Privacy screen for office panelling systems
AssigneeTeknion Furniture Systems
InventorsSteve Verbeek, Lorie Marangoni, Harry Ayvazyan
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Abstract
The privacy screen provides a simple, effective solution to provide visual privacy for the traditional open workstations of office panelling systems. The privacy screen can easily be retrofitted to existing systems without the need for specialized panels or overhead mounting structure at an opening threshold. The privacy screen is mounted to overlap with a face of a panel adjacent a panel and extend there beyond to close the entryway to the workstation.
Claims12
A privacy screen secured to one side of an office panel and movable thereacross to an extended position, said privacy screen comprising a screen member supported by a mounting arrangement having a first part secured to a frame of said office panel and a second part secured to said screen member, said first part positioning said screen member immediately adjacent to said one side of said frame, said mounting arrangement accommodating horizontal sliding movement of the screen member between a first position and a second position, said screen in said second position being supported in a cantilevered manner generally beyond said office panel and in said first position said screen overlaps with said office panel.
A privacy screen secured to an office panel of an office panelling system for selective closure of an entryway adjacent one end of said office panel, said privacy screen comprising a lightweight screen member, a slide mounting arrangement, said slide mounting arrangement including an elongate member fixed to a top edge of said screen member with said elongate member cooperating with an office panel support bracket secured to a frame member of said office panel said office panel support bracket having a first part secured to said frame member and a second part extending outwardly from and to one side of said first part, said second part slidingly supporting said elongate member and positioning said screen member generally forward of said first part such that said screen member immediately adjacent one side of said office panel and movable from a first position overlapping with said office panel to a second position closing said entryway.
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