Temporary isolation structure
OwnerRichard R. Bonainventor
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Abstract
Components for providing temporary walls to environmentally isolate a selected area of a room from the remainder of the room include telescopically adjustable stanchions that support upright sidewalls formed of flexible sheet material. The stanchions include hinged flange members that are mounted to provide planar surfaces parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stanchions for sealing attachment to the flexible sheet material.
Claims19
Components to form temporary walls to environmentally isolate a selected area of a room from the remainder of the room comprising:
- (a) a pair of spaced-apart stanchion means each including a base member and a telescopic member that is extendably received in the base member, and means to adjustably fix the position of the base member relative to the telescopic member;
- (b) a first set of flange members hinged to sidewalls of each base member and a second set of flange members hinged to sidewalls of each telescopic member to provide generally planar surfaces extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of each respective spaced-apart stanchion means the surface of the second set of flange members in generally vertical alignment with the surface of the first set of flange members;
- (c) means extending between the spaced-apart stanchion means;
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- (b) attachment means to sealingly attach the means extending between the spaced-apart stanchion means to the planar surfaces of each of the first and second sets of flange members such that a temporary isolating wall can be formed within a selected area of a room by selectively placing the stanchion means upright at spaced-apart locations, extending the telescopic members to selected elevations, and fixing opposite edges of the means extending between the spaced-apart stanchion means to the flange members by the attachment means to form an upright sidewall sealed between the adjacent pair of stanchion means.
An adjustable stanchion for supporting flexible sidewalls of a temporary wall structure to environmentally isolate a selected area of a room from the remainder of the room comprises:
- a tubular base member;
- a telescopic member that is extendably received in the tubular base member;
- a first set of flange members mounted to at least one side of the tubular base member to provide planar surfaces that extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the base member;
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- a second set of flange members hinged to at least one side of the telescopic member to provide planar surfaces that extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the telescopic member in generally vertical alignment with the first set of flange members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.