US3786934A - Carrier structure particularly for office equipment assembly - Google Patents

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US3786934A
US3786934A US00236098A US3786934DA US3786934A US 3786934 A US3786934 A US 3786934A US 00236098 A US00236098 A US 00236098A US 3786934D A US3786934D A US 3786934DA US 3786934 A US3786934 A US 3786934A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
    • A47B21/06—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B5/00—Suspended or hinged panels forming a table; Wall tables
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B83/00—Combinations comprising two or more pieces of furniture of different kinds
    • A47B83/001—Office desks or work-stations combined with other pieces of furniture, e.g. work space management systems
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H1/00—Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination or staggered storeys
    • E04H1/06—Office buildings; Banks
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B37/00—Tables adapted for other particular purposes
    • A47B2037/005—Tables specially adapted for laboratories
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B2200/00—General construction of tables or desks
    • A47B2200/0066—Workstations
    • A47B2200/0067—Enclosure type with computer
    • A47B2200/0071—Booth like

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  • PNENTEB JAHZ 21974 saw s [If "g PATENTEB JAN 2 219% SHEET 7 BF 7 CARRIER STRUCTURE PARTICULARLY FOR OFFICE EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • This invention relates to a carrier structure particularly for supporting a plurality of office items.
  • the structure includes a throughgoing vertical hollow support post to which shelves, table tops, seats and the like are attached as cantilevers.
  • the hollow support post is adapted to receive electric conductors and the like.
  • a hollow support post of quadratic cross section for the installation of exhibition booths and the like it is known to provide, between the ceiling and the floor, a hollow support post of quadratic cross section, the lateral walls of which are provided with openings for attaching thereto in a cantilever manner brackets of similar components, to which shelves or the like may be secured. It is also known to dispose electric conductors inside the said hollow support posts.
  • the openings provided over the entire length and on all four sides of the hollow support post are esthetically unappealing.
  • the load capacity of the brackets secured by means of screws to the wall of the hollow support post is limited.
  • the items may be mounted only in four discrete positions.
  • the internally disposed conductors are visible because of the openings in the wall of the hollow support post.
  • telephone booth structures are known, as disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,419,305, which may be positioned adjacent one another and which are formed essentially of three walls to which there is secured a seat by means ofa cantilever support.
  • a central leg supports a plurality of such phone booths and also cantilevers secured to said central leg by bolts.
  • the cantilevers support a seat in an articulated manner.
  • the items of equipment are affixed to sleeves which are mounted on and surround the hollow post mentioned hereinbefore. Between said sleeves (hereinafter referred to as carrier sleeves) there are disposed similarly structured spacer sleeves which also surround the hollow carrier post.
  • carrier sleeves there are disposed similarly structured spacer sleeves which also surround the hollow carrier post.
  • the latter is of such a cross sectional dimension that it is adapted to receive the entire equipment required for each work place.
  • the hollow support post may have any desired cross section, since it is covered by the carrier and spacer sleeves which determine the appearance of the entire column structure.
  • the provision of these sleeves also make it possible to attach the items of equipment at practically any height and since the load may be taken up through the spacer sleeves, the structure, according to the invention, is not limited in its load capacity as are prior art arrangements outlined hereinbefore.
  • the concealment of the hollow support post by the sleeves makes it possible to design the hollow post entirely in accordance with the requirements of technology.
  • electric conduits, tubular components and the like may be disposed within the hollow post and may be coupled to the items of equipment supported by the hollow post.
  • the structure according to the invention has the afore-outlined advantages even without the disposition of the installation within the hollow post.
  • each sleeve is made of multi-part disassemblable components. Consequently, it is not necessary to remove all the top sleeves when one particular sleeve is to be replaced. This embodiment is particularly advantageous when the hollow support post is in engagement with the ceiling or other structure that would prevent an upward removal of the sleeves.
  • a preferred embodiment thereof makes it possible to provide the hollow posts with a circular section and to mount the items of equipment, with the carrier sleeves attached thereto, on the hollow post in a swingable manner or in any fixed position. Since the vertical forces for supporting the items of equipment are taken up by the carrier sleeves and spacer sleeves arranged above one another, the invention makes it possible to arrange freely swingably the items of equipment at any height. In order to prevent an unintentional swinging motion of the items of equipment in a simple manner, the multipart sleeves may be clamped to the hollow post by tightening the two complemental sleeve portions to one another.
  • the transversal beams are expediently also affixed to the sleeves that surround the hollow support posts.
  • the booths designed according to the invention may thus be not only easily assembled and disassembled, but may be erected in any office room without the necessity of taking any other supporting steps. Further, such booths may be erected side-by-side or behind one another, so that fully equipped office work spaces, such as teller booths for banks or the like may be provided rapidly and in a simple manner.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a group of equipped booths each composed of a plurality of equipment assemblies;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a single equipped booth
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view along line 33 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional view along line 4-4 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a sectional view along line 5-5 of FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view of an equipment assembly forming part of an equipped booth
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view of equipped booths arranged side-by-side and viewed from the inside of one booth;
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a differently equipped booths seen from the inside and FIG. 9 is a perspective view of still differently equipped booths in a sie-by-side arrangement.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a series ofjuxtaposed equipment booths identified with reference numerals 10 to 24, each having four vertical carrier columns 30.
  • carrier sleeves 32 As it will be described in detail later, the outside of each column is formed by carrier sleeves 32 and spacer sleeves 34.
  • various items of equipment such as wall panel elements 36, benches 38, counter tops and illuminating bodies 42, the structure of which will be described in detail as the specification progresses. It may be already observed in FIG. 1 that completely equipped office work places may be installed, for example, in the teller room of a bank building without the necessity of performing remodelling work on the building itself.
  • a spacer sleeve 34a which supports in series four carrier sleeves 32a-32d, followed by three spacer sleeves 34b-34d, a carrier sleeve 32f for a sign 52, a further spacer sleeve 34c and, finally, a carrier sleeve 32f.
  • a planar wall panel 54 To the carrier sleeves 32a-32d there are secured a planar wall panel 54, a counter top 56, an arcuate wall panel 58, a compartment shelf 60, a table top 62, a further arcuate wall panel 64 and a further compartment shelf 66.
  • small upper transversal beams To mutually corresponding carrier sleeves 32f adjacent columns 30 there are affixed small upper transversal beams which have essentially a U-shaped profile. Their configuration can be clearly seen in FIG. 2.
  • the transversal beams 70 carry, by means of a T- member 72 which is welded to the appropriate transversal beam, the illuminating bodies indicated generally at 42 in FIG. 1.
  • each illuminating body 42 there are also secured half housing shells 74 which, together with an upper and a lower diffusing plate 76 and 78, respectively, complement each illuminating body 42.
  • the light sources themselves are not shown in the drawings; they may be formed in a desired manner of known ele-' ments such as neon tubes or the like.
  • the illuminating bodies 42 are accessible from above and from below and are therefore adapted to receive, for example, components ofan air conditioning unit.
  • transversal beams 80 and 82 are used if the latter should also serve for connecting two adjacent columns 30 to one another.
  • the last-named transversal beams are welded to one or more carrier sleeves 32 and carry plates 60, 62 and 66 welded thereto.
  • the wall panels 58 and 64 are secured to the plates 60, 62 and 66.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 there is shown the inner structure of a column 30. Externally there is disposed a spacer sleeve 34b and a carrier sleeve 340 that surround the hollow support post 50 in which there are disposed electric conductors 100, telephone cables 102, and a dispatch tube 104 containing a cartridge 106.
  • the hollow support post 50 may have at various locations throughgoing insulated electric terminals 10% isolated by a plastic ring a; to these terminals 100b electric conductors, telephone cables and the like may be connected by means of terminals 100d being insulated by a plastic ring 100c in the carrier sleeves, so that desk lamps, telephone and television sets and the like may be coupled to their corresponding cables.
  • Each sleeve (whether carrier or spacer sleeve) is made of two complemental halves.
  • One sleeve half has two diametrically opposed threaded bores 107, while the other sleeve half is provided with two countersunk bores 108, each in exact axial alignment with a threaded bore 107.
  • a screw preferably of the type having a hexagonal recessed hole
  • FIG. 6 there is illustrated the invention apart from its use in connection with a booth assembly.
  • a hollow support post (not visible in FIG. 6) there are inserted a plurality of concealing sleeves which carry a seat 202 (on a cantilever 200), a typewriter table 204, a desk 206, a phone shelf 208, an office television set 210 and a desk lamp 212 in such a manner that for each item a number of angular positions are possible.
  • the hollow support post is cylindrical, the possibilities of angular adjustments are infinite.
  • FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 do not require additional explanation; the reference numerals provided with a prime sign indicate components which correspond to earlier discussed components, but are of somewhat different configuration. lt may be observed from these three figures that several equipped booths may be arranged in ajuxtaposed relationship in such a manner that at each corner there is provided only a sole column 30 which, in comparison with FIG. 1, is a significant simplification.
  • carrier sleeves disposed in axial series on said carrier columns and surrounding the same, said items being carried by selected ones of said carrier sleeves;
  • spacer sleeves disposed on said carrier columns and surrounding the same, said spacer sleeves being situated adjacent selected carrier sleeves to adjust the height of said items;
  • At least one transversal beam securing a plurality of said carrier columns to one another in a horizontally spaced relationship to form an appointments unit, said transversal beam being secured to carrier sleeves of the several carrier columns.
  • each of said vertical carrier columns is configured as a hollow support post including a length of a dispatch tube.
  • each of said vertical columns is configured as a hollow support post having a cylindrical outer face, and wherein said carrier sleeves are swingable about the axis of their respective hollow support post.
  • said carrier sleeves including means to fasten them to said hollow support post in any desired angular position.
  • each of said vertical columns is configured as a hollow support post including conduits disposed therein and outlet terminals connected to said conduits and disposed in the wall of said hollow support post, said outlet terminals being covered by said sleeves and connected to corresponding terminals of said sleeves.

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