Woodworking – Workbench
Patent
1980-12-03
1983-03-08
Bray, W. D.
Woodworking
Workbench
269253, B25H 100
Patent
active
043758274
ABSTRACT:
An improved workbench table top cut away at a corner to provide a rectangular rabbet, and having an extension arm extending across the corner below the top surface of the table. A U-shaped clamping member includes an elongated arm adjoining outer and inner legs, and is disposed in a plane parallel to the table top around the extension arm. The extension arm includes a hole spaced from its end. A brace bar of similar but slightly smaller dimensional cross-section as the hole joins the legs through the hole. A conventional adjustment means such as a screw is utilized to adjust the clamping member relative to the extension arm along an axis of adjustment. Narrow extensions in the elongated arm are fitted in cooperatively shaped slots in abutting portions of the legs, and pins extend orthogonally through the legs and arm extensions. A first rail extends from the extension arm across the rabbet and is fixed to the opposite side thereof, and is disposed against and in sliding contact with the brace bar. The elongated arm is disposed against and in sliding contact with the end of the extension arm, whereby the clamping member is held in lateral position relative to the table top but is slidable along the axis of movement. The inner leg is also preferably notched. A second rail extends from the extension arm across the rabbet to the opposite side thereof. The first rail is preferably fixed to and runs parallel to the lower surface of the second rail. The notch in the inner leg is cooperatively shaped to the cross-section of the first and second rails. The surface of the inner leg in the notch bears against and is in sliding contact with the first and second rails in a plane parallel to the plane of sliding contact between the elongated arm and the end of the extension arm. This structure has been found to provide substantially increased resistance to distortion and looseness caused by wear, while assuring smooth operation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1508979 (1924-09-01), Keller
patent: 1574528 (1926-02-01), Youngman et al.
patent: 1673139 (1928-06-01), Brown
Bray W. D.
Pascal Edward E.
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