US 4,382,642 A · Beam furniture system

Abstract

A furniture system has a pedestal supported, rigid support beam (101) and a selection of functional furniture items attachable thereto with various types of bracket assemblies. The support beam (101) is elongated and rectangular in cross section with two rounded upper flanges (128) and two rectangularly shaped lower flanges (129) radially extending from a rectangular central portion (126, 127) thereof. The bracket assemblies can be secured around certain of the radially extending flanges at a continuum of locations along the support beam. A pedestal structure (102) is connectable to the support beam (101) at certain positions along the lower radially extending flanges (129). The furniture items include various sizes and shapes of work surfaces, storage files, and supporting stands for accessories such as telephones and calculators. Separate beams can be joined together at right angles to each other.

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Dependent claims

In an office furniture system adapted to provide a plurality of furniture arrangements structurally variable in accordance with functional requirements of users of said furniture arrangements, said furniture system comprising:

a plurality of functional furniture components comprising variously sized work surfaces, storage files, desk files and trays;
furniture support means for supporting and positioning in differing relative spacial arrangements selective components of said plurality of functional furniture components;
pedestal means for supporting said furniture support means in a horizontal plane at a selectible working height relative to a ground level;
and
bracket assemblies for connecting each of said furniture components to said support means;
characterized in that
said furniture support means comprises a horizontally disposed first linear support beam having a plurality of radially extending flanges and said bracket assemblies are removably clampable to at least two of said radially extending flanges.

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A furniture system adapted to provide both simple and complex furniture arrangements, each having a plurality of selectively removable functional furniture components wherein the type of said furniture components of any one of said furniture arrangements can be varied in accordance with the tasks associated with the occupation of the user of said any one of said furniture arrangements, said furniture system comprising:

rail support means for supporting and positioning said plurality of selectively removable furniture components wherein said rail support means is arranged in a horizontal plane and comprises a linear support beam adapted to provide selective linear positioning of various components of said plurality of selectively removable functional furniture components;
pedestal means connectable to said rail support means at a plurality of locations along said linear support beam for effecting a stable structure of said furniture system and for supporting said linear support beam in a horizontal plane at a predetermined working height relative to a ground level;
bracket assembly means for selectively connecting said functional furniture components to said linear support beam wherein certain components of said plurality of furniture components are positionable at least in part below said horizontal plane of said rail support means and certain other components of said selectively removable furniture components are positionable at least in part above said horizontal plane of said rail support means;
and
said rail support means further comprises means for perpendicularly connecting said linear support beam to another linear support beam.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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