Steelcase Inc.

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Michael L Deimen

Arnold B Dammermann

Randall P Nelsen

Michael E Wurth

Terence M Duncan

Robert Larry Stewart

Edmund X Klipa

Frank A Friedman

James Rolfe Yurchenco

David M Webster

Mark T Slager

Annetta M Papadopoulos

Kristine Rene Chan-Lizardo

Royal A Kent

Thomas R Maas

Jon R Mullen

Carolyn M Varellas-Olree

Diego A Rodriguez

Gale F Wilcox

Linda M Parker

Alan L Pearson

Gary H Grund

Craig S DeDamos

David A Feutz

James G Paulsen

David S Teppo

Charles P Roossien

Charles G Humphrey

Karl Jahn Mead

David C Jenkins

David A Bodnar

David N Hodge

Michael L Mercier

Ting-Wen Nieh

Donald K Sandberg

Thomas F Crissler

David L Rundhaug

Erik Nielsen

Subur Tjandra

Paul B Siebert

Duane F Nagel

David D Sayers

Gary S Juhlin

Timothy R Stern

Thomas R Hahn

Arnold B Dammerman

Gordy Peterson

Kevin J DeWeerd

Charles G Humphrey, Deceased

An armrest structure includes a support and a body rotatably mounted on the support. The support includes a pair of protrusions and the body includes a notched channel for receiving the protrusions. By rotating the body on the support, the protrusions are repositioned in the notched channel between selected stable use positions. The notches are located on both sides of the channel such that the body can be located in a first position with the first surface on the body facing generally upwardly for use, and a second position with the second surface on the body facing generally upwardly for use. By varying the surfaces on the body, and also the engagement of the protrusion with the notched channel, various spacial positions and functional surfaces can be selectively positioned for use.

Articulating armrest

A table construction includes a base having a pair of legs secured together by a transverse beam, and a tabletop pivoted to a top of the legs for movement between a horizontal use position and a vertical storage position. A pair of support arms are pivoted to the top of the legs for selectively holding the tabletop in the horizontal use position. The support arms are spring-biased and pivoted at an angle so that they counterbalance a weight of the tabletop during its pivotal movement. Ganging connectors on opposite ends of the tabletop automatically interconnect adjacent tables upon pushing adjacent tables together. The legs each include first and second castings that bolt together and that are arranged to matably nest when tables are moved together for storage. A utility raceway structure attached to the base includes a frame that defines upper and lower chambers and further includes upper and lower lockable doors providing separate access to the upper and lower chambers, respectively. A utility outlet is releasably attached to the frame, and includes a face accessible in the first chamber and includes a utility supply connector accessible from below the upper transverse beam. A utility supply conduit is positioned in the second chamber and operably connected to the utility supply connector.

Table configured for utilities, ganging and storage

Table leg

Table

A modular power and cable distribution system includes an elongate member having a top flange which is configured to be mounted to a worksurface, a vertical web extending downwardly from the top flange, and a bottom flange which includes a connector configured to detachably support at least one of a trough mounted laterally adjacent to the elongate member, a closure panel which together with the elongate member defines an enclosed powerway, and a modesty panel depending from the elongate member. The disclosed power and cable distribution system includes alignment members for facilitating and maintaining proper alignment of adjacent elongate members mounted on connected worksurfaces, gap trim pieces for covering gaps between adjacent, aligned powerways and/or cableways, and an infeed trim piece for feeding conduits or cables into the distribution system.

Modular power and cable distribution system

A modular wireway which is adapted to be utilized with easily mountable, demountable and remountable attachments includes an elongate member which is mountable to a support surface and at least one connector which is adapted for mating with a connector on a removably attachable cable management trough or a removably attachable modesty panel, or both. The disclosed elongate member has a generally I-shaped transverse cross-section and includes an upper horizontal flange member configured to be mounted on a support bracket secured to a support surface, a web which depends from the upper horizontal flange member, and a lower attachment flange connected to the lower end of the web. The attachment flange includes one or more connectors which allow attachment of one or more removable closures which together with the elongate member define an enclosed raceway, a rigidly connected auxiliary cable management trough, a hingedly connected cable management trough, and/or a modesty panel. The modular wireway invention allows furniture and the like to be quickly and easily configured and reconfigured as desired to provide powerways and auxiliary wireways for communication cables.

Table wire trough

Seating unit

Chair

Chair actuator

Growing community of inventors

Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

Michael L Deimen