Other Uses
This term may also refer to corner cabinets on which the shelves are mounted on a vertical axle such that items may be retrieved by pushing on the shelves to turn them. This type is usually found in kitchens. When closed, this type of Lazy Susan appears to be two normal cabinets at right angles to each other. When pushed on, the cabinet 'doors' reveal the shelves, which are circular except for the ninety degree cut-out where the doors are mounted.
Lazy Susan is also used to describe any type of small, hand-rotated flat platform, e.g. a rotating spice rack for a kitchen cabinet, a rotating TV/monitor platform, a rotating platform used to aid manual tasks like sculpture, model building, electronics repair and fabrication, etc.. A larger or motor-operated rotating platform is typically referred to as a turntable.
In the context of maintenance engineering, the term Lazy Susan may also be used to describe a device designed to aid artisans in manual activities as a way of avoiding Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMDs). The term is also used in a military context to refer to manually or electronically operated weapons turntables.
In the 1982 Disney Film Herbie Goes Bananas, a lazy susan-style chassis was constructed for Herbie #14 which allowed the vehicle to rotate in a 360° turnstile during the film's bullfighting sequence.
Certain editions of the table-top game Scrabble include a Lazy Susan in the base to facilitate turning the board to face each player.
A Lazy Susan featured as the railway turntable in the British children's television show Thomas the Tank Engine (1979).
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