Patents Assigned to SMED International Inc.
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Patent number: 6619008Abstract: A corner connector arrangement which joins adjacent upright edges of at least two wall panels for maintaining the panels in angled relationship. The connector arrangement employs a connector post positioned between adjacent panel end edges. Each panel has a connecting bracket provided with outwardly protruding upper and lower flanges which respectively overlap upper and lower ends of the post. The post has suitable openings so that cabling can pass from interiorly of one panel through the post for passage into the interior of another panel. Elongate closure strips are secured to and extend longitudinally along opposite edges of the bracket associated with each panel. The closure strips have cantilevered flanges which are curved similar to and resiliently deflect into engagement with exterior peripheral surfaces on the post to enclose the post and the cabling therein. A separate closer strip that snaps onto the post may be used to enclose the post for two-panel connections.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Smed International Inc.Inventors: Vincent Shivak, Dale R. Marshall, Darren R. Long
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Patent number: 6557310Abstract: A wall system and particularly a load-bearing spine wall defined by rigidly connected spine panels which are usable in conjunction with and connectable to branch panels for defining workstations. These spine panels include an interior frame having plural hollow cross beams rigidly joined between parallel uprights. The cross beams have elongate slots extending lengthwise along the sidewalls thereof. Each side of the frame permits one or more removable covering tiles to be attached thereto for defining the exterior surface of the spine panel. Load-bearing components having cantilevered hangers can be engaged within the elongate slots which extend lengthwise of the cross beams. Vertically adjacent tiles have longitudinal edges spaced to define a narrow elongate passage therebetween which aligns with the mouth of a respectively adjacent hanger-accommodating slot.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Smed International, Inc.Inventors: Dale R. Marshall, Darren R. Long, Rodney Vallas, Jim Thompson Goodchild, Robert E. Steeves
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Patent number: 6435253Abstract: An arrangement employing first and second upright partitions positioned in laterally overlapping relationship and connected along upper and lower edges by a slide arrangement permitting one partition to be manually moved lengthwise thereof. The slide arrangement includes slide rails fixed to each partition adjacent upper and lower edges thereof. Slide brackets are fixed adjacent upper and lower edges of each partition and have sidewardly cantilevered portions which slidably engage within channels of the slide rail on the laterally adjacent partition. Removable top caps mount over the upper slide rails.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Smed International, Inc.Inventors: Robert E. Steeves, Dale R. Marshall
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Patent number: 6196352Abstract: A sound attenuating relocatable partition wall panel. A substantially rigid first skin is secured, in a spaced apart relationship to a substantially rigid second skin generally opposite thereto. The first and second skins have different respective critical frequencies at which a coincidence dip occurs in their respective sound transmission loss characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: SMED International Inc.Inventor: Jim Thompson Goodchild
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Patent number: 5913498Abstract: An adjustable foot assembly for supporting and levelling furniture. A mounting bracket is attachable to a furniture leg and a cantilever member is pivotally mounted to the mounting bracket. The cantilever member is pivotable relative to said mounting bracket. A bolt extends between the mounting bracket and the cantilever member. Rotation of the bolt urges the cantilever member to rotate relative to the mounting bracket to relatively raise and lower a distal end of the cantilever member.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignee: Smed International Inc.Inventors: Thomas Alfred Brown, Dale Robert Marshall
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Patent number: D441272Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: Smed International Inc.Inventors: Nathan Shedd, Kent Davidson, Patrick Rousseau
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Patent number: D452811Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Smed International Inc.Inventors: Nathan Shedd, Kent Davidson, Patrick Rousseau
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Patent number: D462890Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2001Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Smed International, Inc.Inventor: Thomas A. Brown
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Patent number: D402048Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1997Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Smed International Inc.Inventor: Jim Thompson Goodchild
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Patent number: D402049Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1997Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Smed International Inc.Inventor: Jim Thompson Goodchild