EP0146206B1 - A platform support means - Google Patents

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EP0146206B1
EP0146206B1 EP84305754A EP84305754A EP0146206B1 EP 0146206 B1 EP0146206 B1 EP 0146206B1 EP 84305754 A EP84305754 A EP 84305754A EP 84305754 A EP84305754 A EP 84305754A EP 0146206 B1 EP0146206 B1 EP 0146206B1
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platform
mounting means
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Michael Cuffe
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Feltex Commercial Interiors Pty Ltd
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Codesign Pty Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
    • A47B21/03—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards with substantially horizontally extensible or adjustable parts other than drawers, e.g. leaves
    • A47B21/0314—Platforms for supporting office equipment
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C16/00—Stand-alone rests or supports for feet, legs, arms, back or head
    • A47C16/02—Footstools; Foot-rests; Leg-rests
    • A47C16/025—Footstools; Foot-rests; Leg-rests adjustable, swivelling, rocking
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
    • A47B21/03—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards with substantially horizontally extensible or adjustable parts other than drawers, e.g. leaves
    • A47B21/0314—Platforms for supporting office equipment
    • A47B2021/0321—Keyboard supports
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
    • A47B21/03—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards with substantially horizontally extensible or adjustable parts other than drawers, e.g. leaves
    • A47B21/0314—Platforms for supporting office equipment
    • A47B2021/0321—Keyboard supports
    • A47B2021/0335—Keyboard supports mounted under the worksurface
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B2210/00—General construction of drawers, guides and guide devices
    • A47B2210/15—Keyboard drawers

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  • This invention relates to platform support means of the kind used for the support of computer keyboards, type-writing machines, word processor keyboards and the like.
  • the invention is not confined to platform support means for mounting keyboards, but is applicable to any platform required to be adjustable as to elevation or tilt to suit a specific user of the platform.
  • the invention is applicable to such things as a foot-rest platform used by typists and others.
  • the invention will be described herein mainly in terms of adjustable platforms for the support of keyboard instruments of one kind or another.
  • US-A-3606,458 discloses a leg support stool having an adjustable height and inclination support platform (12, 16, 18) supported on fixed laterally extending pins (23, 24) adjustably positioned in grooved trackways provided in facing surfaces of two spaced apart vertical side members (26, 18).
  • Each trackway is made up of a plurality of finger like grooves each of the same length slightly inclined to the horizontal and superimposed directly one above another. One end of each finger like groove is closed and the other end opens into a vertically extending groove (30, 34, 38, 42).
  • This particular form of trackway construction has the result that when the platform is displaced, for readjustment purposes, along the finger like grooves, immediately the pins (23, 24) enter the vertical grooves (30, 34, 38, 42) the platform will drop vertically down to the bottom of the grooves (30, 34, 38, 42). This rapid, uncontrolled descent could cause pain to the legs of a user and would make this form of trackway construction unsuitable for use with a platform support means intended to support delicate mechanisms such as a typewriter or computer keyboard.
  • a platform mounting means comprising:
  • platform support frame 1 comprises a pair of sideboards 2, cross-bar 3 and rear member 4.
  • a platform ' 6 upon which the keyboard is mounted in conventional manner, is located between sideboards 2 being furnished with support elements in the form of freely rotatable front mounting rollers 6 and rear rollers 7.
  • rollers project into runway grooves 8 formed in the mutually-facing surfaces of sideboards 2.
  • Each of the runway grooves consists of a plurality of substantially horizontal portions or flights 9 arranged one above the other, closed at one end and opening at the other end into a substantially vertical or inclined portion 10.
  • Each portion or riser 10 opens into the portion or flight 9 immediately below it to form a step like way for the rollers 6, 7.
  • the platform is horizontal and at its lowermost elevation. If the platform is to be tilted so that its back is a little higher than its front, the platform is first drawn frontwardly and rear rollers may then be elevated by way of the lowermost riser and moved into the second lowermost flight (or some higher flight) while the front rollers are allowed to remain in the lowermost flight.
  • Such means may consist of a magnet 11 on the frame and a magnetisable plate 12 on the platform 5.
  • the blind or closed ends of the flights 9 may be shallowly notched to receive the rollers.
  • runway grooves 8 rather than being formed in the side boards 2, may be preformed in moulded plastic elements 13 which are attachable to, or recessed into the side boards 2.
  • flights 9 are inclined upwardly from their blind ends Also the open end of the flights include an upstanding retaining nipple 14, restraining the platform 5 from moving relative to support frame 1.
  • the risers 10 are disposed in a continuous inclined track 15, allowing multiple flight adjustments.

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EP84305754A 1983-08-23 1984-08-22 A platform support means Expired EP0146206B1 (en)

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AT84305754T ATE38135T1 (de) 1983-08-23 1984-08-22 Plattenhalterung.

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JP (1) JPS6091429A (enExample)
AT (1) ATE38135T1 (enExample)
DE (1) DE3474765D1 (enExample)
HK (1) HK98192A (enExample)
SG (1) SG41190G (enExample)

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AT387699B (de) * 1987-03-30 1989-02-27 Neudoerfler Moebel Tisch, vorzugsweise schreibtisch
DK119594A (da) * 1994-10-17 1996-04-18 Paul Bjerremand Buch Højdejusterbar fodstøtte
US5791259A (en) * 1997-04-04 1998-08-11 B & W Corporation Adjustable shelf support assembly computer work station
AU2003247324A1 (en) * 2002-05-10 2003-11-11 Arcelik A. S¸ A household appliance
JP5919502B2 (ja) * 2012-09-25 2016-05-18 パナソニックＩｐマネジメント株式会社 引出し構造

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JPS447396Y1 (enExample) * 1965-04-30 1969-03-20
US3606458A (en) * 1969-06-09 1971-09-20 Alvin J Attinger Leg supporting stool

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HK98192A (en) 1992-12-11
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SG41190G (en) 1990-08-03
EP0146206A1 (en) 1985-06-26
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