Stand-alone enclosure

A stand-alone private space enclosure configured and sized to allow a human to both sit and stand within it, wherein the stand-alone private space enclosure comprises:

• a main frame comprising a rear wall;
• a first side wall having a first side wall base support, a first interior space facing panel and a first exterior facing panel spaced apart from one another and defining a first side wall cavity;
• a second side wall;
• a top wall;
• and a floor;
• wherein the floor is engaged to a front wall, the rear wall, the first side and the second side and the top wall is engaged to the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall and the second side wall;
• and wherein the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall, the second side wall, the top wall and the floor define an interior workspace;
• a door that is hingedly engaged to the first side wall or the second side wall by one or more hinges;
• wherein the door is operable by hand and without the use of tools to allow a user ingress and egress from the interior workspace;
• a moveable workstation assembly that is moveable and positionable as an overall assembly between an upmost position and a downmost position and any use location between the upmost position and the downmost position and wherein the use location is based upon the height of the user, user instructions received from the user via a user input device or both, wherein the moveable workstation assembly comprises:
• a moveable workstation frame that includes:
• a left side vertical support;
• a right side vertical support opposite the left side vertical support;
• a horizontally extending bottom support affixed to or integrally formed with the left side vertical support and the right side vertical support;
• a horizontally extending strengthening support affixed to or integrally formed with and extending between about a center portion of the left side vertical support and about a center portion of the right side vertical support;
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• a horizontally extending display mounting support spaced above the horizontally extending strengthening support and affixed to or integrally formed with and extending between the left side vertical support and the right side vertical support;
• a video display monitor engaged to the horizontally extending display mounting support such that the video display monitor faces the interior workspace;
• a façade covering that hides the entire moveable workstation frame and any aperture in the first interior space facing panel that are proximate or within a boundary defined by the moveable workstation frame regardless of the position of the moveable workstation assembly between the upmost position and the downmost position;
• a first desk support rod having a desk engaging end portion and an opposite end portion wherein the first desk support rod extends through the façade covering and engages the left side vertical support of the moveable workstation frame;
• a second desk support rod having a desk engaging end portion and an opposite end portion wherein the second desk support rod extends through the façade covering and engages right side vertical support of the moveable workstation frame;
• a desk having a first desk support rod receiving aperture on a first side wall facing surface of the desk and extending into an interior of the desk;
• and a second desk support rod receiving aperture on the first side wall facing surface of the desk and extending into an interior of the desk wherein the first desk support rod receiving aperture is left of a center of the first side wall facing surface of the desk and the second desk support rod receiving aperture is right of the center of the first side wall facing surface of the desk and wherein the first desk support rod's desk engaging portion is within the first desk support rod receiving aperture and wherein the second desk support rod's desk engaging portion is within the second desk support rod receiving aperture;
• a vertically oriented actuator positioned within the first side wall cavity;
• engaged with the first side wall and the moveable workstation frame;
• and configured to move the moveable workstation assembly as a unit between an upmost position and a downmost position and to any use location between the upmost position and the downmost position and to maintain the position of the moveable workstation assembly in a user selected position;
• and wherein the vertically oriented actuator comprises a screw stepper motor system that is mounted to a central support engaged with and extending from the left side of the first side wall and into engagement with the right side of the first side wall;
• and wherein the central support interconnects the first side wall and the second side wall within the middle fifty percent of the overall height of the first side wall and the second side wall and the central support is at least substantially parallel to the floor;
• and wherein the screw stepper motor system comprises a screw stepper motor, a screw stepper drive shaft, a potentiometer and a mounting bracket that is engaged to the moveable workstation frame.

A stand-alone private space enclosure configured and sized to allow a human to both sit and stand within it, wherein the stand-alone private space enclosure comprises:

• a main frame comprising a rear wall;
• a first side wall having a first side wall base support, a first interior space facing panel and a first exterior facing panel spaced apart from one another and defining a first side wall cavity;
• a second side wall;
• a top wall;
• and a floor;
• wherein the floor is engaged to a front wall, the rear wall, the first side and the second side and the top wall is engaged to the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall and the second side wall;
• and wherein the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall, the second side wall, the top wall and the floor define an interior workspace;
• a door that is hingedly engaged to the first side wall or the second side wall by one or more hinges;
• wherein the door is operable by hand and without the use of tools to allow a user ingress and egress from the interior workspace;
• a moveable workstation assembly that is moveable and positionable as an overall assembly between an upmost position and a downmost position and any use location between the upmost position and the downmost position and wherein the use location is based upon the height of the user, user instructions received from the user via a user input device or both, wherein the moveable workstation assembly comprises:
• a moveable workstation frame that includes:
• a left side vertical support;
• a right side vertical support opposite the left side vertical support;
• a horizontally extending bottom support affixed to or integrally formed with the left side vertical support and the right side vertical support;
• a horizontally extending strengthening support affixed to or integrally formed with and extending between about a center portion of the left side vertical support and about a center portion of the right side vertical support;
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• a horizontally extending display mounting support spaced above the horizontally extending strengthening support and affixed to or integrally formed with and extending between the left side vertical support and the right side vertical support;
• a video display monitor engaged to the horizontally extending display mounting support such that the video display monitor faces the interior workspace;
• a façade covering that hides the entire moveable workstation frame and any aperture in the first interior space facing panel that are proximate or within a boundary defined by the moveable workstation frame regardless of the position of the moveable workstation assembly between the upmost position and the downmost position;
• a first desk support rod having a desk engaging end portion and an opposite end portion wherein the first desk support rod extends through the façade covering and engages the left side vertical support of the moveable workstation frame;
• a second desk support rod having a desk engaging end portion and an opposite end portion wherein the second desk support rod extends through the façade covering and engages right side vertical support of the moveable workstation frame;
• a desk having a first desk support rod receiving aperture on a first side wall facing surface of the desk and extending into an interior of the desk;
• and a second desk support rod receiving aperture on the first side wall facing surface of the desk and extending into an interior of the desk wherein the first desk support rod receiving aperture is left of a center of the first side wall facing surface of the desk and the second desk support rod receiving aperture is right of the center of the first side wall facing surface of the desk and wherein the first desk support rod's desk engaging portion is within the first desk support rod receiving aperture and wherein the second desk support rod's desk engaging portion is within the second desk support rod receiving aperture;
• wherein the stand-alone private space enclosure further comprises a vertically oriented actuator positioned within the first side wall cavity;
• engaged with the first side wall and the moveable workstation frame;
• and configured to move the moveable workstation assembly as a unit between an upmost position and a downmost position and to any use location between the upmost position and the downmost position and to maintain the position of the moveable workstation assembly in a user selected position;
• and wherein the vertically oriented actuator comprises a screw stepper motor system that is mounted to a central support that is welded to the left side of the first side wall and the right side of the first side wall wherein the central support interconnects the first side wall and the second side wall within the middle fifty percent of the overall height of the first side wall and the second side wall and the central support is at least substantially parallel to the floor;
• and wherein the screw stepper motor system comprises a screw stepper motor, a screw stepper drive shaft, a potentiometer and a mounting bracket that is engaged to the moveable workstation frame;
• wherein the moveable workstation assembly only engages the first side wall through its connection with the vertically oriented actuator and by a connection of the moveable workstation frame to a guide rail and a ball bearing carriage assembly system on each side of the moveable workstation frame where ball bearing carriages are mounted to first side wall and a corresponding guide rail that engages the ball bearing carriages is mounted to the left side vertical support and the right side vertical support;
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• wherein the moveable workstation assembly further comprises a camera and a microphone mounted solely to a non-user facing surface of the façade covering that does not face the user during use and wherein the camera and the microphone are spaced above the video display monitor, behind the façade covering, but the camera is allowed to view the interior workspace through a camera aperture proximate the top and center of the façade covering.