Fixtures Manufacturing Corporation

Jofco, Inc.

Jami, Inc.

Nicola Balderi

Paul W Horner

Roger A Babcock

Roger Carr

A convertible leg apparatus is provided for use with articles of furniture, such as for supporting two tables in abutting relation. The apparatus preferably includes a double-post leg assembly mounted to a plate. The plate defines a pair of parallel slots, each elongated along parallel axes, and a pair of apertures spaced apart from an end of each slot and aligned along the corresponding axis of the slot. The slots and apertures are sized to receive an elongated fastener therethrough. The underside of each tabletop includes a plurality of fastener bores, each of the bores being aligned with one of the pair of slots or pair of apertures. Elongated fasteners, such as thumbscrews, extend through the slots and apertures for engagement within threaded bores aligned therewith. The convertible leg apparatus can be engaged at each end of a tabletop, and optimally at the joint between the abutting tabletops. The parallel slots in the plate of the convertible leg apparatus allows the plate to slide between a first position solely underneath one table, to a second position spanning the adjacent tabletops. In the second position, the parallel slots are aligned with the fastener bores in one tabletop, while the pair of apertures are aligned with outboard fastener bores in the abutting second tabletop.

Convertible table leg apparatus

A frame-type chair includes a frame having a base subframe and a back subframe. A seat is mounted on the base by sockets formed in the seat which receive frame ends in heat-stake and telescopic relationships. A back is mounted on the back subframe and includes sockets which receive back subframe ends in heat-stake relationships. The chair can be provided with a pair of arms or with a tablet arm.

Frame-type chair

Stacking chair

Flexible spring hinge for chair back and seat

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Kansas City, MO, United States of America

Nicola Balderi