Modular supporting structure for tables, small tables, chairs and the like

Claim 1

A modular furniture support structure, comprising: a substantially vertically extending tubular column member; a first set of angularly spaced radially extending arm members lying in a first plane at an upper end of said column member; means for connecting said first set of arm members to said column member at said upper end of said column member; a second set of radially extending arm members lying in a second plane at the lower end of said column members; and second means connecting said second set of arm members to said column member at said lower end thereof, at least one of said connecting means including: a pair of clamping bodies each formed with a plurality of angularly spaced radially and axially open recesses registering with the recesses of the other body for receiving the respective arm members and clamping them between said bodies, each arm clamped between said bodies being tubular and having an extremity received in two registering recesses of said bodies, a screw traversing said bodies and anchored in said column member for drawing said bodies together to clamp said ends of the respective set of arm members removably between said bodies, and each of said ends is formed with a pair of cylindrical projections each provided with a circumferential groove and each of said recesses is cylindrical and said bodies are provided with pins extending radially into said recesses for engagement in said groove.