Furniture system

A furniture system particularly adapted for use in open plans, and the like, comprising:

• an overhead support configured to be positioned above an open floor surface of an associated building room;
• a plurality of overhead support columns, each having an upper portion thereof connected with said overhead support, and a lower portion thereof shaped to abut the floor surface of the building room, and thereby support said overhead support thereon in a freestanding fashion within the building room at a predetermined overhead elevation;
• at least one panel constructed to permit easy, manual, bodily translation of the same by an adult user, and including a connector mounted thereon connecting the same with said overhead support in a manner in which said panel hangs downwardly from said overhead support in a generally vertical orientation;
• a hanger slide associated with said overhead support, and cooperating with the connector of said panel to permit said panel to be manually slid horizontally along said overhead support;
• a plurality of said panels, each including associated connectors which cooperate with said hanger slide of said overhead support to permit each of said panels to be individually slid sideways along said overhead support;
• wherein
• said hanger slide and said panel connectors are detachable one from the other thereby permitting each of said panels to be manually, bodily removed from said overhead support to facilitate configuring and reconfiguring said panels;
• and
• said hanger slide comprises an inverted T-shaped rail extending substantially continuously along a lowermost edge of said overhead support, with a pair of upstanding flanges along opposite sides thereof forming a pair of adjacent hanger rails on which said detachable connectors on said panels are abuttingly supported to removably hang said panels along both sides of each portion of said overhead support.

A furniture system particularly adapted to support group activities in open plans, and the like, comprising:

• an overhead support disposed in a generally horizontal orientation;
• a plurality of overhead support columns disposed in a generally vertical orientation;
• each of said columns having a lower portion thereof adapted to abut a floor surface of an associated building room, and an upper portion thereof connected with said overhead support to rigidly interconnect the same, such that said columns are adapted to be freestanding on the floor surface and support said overhead support within the building room at a predetermined overhead elevation, with the floor surface beneath said overhead support being generally unobstructed;
• at least one partition panel shaped to visually divide one portion of the building room from another portion thereof, and being constructed to permit easy, manual, bodily translation of the same by an adult user;
• said partition panel including a connector mounted thereon which detachably connects the same with said overhead support in a manner in which said partition panels hangs downwardly from said overhead support in a generally vertical orientation, and is readily and easily manually removable therefrom by the user;
• at least one display panel adapted to present information thereon, and having a generally rigid, lightweight construction which permits easy, manual, bodily translation of the same by an adult user, said display panel includes a connector mounted thereon which detachably connects the same with said overhead support in a manner in which said display panel hangs downwardly from said overhead support in a generally vertical orientation, and is;
• readily and easily removable therefrom by the user;
• and
• a hanger supported on said overhead support, and detachably engaging said connectors of said panels to permit each of said panels to be manually lifted and detachably hung directly on said overhead support at various locations therealong.