Improvements in Convertible Combined Desks and Forms.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Convertible Combined Desks and Forms.
I, GEORGE WOOD, of 49, Clarendon Road, Leeds, in the County of York,
Schoolmaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct a school desk which can be readily
converted into a bench suitable for joinering or other purposes, the form or seat
being also arranged as a tool chest and support for the bench.
For the above purpose I provide a table or bench, supported on suitable standards,
and onto the back of this table is hinged the slope forming the desk, also the flat
part commonly used as a holder for ink stands. Below this flat part on the bench
is provided a box, running the whole length of such bench, which is intended to be
used as a receptacle for light tools and other instruments.
When the hinged slope is brought down onto the bench the whole appears like an
ordinary school desk.
The underneath part of the form or seat for the desk is converted into a cupboard
or chest for tools, and is hinged onto a longitudinal bar supported on standards.
corresponding with those of the bench or desk.
When the bench is required, the position of the seat or form is reversed by being
thrown over on its hinges, causing the cupboard or chest to come to the top, thus
forming not only a support for the front of the bench, but the cupboard or chest is
also brought into such a position that the tools therein contained can be readily got
at when required.
Dated this 5th day of December 1890.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Convertible Combined Desks and Forms.
I, GEORGE WOOD, of 49, Clarendon Road, Leeds, in the County of York,
Schoolmaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to construct a school desk which can be readily
converted into a bench suitable for joinering or other purposes, the form or seat
being also arranged as a tool chest and support for the bench.
In the accompanying drawings Figs. and 2 are respectively a side and
longitudinal elevation, shewing my improvements when arranged to be used as a
desk and form, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, shewing the same arranged as a
bench suitable for joinering or other purposes.
For the above purpose I provide a table A supported on suitable standards B.
On this table A, and at the back is provided and fixed a box C, continued the whole
length thereof, this being covered on the top by a hinged lid D. The ordinary
ink-wells or stands E are supported in the aforesaid box C, in bearings F, and
openings are provided in the lid D so that the ink can be got at when the apparatus
is used as a desk.
The slope G is hinged at each end of the box C through the medium of the side
pieces H and is so arranged that when in position as shewn at Figs. I and 2, the
lid D of the box C is held down and cannot be opened until the slope G is thrown
back as shewn at Fio. 3.

page_text: The aforesaid box C is intended to be used as a receptacle for light tools and
other instruments.
It will be seen that when the hinged slope G is brought down onto the bench A
as shewn at Figs. 1 and 2, the whole has the appearance and can be used as an
ordinary school desk.
Underneath the form or seat J is provided a cupboard K or chest for tools, this
along with the seat or form J is hinged onto a longitudinal bar or support L attached
to the standards M, such standards corresponding with those supporting the bench
or desk A.
When the bench is required, the position of the seat or form J is reversed by
being thrown over on its hinges N, causing the chest or cupboard K to come to the
top, as shewn at Fig. 3.
In this position it may not only form a support for the front of the bench, but
the cupboard or chest K is brought into such a position that the tools contained
therein may be readily got at when required. The chest or cupboard K is provided
with an opening P having suitable lid R.
The slope G when thrown back as shewn at Fig. 3, forms a very convenient place
for attaching drawings to be used by the operator.
It is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details or con-
figuration of parts, as the same may be variously modified without departing from
the distinctive features thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
A combined desk and form which may be converted respectively into a bench for
joinering or other purposes, and a tool chest or cupboard, arranged and operated
substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 27th day of February 1891.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicant.