Height-adjustable table

Claim 1

A height-adjustable table comprising: a table top; at least one leg connected to said table top; said leg having two vertical outer tubular elements connected by a stay and two vertical inner tubular elements positioned within said outer tubular elements so as to be telescopically displaceable in a downward direction relative to said outer tubular elements; said leg further having an arresting and clamping mechanism for adjusting and arresting a position of said inner tubular elements relative to said outer tubular elements: a horizontal support connected to a bottom end of said inner tubular elements; said arresting and clamping mechanism positioned within an area of said stay and comprising two arresting and clamping lugs and a common actuating member for simultaneously adjusting in opposite directions perpendicular to said vertically extending outer and inner tubular elements said arresting and clamping lugs; said arresting and clamping mechanism further comprising two first threaded elements and two second threaded elements, said second threaded elements cooperating with said first threaded elements; said first threaded elements connected to opposite sides of said actuating member; one said first threaded element having a left-hand thread and the other said first threaded element having a right-hand thread; and said arresting and clamping lugs connected to said second threaded elements so as to be displaced in a linear direction of threading of said second threaded elements.