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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2009
Jeremias C. Rivera, Jr., Elmhurst, IL (US);
Doss Samikkannu, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Gregory Hanusiak, Chicago, IL (US);
Jeremias C. Rivera, Jr., Elmhurst, IL (US);
Doss Samikkannu, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Gregory Hanusiak, Chicago, IL (US);
AmTab Manufacturing Corporation, Aurora, IL (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, an improved locking mechanism for a mobile folding table is provided, permitting convenient access near the top of the folded table to a manual actuator for unlocking the table from a folded configuration. In another aspect, an improved lift-assisting mechanism for a mobile folding table is provided, with a clutch that engages the lift-assisting mechanism only when the table top halves are at an angle from the vertical that is equal to or larger than a predetermined angle. These two aspects may be advantageously and synergistically combined in the same mobile folding table.