Patent ID: 6601931
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
An assembly for supporting a flat monitor in adjacent but underlying relationship to an aperture defined through a desk-type working platform,said aperture having aperture perimeter portions that are generally defined by adjacent body portions of said working platform, said monitor generally having a flattened, rectangular configuration with opposed, flattened respective front and back side portions, and with opposed pairs of monitor perimeter edge portions that extend generally and peripherally around and between said front and back side portions, said front side portion incorporating a monitor viewing screen, and said back side portion and said perimeter edge portions comprising a flat monitor case moiety, said assembly for supporting comprising in combination: an aperture frame for adjacently extending about said aperture perimeter portions; a flat monitor support platform upon which at least parts of said monitor back side portion can rest when said platform is in a generally horizontal orientation, and joining components extending between and interconnecting portions of said aperture frame with portions of said flat monitor support platform so that said flat monitor support platform is generally in adjacent relationship relative to said aperture frame; the relationship between said aperture frame, said flat monitor support platform, and said joining components being such that said flat monitor is supportable by said flat monitor support platform with said flat monitor support platform being generally suspended from said aperture frame when said aperture frame so extends about said aperture perimeter portions, and said monitor viewing screen when said flat monitor is so supported is viewable through said aperture.