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US 4,619,486 AGranted
Spine assembly
AssigneeKnoll International, Inc.
InventorsBruce R. Hannah, David D. McClanahan, Lee Denny
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AssigneeKnoll International, Inc.
InventorsBruce R. Hannah, David D. McClanahan, Lee Denny
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A spine assembly for supporting desk tops and panels and accessories and providing for the passage of utility and communications lines to the desk tops and panels and accessories, as needed. A housing is utilized open at a bottom portion for receiving the utility and communications lines. An internal strut is included within the housing at a top portion of the housing. The internal strut serves as a support for brackets which extend upwardly in turn to support desk tops and panels and accessories as well as a cover assembly. The cover assembly provides an opening through which utility and communications line pass from the interior of the housing to the exterior thereof. In addition, brackets extend through the cover assembly for supporting panels and accessories above the cover assembly. The spine assembly is free-standing, and may be closed off by end panels as an individual item or joined to one or more other spine assemblies to create a system of furniture.
A spine system assembly comprising a plurality of housings joined end-to-end to create an interconnected network of such housings, each housing comprising a framework defined by vertical structural support members at each end of the housing, side support members joining together said vertical structural support members and providing support for spaced-apart parallel side panels, said vertical structural support members and said side support members lying totally within the space between said side panels and said vertical structural support members being spaced from said side panels to permit the unimpeded laying of electrical wiring within each housing and from one housing to another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.