Tilt top table hardware

Claim 1

In a table of the type having a table top supported on a table base, the combination comprising a first member fixedly secured to the top of said table base, said first member having a planar top surface, and a bottom surface, a second member fixedly secured to the bottom of said table top and adapted to rest, when in a horizontal position, on said first member with the bottom surface of said second member in juxtaposition with the top surface of said first member, at least one elongated slot in said first member, at least one tongue extending from one edge of said second member and dimensioned to extend through said slot, a first section of said tongue depending through said slot when said second member is in a horizontal position resting on said first member, a second section of said tongue adjacent to said first section and extending laterally from said first section in proximity with said bottom surface of said first member when said second member is in said horizontal position resting on said first member, a third section of said tongue adjacent to said second section and extending laterally from said second section, when said second member is tilted from the horizontal through an angle greater than ninety degrees said first section rests on said top surface of said first member, said second section depends through said slot and said third section extends beneath and in abutment with said bottom surface of said first member.