Bilevel student activity table

Claim 1

A table comprising: a base; support means for supporting said base on a floor; a table top above said base; first and second pivoting supports mounted to said base for pivotal movement between a lowered position in which said table top is supported by said base, and a raised position in which said table top is supported on said pivoting supports; spring slat means fixed to said base for biasing said pivoting supports toward said lowered position and engageable with sid supports in the raised position for releasably latching the same in the raised position; first and second sliding track means respectively interconnecting the distal ends of said pivoting supports with said table top each track means comprising a bracket mounted to the underside of said table top for defining a track of a length determined by the travel of its associated pivoting support between the raised and lowered positions; and a slide member on each pivoting support received in an associated track, whereby when the table top is lifted relative to said base, said slide members slide within their associated tracks and rotate their associated pivoting supports to the raised position such that each of said slide members engages one end of its associated track when said table top is in the raised position and engages the other end of said associated track when said table top is in the lowered position, whereby said tracks alone limit the motion of said slide members; and characterized in that when said pivoting supports are in the raised position, they are inclined upwardly and inwardly relative to said base, thereby to form a stable trapezoidal shape with said base and said table top, and said pivoting supports are latched in said raised position and the associated slide members are at the outboard limits of their associated tracks for stabilizing said table top against end-wise movement relative to said base in said raised and lowered positions.