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Details

Inventors: Solomon, Robert A.; Lenger, Richard L.;
Assignee: Am Fab, Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI)
Primary Examiner: Chen; Jose V.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, DeWitt & Litton

An overbed table having a supporting base, an adjustable vertical column on the base and a table top supported by a cantilever mourned support brace mounted between the vertical column and the end of the supported table top. The table top can have a slidable vanity drawer mounted on the bottom of the table top. A second table top can be pivotally mounted under the table top. The table can also have a double table top. The double table top has spaced frictional driving wheels which cooperate with configured edges on a pair of vertically stacked table tops. One table top is operatively positioned between the driving wheels, while the second table top is operatively coupled to the outside surface of the driving wheels. Motion by either table top in a first direction will cause the other table top to move in the opposite direction. A vanity drawer can be mounted under the lower table top.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In accordance with the present invention, an improved overbed table is provided which can have either a single top or a double top.
The table top is supported at one end by a vertical post and, at the opposite end, by a cantilever support brace which extends from the vertical post out to the remote end of the table top.
Since only a single cantilever support is used for the table top, a substantial amount of weight is removed from the supporting frame.
The reduction in weight make the table much easier to adjust and also to clean.
In a preferred embodiment of the overbed table, a bidirectional double table top is provided having a simple frictional drive mechanism which enables the vertically spaced table tops to move in opposite directions.
These and other advantages, purposes and features of the invention will become more apparent from a study of the following description taken in conjunction with the drawings described below.

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