After work today I tested a concept I thought of recently. It possibly
solves a problem posed by Sally Schneider on her website, The Improvised Life.* Sally wrote a post about the folding mechanism of chairs and
tables by Roger Tallon.
She
went looking for the hardware and couldn't find it, so has been
seeking a viable substitute.
It might be possible to do the job with
a plain old butt hinge, but doing that gracefully and attractively is
fairly difficult. So I mulled it over in my daydreaming time, and
came up with