Abstract: An improved and more versatile space divider system for open office interiors includes as a major component a structure beam or spine supported at each end by vertically adjustable legs. Feet on the legs provide the required lateral stability to support or hang components such as work surfaces, filing systems and the like from the beam. Each beam includes two enclosed electrical ducts on the top thereof superjacent work surface height, such ducts being provided for power and communication wiring respectively, with the latter being above the former and laterally enlarged. The power wiring duct is prewired with outlets on both sides, while the communications wiring duct includes both lateral and top access. The legs have a smooth exterior surface yet permit beams to be connected thereto at a wide variety of angles. Enclosures or fillets for the beams and legs permit the ducts to pass through the legs fully enclosed.

Abstract: An assembly for supporting and storing paper, reference materials and other like items on a space divider and furniture system off of work surfaces includes paired hanging vertically extending brackets having one or more horizontally projecting cantilevered arms. Each bracket includes an upper hook and alternative forms of a lower foot which maintains the brackets vertical and the arms horizontal. The hook and feet are removably secured to the ends of the brackets and the alternative feet are employed depending on the height at which the assembly is mounted on the space divider system. The brackets may be mounted anywhere along the space divider system. The arms in turn support with a snap fit several forms or sizes of molded plastic trays which interconnect the paired brackets. The arms are circular in section and the edges of the tray are provided with downwardly turned circular edges which snap over the arms. Projections partially closing such openings assist in retaining the trays on the arms.

Abstract: A work top is height adjustable and may tilt about a horizontal axis near the front edge. The work top may be mounted on an open office beam system or an office screen or partition in cantilever fashion or it may be a free standing unit. The work top is mounted for horizontal sliding movement and tilting on a horizontally extending undercarriage. The undercarriage includes an inclined strut journalled for sliding movement in a normally fixed inclined strut. A cable reeving system interconnects the work top and fixed inclined strut to maintain the work top in the same horizontal position regardless of its elevation. One or more tension springs, the tension of which may be adjusted, interconnect the under carriage and work top to counterbalance the weight of the work top and what may be positioned thereon such as a computer. A releasable latch locks the work top to the under carriage so that the work top may be locked in its height adjusted position.

Abstract: Hanging components of the enclosed or open shelf type for an interior space dividing system utilize a disappearing pivoting hook at the upper rear corners and a pivoting mounting bracket or foot at the lower rear corners, the latter being pivoted to two alternative positions depending on the supporting horizontal frame element of the system or elevation at which the component is supported. Such hooks and mounting brackets are for the most part enclosed within the back-to-back face plates of the vertical panels of the components, such panel forming face plates having rounded edges forming a peripheral slot, such slot being enlarged to accommodate the pivoting movement of the disappearing hook and mounting foot. The face plates are readily assembled and disassembled by an internal tongue and slot connection at the front and by fasteners at the rear which extend through collars forming the pivots for the hook and bracket.

Abstract: A combination space dividing wall panel and elongated, fluorescent lighting fixture wherein the fluorescent lighting fixture is mounted a predetermined distance above the upper edge of the wall panel by a pair of lighting fixture support rods, each having a threaded stud at the bottom of such rod, which is threadingly inserted into the upper part of a metal post attached to and supporting an end of a space dividing wall panel. The support rods rotatably engage spaced, slotted apertures in the underside of the lighting fixture to provide for either linear alignment of the elongated lighting fixture with respect to a space dividing wall panel, or, an angular relationship with respect to interconnected, angularly related wall panels.

Abstract: A desk or like unit with full duct internal wire management includes rectangular horizontal top and vertical wood support panels therefor, and longitudinally aligned elongate enclosure brackets cooperating with the wood panels to form an elongate horizontal wiring duct or ducts extending the length or width of the desk, or both, for hidden storage of wires or the like. The top panel has an elongate access opening therein extending co-extensively with the wiring duct to facilitate handling and feeding of wires therein, and a removable snap-in closure receivable in such access opening normally closes the same. The closure, which is so profiled to form a continuation of the top surface of the desk, includes a number of notches at selected positions therealong for egress of wires from the wiring duct to the top surface of the top panel for connection to an appliance supported thereon.

Abstract: A space divider system which includes a plurality of posts and at least one beam assembly wherein the posts and beam constitute a raceway for receiving electrical and communication wiring for the transmission of electrical energy at work table height and wherein the posts and beam constitute a rigid structure for supporting various components such as lighting, acoustic panels, table and work surfaces, file storage bins and the like. Means are provided for interconnecting said posts and beam or beams in a manner facilitating the passage of wiring therebetween and addition means are provided within said posts for levelling a beam supported therebetween.

Abstract: A office chair having an endless, rigid frame of metal supporting a seat and backrest in which the metal frame has a generally U-shaped configuration with curved surfaces facing a viewer and with engaged, complementary portions of the frame, seat and backrest not only accurately locating the components relative to each other for assembly, but also concealing the unfinished edged of upholstery material and maintaining it tightly and at the same time covering portions of the frame to conceal its massiveness.