Collapsible table

Claim 1

A COLLAPSIBLE TABLE, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A CIRCULAR SHEET MATERIAL TOP, HAVING A PLANE CENTRAL PORTION, BOUNDED BY A CIRCUMFERENTIAL CONVEXO-CONCAVE RIDGE, RISING ABOVE THE CENTRAL PLANE, WHICH, IN TURN, IS BOUNDED BY A DEPENDENT PERIPHERAL RIM HAVING A CONTINUOUS INTURNED BEAD AT ITS LOWER EDGE; THE CONVEXO-CONCAVE RIDGE DEFINING A CONTINUOUS CIRCULAR ABUTMENT, AT THE CENTRAL PORTION, ON THE UNDERSIDE THEREOF; THE RIM BEAD BEING ION A PLANE BELOW THE ABUTMENT AND SPACED RADIALLY, OUTWARD, THEREFROM; A PLURALITY OF SUPPORT LEG ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN CLUSTERED RELATION WITHIN A COLLAR POSITIONED INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF SAID LEGS AND ADAPTED TO HOLD SAID LEGS IN EITHER EXPANDED OR COLLAPSED POSITIONS; AND, A HEAD, FABRICATED FROM A PLASTIC OF A TYPE HAVING INHERENT FLEXIBILITY IN AREAS OF RELATIVELY THIN CROSS-SECTION, MOUNTED ON THE UPPER END OF EACH LEG, EACH OF SAID HEADS HAVING OPPOSED, LATERALLY EXTENDING, PROJECTIONS WHOSE OVERALL LENGTH IS SUCH THAT THEY CAN BE FITTED BETWEEN THE ABUTMENT AND THE RIM, ABOVE THE BEAD, TO LOCK EACH LEG END TO THE TABLE TOP WHEN THE LEGS ARE IN THEIR EXPANDED POSITION, ONE OF SAID PROJECTIONS BEING OF RELATIVELY THIN CROSS-SECTION AND CAPABLE OF FLEXION TO PERMIT ITS PASSAGE ACROSS THE BEAD.