Modular partition

A modular partition panel wall of the type in which a panel is adapted to be associated with at least one other such panel to provide a self supporting free standing wall, and comprising at least two said panels, each of said panels having;

• a generally rectangular panel body portion having top and bottom edges and upright end edges at each end thereof having front and back faces;
• end connector members fastened along each said end edge of said panel extending from top to bottom thereof;
• and each said connector member having side edges coterminous with said front and back panel faces, and having inner and outer faces;
• a median recess formed in said outer face of each said connector member intermediate said side edges for reception of fastening means therein;
• panel contact means along each said side edge;
• a semi-cylindrical groove along said inner face of said end connector member intermediate said side edges having an open side aligned with said median recess, said panel contact means and said groove terminating in a common plane whereby they lie flat along an adjacent end edge of a said panel;
• at least one connector groove formed in each said end connector member extending from top to bottom thereof and defining a smooth cylindrical inner surface and having an open mouth directed at an acute angle relative to the plane of said panel body portion, and,
• connector hinge strip means having a generally flat planar web portion and smooth cylindrical ribs along either side of said web portion, said rib being connected to said planar web portion in an offset assymetrical manner whereby a plane passing through the centres of both said ribs will lie parrallel to but spaced apart from the plane of said rib, one said rib being shaped to interfit telescopically and rotatably with a said connector groove, in one said end connector member, and the other said rib being shaped to interfit telescopically and rotatably with said connector groove in another said end connector member of a panel adjacent thereto, said ribs being interfitable with said grooves in both left and right handed positions, said web portion extending between said end connector members from top to bottom thereof and providing a continuous flat planar junction between said at least two panels, forming same into a wall as aforesaid.