Interior wall system
OwnerKatharine M. Kochanskyinventor
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Abstract
A temporary interior wall panel system may be mounted between the ceiling and the floor areas of a building to provide for interior partitioning of building space. The wall panel system includes easily mountable and demountable floor tracks, wall panels, and columns. The wall panels and columns are held in place between the building ceiling area and floor area by screwably adjustable jacks having ceiling and floor bearing plates. The position of the jacks along the length of the wall panels is adjustable.
Claims11
A movable interior wall panel comprising:
- (a) a frame having a plurality of horizontal members and a plurality of vertical members, said horizontal members having a longitudinal slot along the length of said horizontal members, wherein said horizontal members form a ceiling edge and a floor edge of said frame;
- (b) a plurality of jacks located along said ceiling edge of said frame and a plurality of jacks located along said floor edge of said frame, said jacks having a bearing plate, a threaded shaft mounted to said bearing plate, a washer plate and a lock nut, said jacks being slidably mounted to said frame by positioning said threaded shaft through said longitudinal slot of said horizontal members;
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- (c) sheathing applied over said frame.
A movable interior wall panel for enclosing areas between a ceiling and a floor comprising:
- (a) a frame;
- (b) a plurality of screwably adjustable jacks for temporarily fixing said frame between said ceiling and said floor, said screwably adjustable jacks being slidably positionable along said frame between said frame and said ceiling and between said ceiling and said floor;
- (c) sheathing applied over said frame.
A temporary interior wall system for locating and positioning interior walls between a ceiling area and a floor area comprising:
- (a) a plurality of wall panels, said wall panels having a ceiling edge, a floor edge and first and second ends, said panels having a plurality of vertical members and a plurality of horizontal members said horizontal members having a longitudinal slot along the length of said members, and where said ceiling edge and said floor edge have a slotted longitudinal member and where said first end and said second end have a vertical member;
- (b) a plurality of columns having ceiling ends and floor ends located at said first ends and said second ends of said panels;
- (c) a U-shaped floor track running along said floor area sized to receive said floor edges of said wall panels;
- (d) means for mounting said columns to said wall panel ends;
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- (e) a plurality of screwably engaged jacks having a threaded rod, a bearing plate, a washer plate and a lockout wherein said jacks are slidably mounted to said wall panels between said wall panels and said ceiling area by inserting said threaded rod of said jacks into said longitudinal slot of said horizontal ceiling edge member and turning said lock nut to force said washer plate against said horizontal ceiling edge member and said bearing plate against said ceiling area;
- and wherein one of said screwably engaged jacks is located at said ceiling end and said floor end of each of said columns so that said columns may be fixed between said ceiling area and said floor area by turning said lock nuts to force said washer plates against said column ends and said bearing plates against said ceiling area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.