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US 5,685,441 AGranted
Video display pedestal with article storage pockets
AssigneeVu Ryte, Inc.
InventorClifford T. Calfee
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AssigneeVu Ryte, Inc.
InventorClifford T. Calfee
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A video display unit such as a computer monitor or similar device is supported at a selected ergonomically correct height by a pedestal unit having one or more vertically stacked pedestal members, each defined by a generally horizontal plate portion and a depending wall. A peripheral ledge is interposed between the plate portion and the depending wall and the lower distal edge of the depending wall is spaced from an internal set of support gussets for supporting the pedestal members vertically stacked in nested relationship one on the other. Selected ones of the pedestal members have an opening in the side or depending wall portion providing a pocket for storing files, computer disks and other materials at the video display unit site. Opposed parallel inner walls extend from the opening to an opposite side wall to provide a smooth walled pocket for receiving the articles stored therein. The pedestal members are preferably formed of injection molded plastic and are preferably of a square cross sectional shape whereby the storage pockets may be arranged in selected positions with respect to each other.
A pedestal member for use in a pedestal unit having at least one pedestal member for supporting a video display device and the like, said pedestal member being characterized by:
A pedestal member for use in a pedestal unit having at least one pedestal member for supporting a video display device and the like, said pedestal member being characterized by:
A pedestal unit for supporting a video display device and the like at a selected height above a work surface, said pedestal unit including a plurality of vertically stacked pedestal members, each of said pedestal members comprising a generally horizontal plate portion, depending wall means disposed around the periphery of said plate portion, a ledge interposed between said depending wall means and said periphery of said plate portion and support means adapted for engagement with at least one of a plate portion and a ledge of another pedestal member to form a rigid variable height pedestal unit, and at least one of said pedestal members has an opening in said depending wall means providing an entry to a storage pocket in said pedestal unit.
A pedestal unit for supporting a video display device and the like at a selected height above a work surface, said pedestal unit comprising a plurality of vertically stacked pedestal members, each of said pedestal members having a generally horizontal polygonal plate portion, plural opposed depending walls extending from said plate portion, support means on each of said pedestal members engagable with an adjacent pedestal member for stacking said pedestal members in a vertically stacked and nested relationship, at least one of said pedestal members including an opening in one of said depending walls providing a storage pocket for receiving articles for storage in said pedestal unit and at least one of said pedestal members having substantially continuous depending walls to increase the rigidity of said pedestal unit for supporting said device.
A pedestal member for use in a pedestal unit having at least one pedestal member for supporting a video display device and the like, said pedestal member being characterized by:
A pedestal member for use in a pedestal unit having at least one pedestal member for supporting a video display device and the like, said pedestal member being characterized by:
A pedestal unit for supporting a video display device and the like at a selected height above a work surface, said pedestal unit including a plurality of vertically stacked pedestal members, each of said pedestal members comprising a generally horizontal plate portion, depending wall means, a peripheral ledge interposed between said depending wall means and said plate portion and support means adapted for engagement with at least one of said plate portion and said ledge of another pedestal member to form a rigid variable height pedestal unit, at least one of said pedestal members has at least one opening in said depending wall means providing a storage pocket in said pedestal unit, and at least one of said pedestal members of said pedestal unit has a continuous depending wall and said one pedestal member having said continuous depending wall is disposed above said pedestal member having said at least one opening to provide for distributing the weight of said video display device and the like on said pedestal member having said at least one opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.