Collapsible tables

Claim 1

A COLLAPSIBLE TABLE COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO TABLE FLAPS, AND, PIVOTED TO THE FLAPS, A PAIR OF LAZY TONGS LINKAGE ADAPTED TO EXTEND GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY WHILE LYING IN PARALLEL VERTICAL PLANES, AND EACH COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO PAIRS OF ELONGATED LINKS EACH PAIR BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AT MIDDLE PIVOTS AND TO AT LEAST ONE NEIGHBORING PAIR OF LOWER PIVOTS AND UPPER PIVOTS, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE LINKAGES SO AS TO BE MOVABLE BETWEEN AN ERECTED POSITION WITH THE LINKAGES HORIZONTALLY EXTENDED AND THE UPPER FACES OF THE FLAPS IN A COMMON HORIZONTAL PLANE, AND A RETRACTED POSITION WITH THE LINKAGES HORIZONTALLY COLLAPSED AND THE FLAPS IN SPACED PARALLEL PLANES INCLINED AT A SUBSTANTIAL ANGLE TO THE HORIZONTAL, IN WHICH THE FLAPS LIE WHOLLY BETWEEN THE VERTICAL PLANES CONTAINING THE LINKAGES AND EACH IS PIVOTED TO EACH LINKAGE ABOUT AN AXIS PERPENDICULAR TO SAID PLANES WHICH AXIS IS SITUATED ADJACENT AN UPPER PIVOT OF THE LINKAGE AND ADJACENT ONE END OF THE FLAP, BUT SO SPACED FROM THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE FLAP THAT IN THE ERECTED POSITION THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE FLAPS LIES WHOLLY ABOVE THE UPPER ENDS OF THE LINKS, AND A PLURALITY OF SUPPORTING CROSSBARS EACH SUPPORTING THE END OF A FLAP REMOTE FROM ITS PIVOT IN THE ERECTED POSITION AND EXTENDING BETWEEN CORRESPONDING POINTS OF THE TWO LINKAGES, EACH SUCH POINTS BEING ADJACENT BUT SPACED FROM AN UPPER PIVOT, SO THAT WHEN MOVED TO THE RETRACTED POSITION THE END OF EACH FLAP REMOTE FROM ITS PIVOT FIRST MOVES DOWN RELATIVELY TO THE ADJACENT END OF THE NEXT FLAP AND THEN SWINGS DOWN TO THE RETRACTED POSITION IN WHICH THE FLAPS LIE MAINLY WITHIN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE LINKAGES.