Folding table assembly with stabilizing means

Claim 1

APPARATUS COMPRISING A TOP SECTION, A LEG SUPPORT HAVING CASTERS AT THE LOWER END THEREOF PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO SAID TOP SECTION ADJACENT ONE END OF SAID TOP SECTION, SAID LEG SUPPORT BEING RIGID FROM SAID LOWER END TO SAID PIVOTAL CONNECTION OF SAID LEG SUPPORT WITH SAID TOP SECTION, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID TOP SECTION FOR VERTICAL MOVEMENT OF SAID OPPOSITE END SUCH THAT SAID TOP SECTION MAY SWING ABOUT THE PIVOTAL CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID LEG SUPPORT AND SAID TOP SECTION BETWEEN AN OPEN POSITION WHEREIN THE TOP SECTION IS GENERALLY HORIZONTAL AND A CLOSED POSITION WHEREIN SAID OPPOSITE END IS MOVED VERTICALLY UPWARD TO A GENERALLY VERTICAL CLOSED POSITION, STABILIZING MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO SAID TOP SECTION CLOSELY ADJACENT THE PIVOTAL CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID TOP SECTION AND SAID LEG SUPPORT AND REMOTE FROM SAID OPPOSITE END, SAID STABILIZING MEANS BEING RIGID FROM ITS LOWER END TO SAID PIVOTAL CONNECTION, AND MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID SUPPORTING MEANS FOR SAID OPPOSITE END OF SAID TOP SECTION AND TO ONE OF SAID LEG SUPPORT AND SAID STABILIZING MEANS, AND MEANS CONNECTING SAID STABILIZING MEANS TO SAID LEG SUPPORT FOR PERMITTING LIMITED VERTICAL MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, SAID TWO CONNECTING MEANS MAINTAINING SAID LEG SUPPORT AND SAID STABILIZING MEANS IN GENERALLY VERTICAL POSITIONS DURING SAID SWINGING MOVEMENT OF SAID TOP SECTION BETWEEN SAID OPEN AND CLOSED POSITIONS, THE PIVOTAL CONNECTION OF SAID TOP SECTION TO SAID LEG SUPPORT BEING OFFSET FROM THE PIVOTAL CONNECTION OF SAID TOP SECTION TO SAID STABILIZING MEANS AND THE RELATIVE LENGTHS OF SAID LEG SUPPORT AND SAID STABILIZING MEANS BEING SUCH THAT SAID LEG SUPPORT SUPPORTS SAID ONE END OF SAID TOP SECTION WHEN SAID TOP SECTION IS IN CLOSED POSITION AND SAID STABILIZING MEANS SUPPORTS SAID ONE END OF SAID TOP SECTION WHEN SAID TOP SECTION IS IN OPEN POSITION AND RETARDS MOVEMENT OF THE APPARATUS WHEN BUMPED ADJACENT EITHER END.