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US 10,327,544 B2Granted
Adjustable ergonomic workstation
AssigneeKnape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
InventorNicholas Leonard Blackburn
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Abstract
This disclosure provides an adjustable ergonomic workstation that includes first platform and a second platform that is coupled to and positioned below the first platform, wherein the first platform may be moved between at least a lowered position and a first raised position and wherein the coupling of the second platform to the first platform includes a tilt adjustment assembly wherein the second platform may be adjusted between at least a first angular position and a second angular position relative to the first platform.
Claims11
An adjustable ergonomic workstation comprising:
- a base, a leg assembly, a first platform and a second platform;
- the leg assembly being coupled to and extending between the base and the first platform, and being adjustable to move the first platform between at least a lowered position and a first raised position;
- the second platform being coupled to and positioned below the first platform;
- the coupling of the second platform to the first platform including a tilt adjustment assembly wherein the second platform is adjustable between at least a first angular position and a second angular position relative to the first platform;
- the tilt adjustment assembly including two pair of upper and lower brackets, with each upper bracket connected to the first platform, and each lower bracket connected to the second platform proximate a rear portion of an opposed side of the second platform;
- wherein at least one of the upper brackets and at least one of the lower brackets are pivotally coupled to each other about a pivot that is in a fixed location relative to the first and second platforms and that is spaced from a clamping mechanism by which the at least one of the upper brackets is held in a selected position relative to the at least one of the lower brackets so as to hold the lower platform at a selected angle relative to the upper platform;
- wherein the leg assembly further comprises two pair of legs coupled to the base and to the platform, wherein each pair of legs includes a forward leg and a rearward leg;
- wherein the first platform includes spaced apart mounting brackets, and each leg of each pair of legs is pivotally coupled at an upper end to one of the mounting brackets of the first platform and is pivotally coupled to a stabilizer bracket, and the stabilizer bracket is separately pivotally coupled to the same respective mounting bracket of the first platform;
- wherein an upper surface of the first platform generally comprises a first planar surface and an upper surface of the second platform generally comprises a second planar surface, and the at least first and second angular positions of the second platform include a first position in which the second planar surface is parallel to the first planar surface, and a second position in which the second planar surface has a forward angle relative to the first planar surface;
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- wherein the tilt adjustment assembly is adjustable to at least a third angular position of the second platform in which the second planar surface has a rearward angle relative to the first planar surface.
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