Highly portable table and seats with quickly able legs

Abstract

an especially useful and usable portable table and at least two seats all with detaching legs that store beneath their respective supported surfaces, the seats then fitting into the back of the table top, said table top forming the case in which all is carried. Also several means of attaching and detaching the legs, including a detachable leg with single peg twist locking into a specially modified leg receptacle, a detachable leg with recess and groove twist locking into a specially modified leg receptacle, a detachable leg with recess held by wedge into a specially modified leg receptacle. Both the individual tables, seats and table and seat sets, for added convenience, are boxlike and stackable.

1 - 23 . (canceled) 
     
     
         24 . a portable table and seat set such that the table forms a case which securely holds the seats and in which at least some if not all of the legs for said table and seats are detachable. 
     
     
         25 . a portable table and seats as in  claim 24  which is sized to be carried comfortably in one hand by one handle. 
     
     
         26 . a portable table and seats as in  claim 24  that in its disassembled and portable state stores comfortably on standard sized storage shelves or in smaller closets 
     
     
         27 . a portable table and/or seats that are together and/or separately boxlike and stackable and so able to rest comfortably and balance on any one side, and so also able to store in stacks and/or rows. 
     
     
         28 . a general means by which a table or seat leg may be quickly attached or released from table top or seat top. 
     
     
         29 . a means as in  claim 28  whereby a round leg has a peg or otherly shaped protrusion much like the bit of a key, such that when said leg is inserted into a leg receptacle, turning the leg works via its peg or protrusion to fix said leg inside said leg receptacle, or once fixed, to release it. 
     
     
         30 . a means as is  claim 29  in which the opening of the leg cavity in said leg receptacle resembles in appearance a traditional key hole with a primary hole for the leg itself and a secondary slot along the side of the hole, said slot resembling the part of the key hole designed to accommodate the key tooth or bit. 
     
     
         31 . a means as is  claim 29  whereby
 a) the part of the leg that enters the leg receptacle is rounded so as to enter leg receptacle and to turn in said receptacle once inserted. Said leg has a peg or other protrusion coming off the leg to catch inside a secondary recess in said leg receptacle, such that less than a single rotation locks the leg in said leg receptacle. 
 b) the leg receptacle has a leg hole to receive said leg and a secondary recess to accommodate the peg or protrusion. Said additional recess is shaped so as to allow the near full or full insertion of said leg into said leg receptacle. Said additional recess is also shaped such that when said leg is inserted into said leg receptacle and then turned, such turning works to fix said leg in said leg receptacle, or, once fixed, to unfix and allow the release of said leg from said leg receptacle. 
 
     
     
         32 . a means as is  claim 31  whereby the peg catch part of said secondary peg recess is set at a least possible pitch from the peg slot, so to effect the tightening of the leg with the least change in the amount of insertion. (thereby decreasing the effect of tortional forces to release the leg, and decreasing the strain on components.) 
     
     
         33 . a means as in  claim 31  whereby the grip between the leg via its peg or protrusion and the leg receptacle is improved by elongating the peg or protrusion or otherwise increasing the surface area of the frictional contact point between peg or protrusion and the additional or secondary recess. 
     
     
         34 . a means as in  claim 28  whereby
 a) the leg receptacle has a leg hole in it shaped to receive the leg 
 b) said leg receptacle has an interior ridge protruding into the leg hole and crossing said leg hole at an angle slightly shy of perpendicular. 
 c) a leg is shaped at one end with a recess such that said leg can pass said ridge so as to completely or near completely enter said leg receptacle. 
 d) a secondary recess also in the leg head is positioned to allow the turning of said leg in said leg receptacle, said secondary recess being positioned and shaped so as to effectively capture and fix and once fixed to release said leg in said leg receptacle via the grip between the ridge in the leg receptacle and the secondary recess in the leg. 
 
     
     
         35 . a means as is  claim 34  whereby the angle of the secondary recess is slight but sufficient so minimizing the effect of torsional forces on the leg to leg receptacle connection. 
     
     
         36 . a means as in  claim 34  whereby the shape of the secondary leg recess and said ledge in said leg receptacle maximizes the contact surface area between said secondary leg recess and said ledge, such that when said leg is turned inside said leg receptacle, the grip between leg and leg receptacle is improved. 
     
     
         37 . a means as in  claim 28  where by the leg is quickly attached and detached by means of an independently operated wedge. 
     
     
         38 . a leg and leg receptacle as in  claim 37  whereby
 a) said leg receptacle has a primary recess in it shaped to receive the leg head 
 b) said leg receptacle has a secondary recess to allow a wedge exterior to the receptacle to enter said receptacle and intrude on one side of the primary recess also called leg hole in said leg receptacle. 
 c) A recess on the side of said leg head is positioned to accommodate said wedge and to frictionally engage said leg and said leg receptacle. 
 d) removal of said wedge allows the release and complete removal of said leg from said leg receptacle. 
 
     
     
         39 . A means as in  claim 38  whereby the leg receptacle wedge is held to said leg receptacle via a chord, cable, string, thread, or line of some sort. 
     
     
         40 . A means as in  claim 37  whereby said wedge is movable inside said leg receptacle, but not removable. 
     
     
         41 . A means as in  claim 40  whereby the wedge has a slot in it so to accommodate a pin fixed to the leg receptacle and passing through said slot such that said wedge slides into and out of the leg hole in said leg receptacle so as to fix said leg in said leg receptacle and, once fixed to release it. 
     
     
         42 . a means as in  claim 41  whereby a secondary wedge also with a slot and sliding on the same pin, and also with its own wedge recess in said leg receptacle works as a fail safe to catch and to fix the position of the primary wedge in the leg receptacle.