Patent ID: 7337701

Claim:
A sliding table for a workbench comprising: a bed having means for attachment to a workbench; a carriage movable relative to said bed; a slider movable relative to said carriage and having means for supporting a piece of work; means interconnecting said bed, said carriage and said slider and arranged and constructed to cause said carriage to move as said slider moves, wherein said interconnecting means is arranged and constructed such that for a given distance traveled by said slider, said carriage travels a lesser distance, wherein each of said bed and said slider is provided with a rail along which said carriage rolls and a pair of spaced apart end walls, said sliding table further including a pulley rotatable relative to said carriage and a pair of cables, each said cable connected to and extending from a point on said bed at or adjacent to its said end wall, around said pulley and continuing to and connected to a second said point on said slider at or adjacent to its said end wall.