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Kyle looks over the plans in preparation to build a Rosemont Table.
Rosemont Mechanism
This mechanism goes by a large number of different names, including Dutch pull-out, refectory ends, and many others. It has been around for a couple of hundred years, and my hat goes off to the unknown genius who invented it, for it is simple, elegant, easy to use, and easy to make. Briefly, it works like this: There are two tops. The main top rests upon the sub-top and leaves. The leaves have tapered supports attached to their undersides. When they are pulled out from under the main top, they start to rise up. The main top lifts up to let them out. When the leaves are pulled all the way out, they are at a height level with the main top. Once they are pulled out a little farther, the main top drops back down and rests on the subtop, and the leaves can be pushed back until they mate perfectly with the main top.
A closed Rosemont Table.
Both leaves open, main top on. The inner edge of the leaves exactly matches the edge of the main top for a perfectly level top. The leaves operate independently - you may open one or both in any order.
A Rosemont table with main top off. The leaves are in their closed position and the tapered supports are visible in the center of the table.
Now the leaves have been pulled out. The supports rest against the edge of the sub-top.
