Folding table for fitting to the rear side of the back of a seat in a motor-coach or an aircraft

US6279992A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG · DE
• Evobus GmbH Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Plocher · Herrieden, DE
• Stefan Kuehn · Thum, DE
• André Hein · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Michael Andreas Keller · Cannon Beach, US
• Soeren Groth · Herrenberg, DE
• Monika Jessberger · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Franz Kriegelsteiner · Illerkirchberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 21, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 28, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2205/30
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A folding table for fitting to a rear side of a back of a seat in a motor-coach or an aircraft has a folding table element, pivotal articulation means formed so that the folding table element is pivotable back and forth between an out-of-use position in which the folding table element lyes substantially flat against a rear side of a back of a seat and an in-use position in which the folding table element projects approximately horizontally from the rear side of the back of the seat, a holder provided for holding a drink container and movably connected to the holding table element, a guide connecting the holder with the holding table element so that the holder, when the folding table element is in the in-use position is movable back and forth between an out-of-use position in which the holder is stowed in the holding table element, and an in-use position in which a drink container can be placed into the holder.