Horizontally supported planar surfaces – With separable components – Surface separable from support entity
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-01
2009-08-18
Chen, José V (Department: 3637)
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
With separable components
Surface separable from support entity
C108S038000, C108S156000, C248S188000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07574966
ABSTRACT:
A portable voting booth for a user to erect at a voting place when needed and disassemble thereafter for transportation and storage includes a base portion and a plurality of legs for assemble onto the base portion. The base portion defines a plurality of leg-receiving bores for receiving hollow tubular end portions of the plurality of legs. The base portion also includes leg-gripping components within the bores for gripping the tubular end portions in order to restrain the legs from falling out of the leg-receiving bores under influence of gravity. The leg-gripping components of one embodiment include four resiliently deformable, axially extending fingers within each of four leg-receiving bores, the fingers resiliently deforming so that they fit axially into the tubular end portions to bear radially outward against the inwardly facing inner walls of the tubular end portions for leg-restraining purposes.
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Krippner Horst B.
Stephens Richard J.
Chen José V
Loyal McKinley Hanson
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