Haworth, Inc.

Brent Kunzi

Shane R Kuipers

Randall W Borgman

Robert Clare Wayner

Mark A Powell

Kristen R Glick

Steffen Lipsky

David Koning

Steve King

Scott Walter Compton

Alex Lamfers

Brian Gingrich

Bret Wyngarden

A dowel assembly for a furniture system provides a fastener usable in assembling various components in a furniture system. The dowel may be employed to define the relationship between first and second components of the furniture system, such as the relationship between adjoining planar surfaces of adjacent furniture panels. The dowel is fitted with a cam such that the cam provides a non-uniform radius at the interface between the dowel and one of the components. Through selective positioning of the cam about the longitudinal axis of the dowel, the interface between components of the furniture system may be selectively adjusted to ensure flush alignment of contiguous surfaces.

Dowel assembly for a furniture system

A furniture system which is readily reconfigurable into a variety of work surface configurations and shelving configurations as well as additional component configurations associated therewith so as to readily adapt the furniture system to the specific needs of an office area. The system includes a system of brackets which readily accommodates mounting of work surfaces at a variety of elevations, and a shelving system which maintains shelves of different materials and thicknesses so that the top surfaces thereof align in a common plane.

Furniture system

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Hudsonville, MI, United States of America

Brent Kunzi