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I started to design the appearance of the furniture’ legs because the legs are the part that will make the chair or table be adjustable in height Then | did a research about the mechanism of the general adjustable-height chairs and tables in order to apply and adapt to my design, but this existing mechanism limits the range of adjustment of the furniture. Therefore, the new mechanism that | came up with can finally solve the aforementioned problem by increasing the range of adjustment of the furniture. This mechanism also allows a s! htly change appearance of the furniture and provides a neat and beautiful looking of the furniture with no effort of the user. The furniture uses a torsion spring to lock itself. Take a cloth clipper as an example to imagine the mechanism of the torsion spring. The torsion spring can be adjusted its position and locked in the decided position by obstructing the clippers with some object since its free position is "close." I designed to use a tangential type one that has a free position at about 210 degree, so that it can flick to its free position fitting into the slots inside the outer fixed legs in order to provide locking system. Since both legs of the torsion spring can be flicked, the upper leg of the torsion spring must be fixed. To solve this, | designed to cover the torsion spring with tiny metal swivel plate, which will be impaled to the moving leg with shaft, providing neatness looking because the torsion spring part of the mechanism cannot be seen anymore. Also, since the torsion spring has a left wind direction, the lower leg of the torsion spring can be torqued to the left to create a straight angle in order for it to be movable along the furniture’s leg for height adjustment. However, the users cannot simply push the moving legs down because the torsion spring cannot be torqued any further due to its free position at only about 210 degree. Instead, the pushing arm has to be pressed in order to release the torsion spring out from the slot

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