Pull out table for attachment beneath an automobile dashboard

Claim 1

A pull out table adapted for attachment beneath the dashboard of an automobile and movable between a retracted position disposed beneath the dashboard and an extended position projecting outwardly of the dashboard into the passenger compartment for convenient use thereof by occupants of the automobile, the apparatus comprising: a supporting bracket adapted to be attached to the undersurface of said dashboard in a manner extending transversely of said vehicle, said supporting bracket having a rectangularly shaped compartment defined therein and open at the front and back ends thereof; a table holder including a substantially flat rectangularly shaped bottom surface, vertically extending side wall surfaces disposed along each side edge of said bottom surface, and an inwardly directed flange formed integrally with the top edge of each bottom surface side wall surface and extending outwardly therefrom in confronting relationship in a manner substantially parallel to the plane of said bottom surface, said table holder having a back edge and a front edge, said bottom surface and said side wall surfaces of said table holder being of a size and configuration adapted to be slidingly received in said supporting bracket compartment for reciprocal sliding movement relative thereto; means operatively associated with said table holder to limit the forward movement of said table holder relative to said supporting bracket; a table member comprised of a substantially flat rectangularly shaped platform having a pair of downwardly projecting side rails disposed along opposite side edges thereof, said platform having a back edge and a front edge, said table adapted to be slidingly inserted and received in said table holder with said platform overlying said table holder bottom surface and with said platform side rails in juxtaposition with adjacent table holder side wall surfaces with the bottom edges of said side rails in sliding engagement with the top surface of said table holder bottom surface whereby said table is reciprocally slidable in a telescopic manner from a position overlying said table holder bottom surface to a position projecting forwardly thereof; and means on said table holder and cooperating means on said platform operative to limit the forwardmost projection of said table relative to said table holder.