Patent Publication Number: US-4926966-A

Title: Folding saw-horse

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     There are many different saw-horses. There are those that are fixed with respect to the back and legs and can be stacked. There are those that are knock-down for shipping and storage ,and some have pivoted legs for folding. This invention discloses improvements in the last category and in addition the legs may be taken from the back of the saw-horse, although a user will often do this, because of the ease of folding and storage without dismantling. 
     SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE 
     The present structure uses preferably a double back, i.e. two parallel spaced side-by-side 2&#34;×3&#34; or 2&#34;×4&#34; wooden pieces separated at each end by a part of the saw-horse leg device to attach the legs to the back of the saw-horse to support the same or to be folded upon the back for non-use storage position. Each such leg device is a fixed bracket member having means to secure a pair of legs to the back in inverted V relation and the bracket has no folding or pivoting parts in and of itself but can swing on the back by reason of the part of the leg device referred to above. Each bracket has means to fixedly attach two legs to the back, the legs being at an angle to each other and retaining the angular relation at all times. Thus when the legs in pairs are swung on the sawhorse back the legs remain in spread or V form. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     FIG. 1 is a view in side elevation showing the saw-horse set up for use in solid lines and folded for storage in dotted lines; 
     FIG. 2 is a bottom plan view showing the saw-horse folded; 
     FIG. 3 is a front view of a bracket; 
     FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view of a bracket as seen if FIG. 2, but on a larger scale; and 
     FIG. 5 is a view in side elevation of a bracket looking in the direction of arrow 5 in FIG. 4. 
    
    
     PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION 
     The saw-horse of this invention has a back or spine 10 preferably made of two like wooden member 12, 14, FIG. 2. These members are more or less as desired or convenient. but they are best parallel, elongated, and alike strips of wood and they are very slightly spaced by a flange 16 of bracket 18 which is swingably mounted between the members 12 and 14 as by a through bolt 20. There is a like bracket at each end or end area of the members 12, 14. Flange 16 of bracket 18 is of double thickness as here shown, due to bending of the sheet metal going to make up the brackets, but of course the brackets might be cast or made some other way eliminating the double construction. 
     From the flange 16, along part of one edge thereof, there extends two leg receptors 22, see particularly FIGS. 3-5. These receptors are fastened to legs 24 by any desired or convenient means and preferably comprise two plates 26, 28, each, these plates being at an angle to each other and providing for easy and quick assembly of legs 24. As shown, the brackets are each simply folded over from a single sheet of sheet metal and are immobile inter se, that is, there is no motion of any kind, between the parts of the brackets, which swing bodily on the back or spine 10 by bolts 20, between the set up useful position in solid lines in FIG. 1 and the showing in FIG. 2 and in dotted lines in FIG. 1 wherein the legs are swung into the back or spine 10, for storage. 
     The legs are fixed in pairs but may have additional braces 30 to maintain this condition. 
     The brackets may also include a fixed end plate for each leg, as shown at 34. This strengthens the brackets and makes them more rigid as well as protecting the leg ends.