Ditto Sales, Inc.

Kenneth A Kern

Lawrence Rapier

David R Gutgsell

An electrical raceway assembly for use with a structure is provided, comprising an elongated raceway engageable to the structure and having a length, a transverse base and a pair of opposite upstanding sidewalls extending along the length to define at least one channel configured for retaining electrical wires. A cover attachable to the raceway to occlude a portion of the channel is included. The cover includes an elongated face plate having an interior surface and an exterior surface. The cover is configured for snap fit engagement with the raceway. One end of the cover is rotatable, about a longitudinal axis of the raceway, between an open position in which a portion of a channel of the raceway is exposed and a closed position in which the other end of the cover is engaged to the raceway. A flange extends from one of the portions of the cover. The flange is relatively more flexible other elements of the cover and occludes an area behind the flange when the cover is attached to the raceway and the flange being elastically deformable to allow access to the area. In one embodiment, a living hinge is defined in the cover between the face plate and the rotatable end of the cover. The living hinge is elastically deformable to permit pivoting of the face plate relative to the rotatable end of the cover, thereby permitting greater access behind the cover.

Electrical raceway assembly

A furniture system is which disclosed comprises a first and second structures 2, 5 each having a horizontal member 3, 6 and a number of vertical members 4, 7 that support the first horizontal member 3, 6. A releasable connection device 10 is included for each of the structures 2, 5. Each releasable connection device 10 has an attachment portion 15 configured to engage to one of the support members 4, 7 of one of the structures 2, 5. The connection device 10 further comprises an elongated connection portion 24 that projects from the attachment portion 15. A female fastener 30 is defined on a surface 29 of the connection portion 20, and a male fastener 40 projects from the surface 29 adjacent the female fastener 30. The male and female fasteners 40, 30 are snap engageable with respective female and male fastener 30, 40 of the other of the releasable connection device 10 engaged to one of the support members of the other of the structures. The releasable connection device 10 further comprises a release portion extending from an end of the connection portion 20. The release portion has a release tab 50 contiguous with the surface 21 of the connection portion 20. The release tab 50 extends outwardly from each of the pair of engaged devices 10 to receive and transmit a disengagement force to the fasteners.

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Jasper, IN, United States of America

Kenneth A Kern