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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1996
Wallace C Bullwinkle, Norristown, PA (US);
Knoll, Inc., East Greenville, PA (US);
Abstract
An office partition panel is electrically attached to an adjacent panel and/or a power source line. The panel has a body to be mounted upright on a lower edge having an elongated weldment forming a channel opening upwardly. Frame elements engage between the body and the weldment, spacing the channel from the body and from a lowermost channel forming the lower edge of the panel. The weldment provides lateral access to the channel for laying in wiring. An electrical fixture such as an outlet receptacle is mounted along the channel, and the channel supports the electrical wiring terminating at the electrical fixture. The wiring path leads from the channel in one panel to an adjacent panel and a bridge channel element attaches to the weldment to extend the channel across a gap between the adjacent panels. A cover strip removably mountable on the lower edge covers the channel laterally for enclosing the electrical wiring, and a bridge cover strip covers the bridge channel element across the gap. The electrical wiring can be installed laterally into the channel, and terminated at the electrical fixture, for hardwiring the partition system, whereupon the channel is closed to safely enclose the wiring.