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US 9,428,907 B2Granted
Free-standing continuous wall assembly
OwnerAnil K Guptainventor
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Abstract
A free-standing continuous wall assembly includes two end members, one or more intermediate members, a plurality of panels disposed in a vertical plane, each panel defining a one-piece sheet being sufficiently flexible to develop a concave shape when being supported in a horizontal plane at a pair of opposite edges thereof, and fasteners fastening each panel directly to one of the two end members and one intermediate member or directly to two intermediate members. The panel may be provided as a one-piece sheet that may be one of a peg board, slat board, chalk board, cork board and dry-erase board and any combination thereof.
Claims18
A free-standing continuous wall assembly comprising:
- a plurality of panels, each panel having holes formed through a thickness thereof and disposed in a linear pattern adjacent each vertical edge of said each panel, a bottom edge of said each panel is spaced a distance from a surface having said free-standing continuous wall assembly supported thereon, said each panel is prevented from tilting in a forward or a rearward direction when weight is attached to a front surface thereof;
- two end members, each end member including a base portion, an upright portion upstanding on said base portion mediate ends thereof and a brace having one end connected to said base portion and having an opposite end thereof connected to said upright portion at a distance from said base portion of between forty and sixty percent of a length of said upright portion, said upright portion having a flange with a hole pattern formed through a thickness thereof in a complimentary alignment with said hole pattern in said each panel;
- one or more intermediate members, each intermediate member including a base portion, an upright portion upstanding on said base portion of said each intermediate member and a brace having one end connected to said base portion of said each intermediate member and having an opposite end thereof connected to said upright portion of said each intermediate member at a distance from said base portion of said each intermediate member of between about fifty and about seventy percent of a length of said upright portion of said each intermediate member, said upright portion of said each intermediate member having a pair of flanges having a front edge surface thereof protruding forward said front surface of said each panel, each of said pair of flanges having a hole pattern formed through a thickness of said each of said pair of flanges of said upright portion of said each intermediate member adjacent and along each vertical edge thereof in said complimentary alignment with said hole pattern in said each panel, said base portion of said each intermediate member having a front end thereof protruding forward said front surface of said each panel at a smaller distance than a front end of a base portion of a respective end member;
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- fasteners at least passed through aligned apertures in said each panel and one of said two end members and one intermediate member or two intermediate members and fastening said each panel directly thereto.
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A free-standing continuous wall assembly comprising:
- two end upright members, each having a base portion, an upright portion upstanding on said base portion and a brace connecting said upright portion with said base portion;
- one or more intermediate upright members, each having a base portion, an upright portion upstanding on said base portion of said one or more intermediate upright members, and a brace connecting said upright portion of said one or more intermediate upright members with said base portion of said one or more intermediate upright members;
- a plurality of panels disposed in a vertical plane, each panel defining a one-piece sheet being sufficiently flexible to develop a concave shape when being supported in a horizontal plane at a pair of opposite edges thereof;
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- whereby fasteners only fastening vertical side edges of said each panel directly to one of said two end upright members and one intermediate upright member or directly to two intermediate upright members, prevent, in a combination with said two end upright members and said one or more intermediate upright members, said each panel from developing said concave shape and from tilting in a forward or a rearward direction when weight is attached to a front surface thereof.
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A free-standing continuous wall assembly comprising:
- a plurality of flexible sheets disposed in a vertical plane, each flexible sheet comprising holes formed through a thickness thereof and disposed in a linear pattern adjacent each vertical edge of said each flexible sheet;
- two end upright members, each being configured for a resting and upstanding on a surface and comprising a pair of flanges defining an L-shaped cross-section in a plane normal to a length of said each end upright member, one of said pair of flanges comprising a hole pattern formed through a thickness thereof in a complimentary alignment with said hole pattern in said each flexible sheet;
- one or more intermediate upright members, each being configured for resting and upstanding on the surface and comprising a pair of flanges defining an T-shaped cross-section in a plane normal to a length of said each intermediate upright member, each of said pair of flanges comprising holes being formed in a linear pattern through a thickness thereof, said holes being in a complimentary alignment with respective holes in said each flexible sheet;
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- whereby threaded fasteners only fastening, through aligned holes, vertical side edges of each flexible sheet directly to one of said two end upright members and one intermediate upright member or directly to two intermediate upright members and prevent, in a combination with said two end upright members and said one or more intermediate upright members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.