Steelcase Inc.

Joyce S Bromberg

Greg D Lamke

Harold Halvorson, Jr

Nicholas Q Dormon

Joylene M Battey

Eric C Rives

Douglas D Benner

A furniture system for fitting-out a building room of the type having a generally open plan and having an associated floor surface includes an overhead framework including a plurality of horizontal beam segments interconnected to form a rigid structure configured to be spaced above the floor surface. A plurality of support columns, each has an upper portion connected with the overhead framework, and a lower portion shaped to abut the floor surface to support the overhead framework in a freestanding fashion at a predetermined elevation above average user height. Each of the support columns further includes at least three vertical edges defining substantially planar faces therebetween. At least two of the vertical edges have a plurality of slots therein for supporting office furniture items and office accessories. A shelf is mounted to one of the support columns and is supported thereon. The shelf includes a frame having a plurality of hooks engaged in the slots of at least two of the vertical edges of the column and a shelf top affixed to and supported by the frame.

Column mountable shelf for furniture systems

An office cart includes a pair of laterally spaced apart side walls, a plurality of vertically spaced apart elongate fixed shelves, a back wall which extends between the side walls and which is disposed adjacent to the vertically spaced apart shelves, and a plurality of wheels mounted to the cart to facilitate transportability of the cart. The cart provides convenient storage of files, office supplies and like articles associated with a particular project or task or group of related projects or tasks which are assigned to an individual or to a small team comprised of two or more individuals. The cart also provides a mobile, upright, open storage facility having a relatively high storage capacity in relationship to the amount of floor space which it occupies, thereby providing an office cart which is particularly well suited for efficiently facilitating and supporting individual and group tasks or projects in a dynamic office environment where mobility and accessibility of shared project resources are important.

Office cart

A temporary office partition system is provided in which the partition is comprised of a plurality of partition panels, hinges, and bases. The panels are substantially flat, and have a bottom edge closely received in an associated partition base for support in a freestanding, substantially vertical, upright position. The base comprises at least two spaced-apart support portions disposed in a horizontally spaced relationship defining a panel receiving slot in which the panel is received. The base is supported on a floor surface in abutting fashion by laterally spaced-apart foot portions. Hinges comprising two oppositely outward facing U-shaped channels are shaped to closely receive the side edges of the panels and the U-shaped channels are interconnected by a flexible web to permit adjacent panels to be positioned in a mutually angular relationship.

Temporary office partition

Mobile table

Mobile cart

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Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

Joyce S Bromberg