Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Plural related horizontal surfaces – Nested or stacked units
Patent
1993-05-11
1996-10-15
Cuomo, Peter M.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Plural related horizontal surfaces
Nested or stacked units
108159, A47B 700
Patent
active
055643450
ABSTRACT:
A table that is useful alone and in combination with a tray and/or other inserts supported atop the table. The table is of a unitary molded plastic construction and is configured for nested stacking with like tables for convenient and compact storage and handling. The table has a top surface of regular polygonal shape with four truncated corners, and a plurality of legs depending from the table top at respective ones of the truncated corners. The legs, going from top to bottom, diverge outwardly with each being in the form of a channel that opens inwardly for nested receipt of a corresponding leg of a subjacent table of like construction. The table top has an upstanding marginal rim extending along the peripheral edge of the top surface thereof, and the marginal rim functions to prevent objects from rolling or sliding off the top surface and/or as containment structure for an insert such as a decorative panel and/or a removable tray that may have a design printed thereon. The table and tray combination can be stacked in nested relationship with like tray and table combinations.
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Exhibit A, Stacking Table, Manufacturer Unknown.
Exhibit B, Stacking Table, Syroco.
Exhibit C, Stacking Table, Syroco.
Exhibit D, Left, Stacking Table, Backyard Products, Inc. Erie, PA.
Exhibit D, Right, Stacking Table, Grosfillex, Copyright 1990.
Exhibit E, Table and Tray Combination, Rubbermaid, Wooster, Ohio, "Jan. 1993" Mold Marking.
Crawford Edward F.
Philips Terry M.
Tarorick Felix J.
Anderson Gerald A.
Cuomo Peter M.
Park Ohio Industries Inc.
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