Improvements in School Desks.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in School Desks.
I, THOMAS BLEZARD of Green Bank Foundry, Padiham, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists in the arrangement of adjustable bowls for the feet of
school desks or the like, so that when it is desired to remove the desks, the bowls
may be dropt and secured in position to raise the feet from the floor.
For this purpose a bracket, carrying the bowl, may be dropt and secured in position
by a catch, which takes into a sneck in the said bracket. When the catch is removed,
the bowl and bracket will then be forced back, to allow the feet to touch the floor.
The invention also consists of two friction plates, one having a semicircular recess,
V shaped in section, and the other provided with a rib to fit the said recess.
plates are drawn together by a bolt, to fix the movable table of the desk.
Dated this 15th day of September 1888.
Both
THOS. RICHMOND,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in School Desks.
I, THOMAS BLEZARD of Green Bank Foundry, Padiham, in the County of Lancaster,
Machinest, 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 is designed to render School Desks and like furnature capable of
being raised and automatically secured in an elevated position, to run upon wheels or
bowls for transportation from one place to another.
By a simple and ready contrivance the desk or like furnature is lowered upon its
feet, to bear firmly upon the floor, as an ordinary School Desk, on arriving at its
proper destination.
And in order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into practical effect, I have hereunto attached the accompanying sheet of drawings,
marked with figures and letters of reference, the same letters referring to the same
parts. Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 an end view of a School Desk with form,
constructed in accordance with my invention. A are the adjustable wheels or bowls
upon which the desk is represented as being mounted ready for transportation.
Each wheel or bowl revolves on a stud or pin secured to the bracket B, which
projects upwards through the slotted fixing C, attached by bolt D, to the desk
frame E. When raised bodily the desk is retained in an elevated position, by the
catch F abutting at J against the upper extremity of the slide bracket B carrying
wheel or bowl A; and to prevent the said bracket dropping from the fixing C the
pin H is provided to arrest the bracket B in the fixing immediately the catch F closes
over the upper extremity of the said bracket.
It will be obvious that when the upper end of the catch lever F pivotted on the pin or
stud G, is struck by the foot, the connection subsisting at J between the slide
bracket B and the lower extremity of the catch F, will be broken, allowing the feet of
the desk to bear against the floor, as in an ordinary school desk.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
In School Desks and like furnature, adjustable wheels or bowls A arranged sub-
stantially as described and illustrated for the purposes set forth.
Dated th: 15th of T1000
THOS. RICHMOND,
Agent for the Applicant.