Patent ID: 7677182
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
1. A work space assembly for use by a pair of people where the pair of people include first and second persons, the system providing each of the first and second persons with a private space and also providing a shared space to be shared by the pair of people during collaboration, the assembly comprising: an enclosure wall supported by a floor surface and having first and second distal wall edges that are within an opening plane, the enclosure wall forming a station space including one open side between the distal edges, a rear portion of the enclosure wall spaced a station depth from the opening plane, the enclosure wall having an enclosure height of at least forty-eight inches above the floor surface; a table top having a table top length dimension between first and second oppositely facing ends that is less than the station depth dimension, the top having a table height of between forty and fifty-two inches above the floor surface; and a space divider screen having generally oppositely facing first and second edges, first and second side surfaces and where a top edge of the divider screen is at least sixty inches above the floor surface; wherein, the table top is positioned with the table top length dimension substantially perpendicular to the rear portion of the enclosure wall and extending between the rear portion and the opening plane and the first edge of the space divider screen is positioned at the second end of the table top with the space divider screen extending there from substantially parallel to the table top length dimension such that the top and the screen partition the station space into first and second subspaces.