Folding table

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A folding table is a table with legs that fold up against the table top. This is intended to make storage more convenient and to make the table more portable.

Contents [hide] 1 Description 1.1 Folding mechanism 1.2 Uses 2 Styles 2.1 Card table 2.2 General use table 2.3 Banquet table 2.4 Personal table 2.5 Folding picnic table 2.6 Ironing board 3 History 4 References

Description

Folding tables are produced in many sizes, configurations, and designs. They can be made from plastic, metal, wood, and other materials.

Folding mechanism

Folding tables fold by having legs that bend on a hinge located at the connection point between the table top and the leg. The leg is designed to fold and fit securely against the underside of the table top, while remaining attached.

Uses

Folding tables are used in homes, schools, churches, and other buildings that have rooms intended for various functions. Folding tables can be used for sit-down activities, and then easily removed and stored out of the way when open space is needed.

Styles

Card table

A card table is usually a square table with legs that fold up individually, with one leg lining each edge. Card tables are traditionally used for playing card games, Board games, and other tabletop games.

General use table

Rectangle, square, and round folding tables are designed for general home and office uses.

Banquet table

Banquet tables are traditionally used by restaurants and caterers for setting up temporary buffets. They are also popular among retailers and vendors at trade shows for displaying products, and for use as temporary desks.

Personal table

A personal table, also called a TV tray, is a small table designed to be used by only one person at a time. They are popular for dining while watching television, or for working on small projects. Students often use personal tables for doing homework.^[1]

Folding picnic table

A folding picnic table has built-in seats that fold up along with the legs. They are used commonly in school cafeterias and in the backyards of homes

roning board

An ironing board is a small, portable, folding table with a heat resistant top that is used for ironing clothes.

A 1950s folding table

Personal table or TV tray

Folding ironing board

Modern folding table

History

A 16th century English folding table

The history of the folding table may date back as far as ancient Egypt. By the Colonial and Victorian eras, the tables were common.^[2]
During the 20th century, folding tables became an inexpensive item manufactured and sold in large quantities.
In the 1940s, Durham Manufacturing Company was marketing a basic model,^[3] while in the 1950s and 1960s, Falco^[4] and Samsonite^[5] tables were popular.
The 1980s showed the emergence of Chinese government-owned COSCO.^[6]
In the 1990s and 2000s, American manufacturer Lifetime Products became the world's largest producer of folding tables

Analogion

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Three analogia, covered with gold cloth.
(Saint Nicholas monastery, Gomel, Belarus).

An Analogion (Greek: Άναλόγιον) is a lectern or slanted stand on which icons, the Gospel Book or are placed for veneration by the faithful in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches. It may also be used as a lectern to read from liturgical books during the divine services.^[1]

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• 1 Design
• 2 Use
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 See also
• 6 External links

• Design

  

  

  Analogion, vested in white, at Valamo Monastery, Finland.
  The analogion is normally slanted slightly, to make it easer for the one standing in front of it to see the icon or book laid on it. The analogion may have four legs or only one in the center. It is often overed with rich cloth (antipendia) which either partially or completely covers the analogion on all sides. Some analogia are made made so they fold for easy portability, some are intricately carved of fine wood, and some are simple framework intended to be completely covered with cloth. They are normally light enough to be moved without too much difficulty.
  
  

  

  Kliros with analogia for liturgical books.
  There is also a type of analogion which is used in the kliros by the chanters. This often has two or three sides and turns to allow the singers to more easily use the numerous liturgical texts required during the services.
  There is an older Greek design for this type of analogion that is octagonal with a flat top instead of slanted. This style is still found in use on Mount Athos and at other ancient monasteries throughout the world. Sometimes this type of analogion is intricately inlaid with mother of pearl or other semi-precious materials.
  A similar piece of furniture is called the tetrapodion which is a table which can be set in the center of the church, usually covered with a cloth, and upon which objects are placed to be blessed.
  

  Use

  

  

  Russian Orthodox Church in Seldovia, Alaska.
  Analogia are used for the veneration of icons, usually with a candlestand beside or behind it, or an oil lamp burning above it. The candlestand may hold one candle and be used to shine light on the icon, or it may have places for the faithful to offer candles as they venerate the icon.
  On higher-ranking feasts of the church year, when the chanting of the Polyeleos is called for, an analogion is placed in the center of the temple (i.e., the nave of the church) with candles, and the icon of the feast being celebrated is placed thereon. At the highpoint of the service, all of the lights in the church are lit and the clergy and people gather around the icon on the analogion in the center of the temple for the chanting of fetive hymns and the reading of the Matins Gospel lesson.
  During the Divine Liturgy an analogion is placed in front of the Holy Doors for the reading of the Gospel and altar servers will stand to either side with processional candles. If a deacon is reading the Gospel, the analogion will be set so that he faces East (towards the Altar) as he reads; if a priest is reading, the analogion will be set so that he faces West (towards the people).
  When a priest or bishop hears Confession, he will do so standing beside an analogion on which has been placed a Gospel Book and a Cross. The penitent will venerate the Gospel and Cross and then kneel before the analogion, holding his right hand in the manner of making the Sign of the Cross and touching the foot of the Cross while making his confession.