An Improved Work Bench.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Work Bench.
We, JAMES THOMAS. and GEORGE HERBERT KITCHIN, both of Highcliffe
Works, Winchester, in the County of Hants, Cabinet Makers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in work benches designed principally
for the purposes of technical education, and has for its object to provide a simple
and efficient means whereby a work-bench may be readily adjusted to various
heights according to the nature of the work to be done.
For example, for carpentry and for carving it is necessary that the bench top
should be at very different heights, and to enable this adjustment to be easily made,
the bench top, which is of the ordinary construction as used for carpentry; is made
separate from the supporting legs, the latter being framed together so as to form
an independent structure on which the bench top is supported by means of series of
shoulders or steps formed at various heights on the side cheeks of the bench top,
preferably on the inner surface thereof, in position to rest on the tops of the legs
which are made to it between the cheeks and are secured thereto by pins or other
means whereby they may be readily disconnected.
When the bench top is adjusted in the lowest position as used for carpentry, the
legs fit into grooves or between shoulders or other stops whereby end wise motion
of the bench top on the legs is prevented and the necessary rigidity of the bench
ensured.
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CML 1 1002
G. H. KITCHIN,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Work Bench.
We, JAMES THOMAS and GEORGE HERBERT KITCHIN both of Highcliffe
Works, Winchester, in the County of Hants, Cabinet Makers, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improvement in work-benches designed principally
for the purposes of technical education, and has for its object to provide a simple
and efficient means whereby a work-bench may be readily adjusted to various
heights according to the nature of the work to be done at it. For example, for
carpentry it is necessary that the bench top should be at a very different height to
that required for carving.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein
Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a work-bench adjusted to different
heights Figure 1 shewing the bench in the highest position, as for carving, and
Figure 2 in the lowest position, as for carpentry.
Figure 3 shews a detail perspective view of the means of adjustment.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
To enable the height of the bench to be easily varied, the bench top A which
is of the ordinary construction, as used for carpentry, is made separate from the

page_text: supporting legs B the latter being framed together by longitudinal and cross-
bars C C¹ so as to form an independent structure on which the bench top A is
supported by means of sets of stepped series of abutments or shoulders à d'a
provided at various heights within the side cheeks a of the bench top, in position to
rest on the tops of the legs B which are made to fit between the cheeks a and are
secured thereto by bolts or pins e or other means whereby they may be readily
disconnected. The abutment d of each set (which corresponds to the lowest
position of the bench) is formed by the bench top itself, the others are formed
on a block D screwed to the check u, as indicated in dotted lines in Figures 1
and 2 and shewn in detail in Figure 3 which is an inside face view of part of
one of the cheeks. The outer faces of the legs are flush with the outer faces
of the side cheeks a of the bench top; the legs being reduced in thickness at
the upper part, where they fit between the side cheeks, the reduced portion
terminating in a shoulder which fits into a notch on the edge of the side
cheek a, when the bench top is adjusted in the lowest position, as shewn in
Figure 2, in order to prevent end wise motion of the bench top on the legs and
ensure the necessary rigidity of the bench.
If these notches and shoulders be inclined as shewn, the inclination would be
opposite at opposite sides of a double bench and in such direction as to oppose
the vertical face of the notch to the endwise thrust of the work, in planing.
The shoulders and notches might, however, be square or otherwise shaped, so
as to obtain the same end.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
A work-bench having the legs framed separately from the top and having the
top adjustably supported thereon by stepped series of abutments affixed to the side
checks of the top and resting on the legs, substantially as specified.
Dated this 10th day of November 1805
J. THOMAS,
G. H. KITCHIN,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.