Keyboard tray with swinging height adjustment
AssigneeCKnapp Sales, Inc.
InventorBrandon Meyer
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Abstract
An adjustable keyboard tray includes a swinging support, the swinging support including a desk mount configured to secure the adjustable keyboard tray to a desktop, a keyboard platform mount, and a linkage coupled to the desk mount with a first pivot and coupled to the keyboard platform mount with a second pivot. The adjustable keyboard tray further includes a keyboard platform attached to the keyboard platform mount, the keyboard platform being swingable relative to the desk mount via the linkage between a retracted position relative to the desk mount and an outward position relative to the desk mount.
Claims25
An adjustable keyboard tray comprising:
- a swinging support, the swinging support including:
- a desk mount configured to secure the adjustable keyboard tray to a desktop;
- a keyboard platform mount;
- and
- a linkage coupled to the desk mount with a first pivot and coupled to the keyboard platform mount with a second pivot;
- a keyboard platform attached to the keyboard platform mount, the keyboard platform being swingable relative to the desk mount via the linkage between a retracted position relative to the desk mount and an outward position relative to the desk mount;
- and
- a position lock to fix a position setting of the linkage and keyboard platform mount relative to the desk mount,
- wherein the position lock includes an actuatable locking member configured to selectively engage any of a series of radially oriented teeth arranged about one of the pivots of the swinging support,
- wherein the series of radially oriented teeth include a first set of teeth with a clockwise inclination and a second set of teeth with a counterclockwise inclination.
An adjustable keyboard tray comprising:
- a swinging support, the swinging support including:
- a desk mount configured to secure the adjustable keyboard tray to a desktop;
- a keyboard platform mount;
- and
- a linkage coupled to the desk mount with a first pivot and coupled to the keyboard platform mount with a second pivot;
- a keyboard platform attached to the keyboard platform mount, the keyboard platform being swingable relative to the desk mount via the linkage between a retracted position relative to the desk mount and an outward position relative to the desk mount;
- and
- a position lock to fix a position setting of the linkage and keyboard platform mount relative to the desk mount,
- wherein the position lock includes a locking pin configured to selectively engage any of a series of radially oriented teeth, and
- wherein the locking pin extends through a slot in the desk mount and the series of radially oriented teeth are arranged about the second pivot.
A desktop assembly comprising:
- a desktop;
- and
- an adjustable keyboard tray, the adjustable keyboard tray including:
- a swinging support, the swinging support including:
- a desk mount securing the adjustable keyboard tray to the desktop;
- a keyboard platform mount;
- and
- a linkage coupled to the desk mount with a first pivot and coupled to the keyboard platform mount with a second pivot;
- a keyboard platform attached to the keyboard platform mount, the keyboard platform being swingable relative to the desk mount via the linkage between a retracted position relative to the desk mount and an outward position relative to the desk mount;
- and
- a position lock to fix a position setting of the linkage and keyboard platform mount relative to the desk mount,
- wherein the position lock includes an actuatable locking member configured to selectively engage any of a series of radially oriented teeth arranged about one of the pivots of the swinging support,
- wherein the series of radially oriented teeth include a first set of teeth with a clockwise inclination and a second set of teeth with a counterclockwise inclination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.