Claims
- 1. A linkable cluster workstation arrangement comprising a first cluster of workstations supported on a floor surface having:
- at least first, second third and fourth workstations arranged around a central open core, the core has upright partition walls joined at upright edges and forming a perimeter of a regular equal sided polygon of at least five and no more than six sides, the core having a central axis with the corners of the polygon on radial lines from the central axis, each workstation comprising a first work surface panel having a generally horizontal work surface bounded by five outer peripheral edges defining the shape of an irregular pentagon, the work surface panel, comprising a first straight line edge facing toward a space for a person working at the work surface panel, a second edge joining the first edge and extending inwardly toward the open core at an angle less than 180.degree. relative to the first edge, the second edge lying substantially on a radial line from the central axis and defining a dividing line between the first work surface panel for a first workstation and the first work surface panel for a second workstation;
- each work surface panel having a third straight line edge joining the second edge at a corner of the polygon core and arranged at an angle less than 180.degree. to the second edge, said third edge abutting on one upright partition wall forming the perimeter of open core, a fourth edge joining the third edge at a corner of the respective upright partition wall abutted by the third edge, the fourth edge extending away from the open core a desired amount substantially along a radial line from the central axis and defining a divider line between the first work surface panel for the first workstation and the first work surface panel for a third workstation, and a fifth straight line edge of the work surface panel joining the first edge and the fourth edge thereof, said polygon central core being bounded by the third edges of at least the four work surface panels and the corners between the third edges and the respective second and fourth edges of each work surface panel defining the corners of such polygon core; and
- the fifth edges of adjacent work surface panels aligning to form a straight line, the fifth edges facing outwardly from the central axis and being unobstructed to receive further work surface panels abutted thereagainst to extend outwardly from the first mentioned work surface panels of the first cluster.
- 2. The cluster of workstations of claim 1 and vertical divider wall means for the workstations, the fourth edge of at least two sets of adjacent workstations being separated by the vertical divider wall means, said vertical divider wall means extending upwardly above the first work surface to form a partition between said adjacent workstations.
- 3. The cluster of workstations of claim 1 wherein there are six workstations in the cluster, and the central core defined thereby is enclosed as a hexagon.
- 4. The cluster of workstations as specified in claim 3 wherein the six workstations have work surface panels arranged to form three pairs of work surface panels arranged symmetrically around a central axis of the core, and a separate vertical divider panel between the radially extending fourth edge of the work surface panels that extend substantially from a supporting surface for the clusters to a distance above the work surface areas to provide a divider between pairs of workstations, only, whereby an area of space for seating at the pairs of workstations is available to be shared by persons at the respective workstations of the pair.
- 5. A workstation cluster supported on a support surface comprising:
- at least six workstations arranged around a central open core having a central axis and a hexagon perimeter, the six workstations being arranged in three pairs of workstations, each pair comprising a first and a second workstation adjacent to each other, each workstation comprising a panel supported at a work surface height above the support surface and having five edges defining an outer periphery formed as an irregular sided pentagon panel which defines a first work surface area for each workstation, the irregular pentagon panel comprising a first edge facing toward a space for a person working at the work surface area and supported on the support surface, a second edge joining the first edge at a corner junction and extending inwardly toward the axis of the open core at an included angle of less than 180.degree. to the first edge and forming a separate dividing line between the irregular pentagon panel having the first work surface area for a first workstation of each pair of workstations and the irregular pentagon panel having the first work surface area for a second workstation of the same pair of workstations, the dividing line being generally along a radial line from the central axis;
- and the irregular pentagon panel further being defined by a third edge joining the second edge and arranged at an included angle of less than 180.degree. with the second edge, said third edge defining one portion of the hexagon perimeter of the central open core;
- the irregular pentagon panel further being defined by a fourth edge joining the third edge and extending away from the central open core along a substantially radial line from the central axis a desired amount and defining a divider line between the irregular pentagon panel having first work surface area for the first workstation of one pair of workstations and the irregular pentagon panel having the first work surface area for a workstation of a different pair of workstations, the second and fourth edges forming an included angle of substantially 60.degree.; and
- a fifth edge joining the first edge and the fourth edge to enclose the periphery of the irregular pentagon panel and the first work surface area thereof, each pair of workstations having vertical divider walls extending outwardly between the fourth edges of each irregular pentagon panel to separate each pair of workstations from the next adjacent workstations, and the first and second edges of the irregular pentagon panels of the first and second workstations being adjacent each other and the first edges of the irregular pentagon panels of the first and second workstations of each pair of workstations extending in opposite directions from the corner junctions defined by the respective first and second edges, there being no obstructions between the first and second workstations forming each pair of workstations extending from the central core farther than the corner junctions defined by the respective first and second edges.
- 6. The cluster of workstations of claim 5 and vertical wall panel means along the third edges of the workstations to define the central core.
- 7. The cluster of workstations of claim 5 wherein there is a divider wall extending from a support surface to a location above the irregular pentagon panels between the second edges of the two irregular pentagon panels of adjacent first and second workstations forming each pair of workstations.
- 8. The cluster of workstations of claim 5 wherein the fifth edges of the first work surface areas of first and third workstations having coextensive fourth edges are substantially perpendicular to the fourth edges and are aligned to form a fifth edge set, whereby a similar set of fifth edges of a second cluster of workstations having workstations arranged as in the first cluster can be linked to the first cluster by abutting the fifth edges of the first and third workstations of the first and second clusters.
- 9. A workstation assembly comprising a plurality of upright, partition height wall panels each having a lateral width and formed into an equal sided hexagon shape around a central upright axis;
- a plurality of workstations arranged to the exterior of said upright wall panels including separate work surface panels for each of said workstations, and each of said work surface panels having first, second, third, fourth and fifth edges arranged in the shape of an irregular pentagon, the third edges of each of the work surface panels extending along and corresponding in length to the lateral width of a corresponding one of the upright wall panels;
- the second and fourth edges of each of said work surface panels joining ends of the respective third edge and extending along radial lines from the upright central axis outwardly from edges of the respective upright wall panels, the second and fourth edges terminating outwardly from the respective wall panels, the first edge joining an outer end of said second edge and extending in the same direction but diverging from the third edge of the respective panel, and a fifth edge joining an outer end of the respective fourth edge, and intersecting and joining the respective first edge;
- separate work surface panels being arranged to form workstation pairs of work surface panels, with the first edges of the work surface panels of each pair substantially lying along a single straight line, and with the fifth edge of each panel in a pair aligning on a straight line with the fifth edge of a panel of an adjacent pair of work surface panels, said fifth edges being substantially perpendicular to the respective fourth edges which they join;
- substantially rectangular auxiliary work surface panels, each having one edge of substantially the same length as and abutting against the fifth edge of a separate work surface panel, and the auxiliary work surface panels having another edge at substantially right angles to the one edge lying along a line which is an extension of the fourth edge of the respective work surface panel, said auxiliary work surface panels each forming an auxiliary work surface area that extends outwardly from the central axis a greater distance than the fifth edges of the first mentioned works surface panels; and
- vertical radial divider walls between adjacent pairs of the first mentioned work surface panels, said vertical divider walls extending along and between the fourth edges of adjacent first mentioned work surface panels of different pairs and being positioned to extend outwardly between the auxiliary work surface panels abutted to the respective first mentioned work surface panels.
- 10. The assembly as specified in claim 9 and second upright divider walls extending between the second edges of the first mentioned work surface panels of each pair at a location above the respective first mentioned work surface panels only, the second upright divider walls extending radially outward from the central axis a distance not substantially greater than the distance of the junctions between the first and second edges of each of the respective first mentioned work surface panels to leave an area between the auxiliary work surface panels abutted to the fifth edges of the pairs of first mentioned work surface panels substantially unobstructed in the region outwardly from the first edges of the first mentioned work surface panels of each pair.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/339,963 filed on Apr. 18, 1989, abandoned as of the date of this application, which in turn was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/164,574, filed Mar. 7, 1988, now abandoned.
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