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Serving as combined tighteners and stops, small wedges bradded underneath the leaves can be so placed that they will engage and lock the outer edges of the butterfly tops when they are open.
Fig. 2.40. Drawing an ellipse.
card and game tables
With contraction the watchword in many phases of modern living, the importance of the lowly folding card table has increased as necessity has found new uses for it. However, folding tables that have become rickety through use have always been regarded with disfavor even as card or game tables; when laden with china, typewriters or beverages, they are regarded as public menaces. The nonfolding type has some advantages over the folding kind.
Extending card table. Based upon its doubleduty possibilities, the table described below (see Figure 2.41) is built according to a sturdy, nonfolding design.
Except for the folding top, the construction of the table frame follows conventional design, with the legs offset J% in., the aprons being tenoned into mortises 1 in. deep in the tops of the table legs. The plywood bottom is screwed to rabbets in the underside of the aprons after the table tops are fastened in place.
Two identical tops are gluedup to form tops 30 in. wide. When dry, their opengrained ends are grooved to receive in. X 4 in. tenons cut on one edge of each end cleat, to prevent warping. Invisible link hinges join the two tops along uncleated edges.
Grooves sAe in. wide and Из in. deep are routed down the centers of the extension guides for a distance of 15 in.
, commencing 1 in. from one end. One guide is then screwed in place against the inside faces of an apron, between the leg extensions, as shown in A, Figure 2.41.
INDOOR FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION Lumber List
Pieces Thickness, in inches Width, in inches Length, in inches Description
6 У 10 28 Tops (30 in. wide)
4 Va гУ 30 Cleats
4 iH iVs 25У Legs
4 Va 27У Aprons
i Va 28% 28% Bottom
2 У 2У 25У Extension guides
2 У У 17 Extension cleats
Two 2od nails are hacked down to in. pins, and after their cut ends ar filed smooth are driven into the centers of the extension cleats, to a in. depti 1 in. from one end of each. The extension cleats are screwed to the underside о the lower top, parallel to its cleated edge, with the ends containing the nail pin 3in. back from the hinged edges of the table tops, when the latter's edges over hang their aprons by 1 in. The table can then be upended and the other extensior guide screwed in place, after which operation the bottom is screwed into its rabbet; along the bottom edge of the aprons. The corners of the bottom must be cui out for the legs.
The hinged edges of the top can be pushed back to expose a shallow receptacle for cards, poker chips, or plates and silverware. Pushed back until the extension cleats are stopped by the side apron, the upper top can be swung open to rest
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Fig. 2.41. Extending card table.
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upon the exposed half of the table frame, thus forming a refrectory table 60 in.