Modular office furniture partition
AssigneeHollanding Inc.
InventorJohn R. Edwards
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Abstract
This invention relates to an upright partition for use in a modular office furniture system, the partition comprising: a frame comprising: two vertical posts each having outward opposing faces defining spaced apart parallel forward and rearward planes; a plurality of horizontal beams, at least one beam in each said plane, each beam having an inward face and an outward face, the inward face of each beam being connected to one said outward face of an associated post in an overlapping moment resisting connection; and a plurality of cladding panels each connected to one said beam; whereby an internal cavity is defined inward of the outward faces of said beams, and a raceway is defined outward of said outward post faces and inward of the outward faces of said beams.
Claims28
An upright partition for use in a modular office furniture system, the partition comprising:
- a frame comprising:
- two vertical posts each having outward opposing faces defining spaced apart parallel forward and rearward planes;
- plurality of horizontal beams, at least one beam in each said plane, each beam having an inward face and an outward face, the inward face of each beam being connected to one said outward face of an associated post in an overlapping moment resisting connection;
- and a plurality of cladding panels each connected to one said beam;
- each cladding panel having an inner surface;
- whereby an internal cavity is defined inward of the outward faces of said beams, and a raceway is defined outward of said outward faces of the posts and inward of the inner surfaces of the cladding panels.
An upright partition for use in a modular office furniture system, the partition comprising:
- a frame comprising:
- two vertical posts each having outward opposing faces defining spaced apart parallel foward and rearward planes;
- a plurality of horizontal beams, at least two beams in each said plane, each beam having an inward face and an outward face, the inward face of each beam being connected to one said outward face of an associated post in an overlapping moment resisting connection;
- and a plurality of cladding panels each connected to one said beam;
- whereby an internal cavity is defined comprising:
- (a) a central vertically extending post space between said forward and rearward planes and bounded by said posts, and
- (b) a plurality of horizontally extending raceways bounded by adjacent beams outward from said forward and rearward planes at least as far as said outward faces of the beams, the central post space and raceways in communication between the beams and posts,
- the central post space permitting passage of cable means vertically and horizontally between the posts inwardly past the beams throughout the entire height of the partition,
- the raceways permitting passage of the cable means horizontally between the beams outwardly past the posts throughout the entire width of the partition, and to adjacent similar portions.
A partition according to claim 20 wherein the central post space is open at a top and bottom of the partition for ingress and exit of cable means vertically therefrom.
An upright partition for use in a modular office furniture system, the partition comprising;
- a frame comprising:
- two vertical posts each having outward opposing faces defining spaced apart parallel forward and rearward planes;
- a plurality of horizontal beams, at least one beam in each said plane, each beam having an lnward face and an outward face, the inward face of each beam being connected to one said outward face of an associated post in an overlapping moment resisting connection;
- and
- a plurality of cladding panels each connected to one said beam;
- whereby an internal cavity is defined inward of the outward faces of said beams, and a raceway is defined outward of said outward faces of the posts and inward of a plane in which the outward faces of the beams lie.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.