interconnect like tables in a manner which enables the same to be readily pulled apart.
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Ball Douglas C.
Scheerhorn Lon D.
Chen José V.
Steelcase Inc.
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