Steelcase Inc.

Gale F Wilcox

Mark T Slager

Michael L Deimen

Randall P Nelsen

Michael E Wurth

Royal A Kent

Terence M Duncan

Edmund X Klipa

Thomas R Maas

Jon R Mullen

Carolyn M Varellas-Olree

Linda M Parker

Alan L Pearson

David A Feutz

Gary H Grund

James G Paulsen

Craig S DeDamos

Charles G Humphrey

Charles G Humphrey, Deceased

Harold Vander Hoek

A freestanding modular furniture arrangement is provided to create workstations in open office plans, and other similar applications. Each furniture unit includes a worksurface with capped cutouts in the rear corners to mount overhead cabinets, privacy screens, and other furniture accessories. A mounting rail extends continuously along the rearward edge of each worksurface, and is capable of removably supporting therein a plurality of different amenities, such as bookshelves, CRT stands, fans, task lamps, etc., so as to permit a worker to personalize his or her own workstation. A removable stanchion permits certain convertible amenities to be supported either freestanding on the worksurface, or along the rear of the worksurface on the mounting rail. An L-shaped intermediate leg is available to support the worksurface in a cantilevered fashion to facilitate unfettered task chair movement along the forward edge of the worksurface.

Modular furniture

A freestanding modular furniture arrangement is provided to create workstations in both open and closed office plans, and other similar applications. Each furniture unit includes a worksurface with capped cutouts in the rear corners to mount overhead cabinets, privacy screens, and other furniture accessories. A mounting rail extends continuously along the rearward edge of each worksurface, and is capable of removably supporting therein a plurality of different amenities, such as bookshelves, CRT stands, fans, task lamps, etc., so as to permit a worker to personalize his or her own workstation. A removable stanchion permits certain convertible amenities to be supported either freestanding on the worksurface, or along the rear of the worksurface on the mounting rail. An L-shaped intermediate leg is available to support the worksurface in a cantilevered fashion to facilitate unfettered task chair movement along the forward edge of the worksurface.

The specification discloses a furniture system in which a furniture unit is hung on a support by means of hooks which hook into apertures in the support, the unit being locked in place by a lock which is biased into engagement with one of the apertures in the support. The lock and furniture unit in which it is mounted include a detent system which holds the lock in an unlocked position when engaged, enabling one to remove the furniture unit from the support without having to simultaneously manually hold the lock in an unlocked position. The lock and the support further include an automatic release system which automatically releases the detent when the unit is first hooked into the support whereby the lock automatically snaps into its locked condition.

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Alto, MI, United States of America

Gale F Wilcox