Work table

• US 6,832,560 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2002
• Issued: 12/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sedus Stoll AG (Stoll Vita Stiftung)
• Original Assignee: Sedus Stoll AG (Stoll Vita Stiftung)
• Inventors: Pabst, Martin, Seiler, Mathias
• Primary Examiner(s): Mai, Lanna
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, HANH VAN
• Application Number:
  US10/054,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20030140822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,061 Days
• Field of Search: 108/6, 108/7, 108/8, 108/9, 108/50.01, 108/50.02, 108/50.14, 248/184.1, 248/129, 248/132, 248/122.1, 248/125.9, 248/918
• US Class Current: 108/7
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/00 Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards

Abstract

A work table includes a frame with a vertical central column as well as a base and a work surface, which is fastened to a support element. The height and angle of the work surface are adjustable. A joint seating device is provided on an upper end of the central column and a swivel arm is arranged in a pivoting manner about a horizontal axis of the joint seating device. The swivel arm contains another rotary joint, about whose horizontal axis the support element and the work surface connected with it are arranged in a pivoting manner.

Claims

1. A work table, comprising:

a frame with a vertical central column fastened to a base on a vertical central axis of the base and a height-adjustable and tilt-adjustable work surface, said work surface being fastened to a support element, a joint seating device is provided on an upper end of the vertical central column, a swivel arm is arranged in a pivoting manner about a horizontal axis of said joint seating device, the swivel arm contains a rotary joint, wherein the support element and the connected work surface are arranged in a pivoting manner about a horizontal axis of said rotary joint; and

a cable pull arranged for synchronous rotational coupling between the swivel arm and the support element such that the support element is aligned horizontally when the swivel arm is aligned vertically and the support element is tilted when the swivel arm is aligned horizontally.

2. The work table pursuant to claim 1, wherein on the central column a leg rest is arranged, which is fastened to the central column via a support fork.

3. The work table pursuant to claim 2, wherein the support fork is axially displaceable on the central column and can be rotated about the vertical axis.

4. The work table pursuant to claim 2, wherein the support fork can be rotated about the horizontal axis.

5. The work table pursuant to claim 1, wherein the swivel arm and the support element are seated in a continuously pivoting manner about the horizontal axes.

6. The work table pursuant to claim 1, wherein the synchronous relation between the rotation of the swivel arm and the rotation of the support element is designed in such a way that the support element is tilted by about 25°

when the swivel arm is aligned horizontally.

7. The work table pursuant to one of the claims 1 through 5 and 7, wherein in the swivel arm a blockable gas pressure spring is arranged, which on one hand is seated in a bearing at an angle beneath the joint seating device and on the other hand in a bearing roughly in the center of the swivel arm.

8. The work table pursuant to claim 7, wherein the gas pressure spring in an unblocked state has a gas spring thrust pressure, which compensates for inherent weights of the work surface, the support element and the swivel arm.

9. The work table pursuant to claim 1, wherein the base is equipped with swivel rollers.