Laboratory bench for handicapped students

摘要

A laboratory bench for handicapped students, especially those occupying wheelchairs, includes a rectangular framework supported by rollers on the floor. The framework is covered with a top disposed above the floor high enough to be well above a wheelchair in part entering a chair opening defined between a couple of pedestals on the framework below the top. Situated in one of the pedestals is a sink disposed below an opening through the top, and situated in the pedestal below the sink is a waste tank. On the framework above the other pedestal and above the top is a draft hood situated on a bias to open toward the sink and toward a user occupying a chair in the chair opening. A draft exhaust system for the draft hood has a flexible discharge duct above the draft hood. Flexible hoses, wires and the like with appropriate connectors are secured to items on the bench and can connect to related devices in the surroundings. There are, in addition, drawers in the other pedestal arranged so that they cannot be pulled entirely out. Preferably there is a rack frame across the rear of the top of the bench to receive various chemical piping and the like.