CAMP PORTABLE FOLDING TABLE Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A47B3/10 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: camp portable folding table is designed to be used in field conditions, including in long hiking tours, geological and other expeditions where weight and size of equipment is of particular importance. It has the surface of the table with the rigid portions and flexible cloth in the working position with minimum sizes and weight of the table in the hiking position. It can be used for picnics with a different number of participants, which may be unlimited, and depends on the configuration of the table by the number of identical basic elements, and the size and weight of the table in the folded, hiking position is not increased significantly. Essence of the invention: the base element of the table is taken as a set of identical thin metal sheets forming a hard table circuit for stable, horizontal placement on it of objects of hiking dishes with liquid food, and a fastener of flexible table cloth. The ends of the sheets are made at angles of 30º to the longitudinal axis of the sheet for assembly of tables of various sizes. The longitudinal edges of the sheets are bent at a right angle to the sides opposite to each other for rigidity of sheets and compactness of laying them in the hiking position of the table. The sheets are assembled together in a circuit using three identical openings formed at the ends of the sheets with simultaneous installation of the table racks and fastener of the flexible cloth, on which the items are placed, that do not require a stable horizontal position. In the hiking position, the table is folded into two compact packets.

EFFECT: enhanced usability, reliability, compactness.

2 cl, 10 dwg