There have been numerous drill press designs that have utilized tables that
are raised instead of spindles that are lowered.

Dumore still uses a moving table on their 16 Series sensitive drill press,
although there is a handwheel with a rank and pinion (instead of a lever).
http://www.dumorecorp.com/drills.htm#16

Dumore has used this same technique for decades on their small drill
presses, but these models aren't belt driven. There may have been a Dumore
model from the 1920s that was belt driven, but a very light-duty machine.

Other models I've seen that used levers to rise the tables, were mostly home
shop handyman or hobbiest level drill presses from around the '40s or '50s..
the kinds that would most likely have been advertised in the back sections
of handy-type magazines.
I think the concept my have led to the lever-type designs where an electric
drill motor was attached to the mechanism to create an improvised drill
press from a handheld drill motor.

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"RoyJ" wrote in message
m...
I've seen those drills with the motor mounted flat to the bench. In this
case, it could have been mounted off the head stock end of a lathe, use
one motor to drive both.

The thing that caught my eye is the fact that the spindle does not move:
the table is raised to bring the material up to the drill instead of down
into the material.

ghb624 wrote:
Below is the link to a photo of a simple little drill press which I
inherited. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghb624/3520129877/