The main requirements to furniture – to be esthetic and functional. If you are engaged in production of self-made furniture, then you should resolve an issue of compliance to its parameters of future user. The functionality is shown that the product has to correspond to anthropometrical data of the person. How, for example, to calculate the table height that it was convenient and ergonomic?
Instruction
1. At design of a table consider anthropometrical signs and features of the structure of a human body. Sitting at a table, the person has to settle down conveniently, the position of a body has to be steady. At the wrong choice of height of a product the user will spend in addition 25-40% of energy, and in case of frequent use of such design various diseases can develop.
2. Define what has to be distance from a table cover before sitting. The person has to sit at a table without inclination, without raising a humeral belt. Forearms in the most ideal case have to be placed conveniently on a table cover.
3. If you do a table for yourself or the relatives, it is possible to calculate its height. For this purpose use standard ergonomic indicators. Average growth of the man in our country is about 165 cm, women – 156 cm; height of a standard table – 75 cm. In this case calculate height of a self-made table for the growth by a formula: Height of a self-made table = your growth * Height of a standard table / Standard growth; For example, with a height of man of 175 cm you receive result: 175 * 75/165 = 79.5 cm.
4. If it is about a standard table, anthropometrical data of the user are not known to you, choose height as such that the distance from a floor to the upper edge of a table-top was in limits of 72-75 cm.
5. The table for the school student has to have the features. For children aged up to 12 years make a cover of a table of an inclined plane, having executed an inclination at an angle of 12-15 degrees. It is important for the reason that at this age organs of vision are formed. At non-compliance with this requirement, diseases of eyes, for example, short-sightedness can develop.
6. Except table height for comfortable arrangement behind it chair height matters. Pick up a combination of a table and chair so that the convenient location of a body keeping a correct posture was provided. It is convenient to use a chair with the regulated height, in this case you can always adjust parameters to the specific user.