Claims
- 1. A system for subdividing office space into a plurality of work stations, said system comprising mechanically secured office panels with at least some of said office panels supporting work surfaces to at least one side of said office panels, and some of said work stations being defined by a desking arrangement having work surfaces supported independent of said office panels; characterised in that said office panels each include a rigid rectangular frame with at least one intermediate horizontal securing channel extending across said panel and forming a securing structure running the length of the panel and accessible between removable functional cover elements of said office panels at a multiplicity of locations distributed along said securing channel; said horizontal securing channels cooperating with and supporting to one side of said panels vertical support members of at least some of said work surfaces supported from said panels, each vertical support member including a projecting member extending into and being restricted by the cooperating horizontal securing channel it engages at any of said multiplicity of locations therealong; and wherein at least one of said work stations is defined by work surfaces supported by the combined office panels and said desking arrangement where the work surfaces thereof are joined at a transition position intermediate the length of a panel where one end of a work surface adjacent said transition position is supported from one of said panels intermediate the length of the supporting panel; said office panels and said desking arrangement cooperating such that transition positions can occur at any of said multiplicity of locations of said securing channel of said one panel, which locations are intermediate the length of a panel.
- 2. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least some of said work surfaces can be interchangeably supported by said desking arrangement or said panels.
- 3. A system as claimed in claim 1 including a supply of interchangeable work surfaces with some of said work surfaces having transitional segments of forming an angle connection between work surface supported by said panels and work surfaces which are part of said desking arrangement, said supply of work surfaces allowing the work surface configuration to change by interchange of work surfaces.
- 4. A system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said work surfaces include a plurality of transition work surfaces, each transition work surface having opposed offset end configurations to define said transition position in a longitudinal axis of the work surface formed between two adjacent work surfaces one supported from said office panels and one supported from said desking arrangement.
- 5. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein each frame includes two vertically spaced securing channels and each of said vertical support members engage said channels.
- 6. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said work surfaces are maintained in engagement with support means of said panels and support means of said desking system by a spring detente arrangement and are releasable from said spring detente arrangement by applying an upward force on said work surfaces.
- 7. A system as claimed in claim 4 wherein said transition position is part of one of the work surfaces of said desking arrangement or said panels.
- 8. A system as claimed in claim 7 wherein said transition work surfaces each include a transition segment at one end of the work surface and said transition segment is at least primarily supported in a cantilevered manner by said office panels.
- 9. A system as claimed in claim 8 wherein said transition work surfaces define a transitions selected from the group of 15.degree., 30.degree., 45.degree., 60.degree., 90.degree., 120.degree., 135.degree., 150.degree., and 180.degree..
- 10. A system as claimed in claim 1 wherein electrical power and or communication feeds are interconnected and pass between the panels and the desking arrangement.
- 11. In a system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said work surfaces are removable in segments, some of which terminate at a position intermediate the length of a panel, without detachment from adjacent segments.
- 12. In a system as described in claim 1 including floor plates which engage legs of said desking systems at a transition position between work surfaces thereof disposed in a particular angular orientation to maintain said particular angular orientation therebetween.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of abandoned application Ser. No. 07/878,218 filed May 4, 1992.
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