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Outdoor table and chair set

US6874427B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 20, 2002
Grant dateApr 5, 2005
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Expiry dateMar 29, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47B2200/11
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An outdoor table comprising a tabletop slat members connected to each other to be deployed and folded, a pair of table-leg assemblies spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the slat members and each mounted to two of the slat members at the center in the deploying and folding direction and adapted to be folded underneath the tabletop, two pair of bars connected to the two slat members at a location near the ends of the slat members such that each pair of bars can be rotated in opposite directions around the location between a state where the bars are directed almost in parallel to the slat members in its lengthwise direction and a state where the bars are directed orthogonal to the slat members, joint members provided on two of the slat members located at the opposite ends of the tabletop such that the joint members are located near the opposite ends of the two slat members on the lower surface, and engagement structures provided on the outside ends of the bars so as to be engaged with the joint members of the slat members.

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