Patents Assigned to SMED International Inc.
  • Patent number: 6619008
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Smed International Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Shivak, Dale R. Marshall, Darren R. Long
  • Patent number: 6557310
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Smed International, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale R. Marshall, Darren R. Long, Rodney Vallas, Jim Thompson Goodchild, Robert E. Steeves
  • Patent number: 6435253
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Smed International, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Steeves, Dale R. Marshall
  • Patent number: 6196352
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: SMED International Inc.
    Inventor: Jim Thompson Goodchild
  • Patent number: 5913498
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Smed International Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alfred Brown, Dale Robert Marshall
  • Patent number: D441272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Smed International Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Shedd, Kent Davidson, Patrick Rousseau
  • Patent number: D452811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Smed International Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Shedd, Kent Davidson, Patrick Rousseau
  • Patent number: D462890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Smed International, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Brown
  • Patent number: D402048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Smed International Inc.
    Inventor: Jim Thompson Goodchild
  • Patent number: D402049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Smed International Inc.
    Inventor: Jim Thompson Goodchild