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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles Heidmann, Strasbourg, FR;
Assignee:
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04B / ; H02G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
52220 ; 52290 ; 52242 ; 174 48 ; 339 23 ;
Abstract
A movable room divider or partition is provided with a raceway for communication cables, and other casual wiring. The raceway comprises a U-shaped channel connected with the partition and extending along and beneath the base of the partition. The channel has a rigid web for supporting the cables, and a pair of upstanding flanges with free edges disposed adjacent the partition base to enclose the raceway. At least one of the flanges is resiliently flexible to permit localized, elastic deformation of the flange for inserting and withdrawing the cables from the raceway.