A SCHOOL DESK & EASEL COMBINED FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS COLLEGES & FOR SCHOOLS OF ART STUDIO PURPOSES
Year: 1885

page_text: JOHN GOUGH 49 Vincent Street, Balsall Heath Birmingham Curator School of
Art, Birmingham do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A SCHOOL
DESK & EASEL COMBINED FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS COLLEGES & FOR SCHOOLS OF
ART STUDIO PURPOSES to be as follows:-
A school desk or easel which can be adjusted to any angle of Inclination for
Drawing, Modelling Painting Reading or writing purposes. The position of the
angle being fixed by a screw & Grip action by a pair of teeth wheels with screw
as shewn in sketch. The desk or easel can be raised or lowered in height by
means of a groove cut in upright stand fastened by a thumb screw, also a sliding
action is arranged at the back of the movable or revolving board for the purpose of
securing the Drawing board or canvas in position.
The supports or upright stands to be made either in wood or iron and the
revolving desk to be made in wood or iron with grooves either side so that a Board
or canvass may be inserted or pulled out at pleasure,

page_text: JOHN GOUGH, 79 Vincent Street Balsall Heath Birmingham Curator at School
of Art Margaret Street Birmingham I do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for A SCHOOL DESK & EASEL COMBINED and having as described in my original
Statement in February last with the additional wording viz,-The top of the Desk
to work with or without a rack movement, to raise or lower at will, instead of in
the legs (as original or provisional specification),
1. The features of this Desk & Easel combined are that it can be adjusted in
any position by the application of a screw movement at the side as described in
provisional Specification and can be adjusted to any angle or height at will by the
operator.
2. It can be used to make a table so that objects may be placed upon, or do any
work where a flat surface is required, as well as for an easel or desk.
3. That it is perfectly noiseless and being adjusted at any angle, it relieves the
students from working on a table &c where if he remained would be injurious to
his health. In this desk & easel the position of the student can allways be nearly
upright.
The Invention is a desk and easel combined for the purpose of giving the
student or person the advantage of having his desk or easel in any position or
angle he wishes by the action of a Screw and Grip movement (Fig. 1) which is
fastened partly to the right hand side upright and part to the Desk-The top of
the desk moves on a pivot on the left hand side support or upright and on the
right hand side by the Screw & Grip action or movement This movement consists
of two teeth of wheels, when these wheels are screwed up they keep the desk in a
rigid position, when unscrewed they leave the top of the desk loose and it can be
adjusted at the will of the operator in any angle or position to be again screwed
up. An adjustable slide is fixed at the front of the desk, at the top, for the
purpose of securing a board or canvass when placed in a vertical position. The top
of the desk is also constructed with a rack movement (Fig. 2) to adjust the height
of the canvass &c. The top of the desk works in two grooves supported by frame
work the rack is put in the middle of this frame work and can be raised or lowered
at will by pulling a spring, lateli.
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
1st That the Screw & Grip action as shewn on Drawing Fig. 1 is the distinct
feature & novelty of my said invention for a School Desk & Easel combined and
I claim that no other School desk or Easel has this movement or feature.