Kimball International, Inc.

Lexmark International, Inc.

Mark Alan Wahl

Derek R Schweikarth

Donald Woods

Meghan Smith

Gary Meredith, Sr

Paula Schmidt

Greg Daily

Neil D Broeker

David Kyle Murray

Jay M Henriott

Ronald Willard Baker

Philip Jerome Heink

James Philip Harden

Jean Marie Massie

Royden Thomas Kern

Sean David Smith

Stephen Francis DeFosse

Michael Wesley Baskette

Andrew Charles Hogan

Randall Steven Gall

Lisa A May

Douglas B Prickett

Timothy S Binkley

Joshua A Peter

Hishikesh Pramod Gogate

Joshua R Butcher

Chair

Table

Lounge

A connecting arrangement for articles of furniture, such as seating furniture and/or tables of the type used in an office environment. A pair of articles of furniture are positioned adjacent to one another, each including a downwardly-opening channel along a lower portion of its side. An elongate connector spans the distance between the channels and has opposite side portions in respective engagement with the channels to connect the furniture articles together in a manner wherein the connector may be visually hidden in use. If one, or both, of the connected articles of furniture includes upholstered sides, the upholstery is compressed upon abutting engagement of the articles of furniture to generate a separation force which is resisted by the connector and aids in maintaining the connector in secure engagement with the channels of the adjacent articles of furniture. The connector may have substantially the same length as a distance between front and rear legs of the articles of furniture, such that the connector is engageable with the front and/or rear legs to restrain movement of the articles of furniture in a front-to-back direction with respect to one another.

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Santa Claus, IN, United States of America

Mark Alan Wahl