Patent ID: 6076474
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
A freestanding support system for supporting a plurality of worksurfaces and overhead storage units and the like in an open office environment and for dividing the open office environment into a plurality of workstations, said freestanding support system comprising:a plurality of legs, each leg having a bottom portion adapted for resting on a floor, a top horizontal support adapted for receiving thereon a portion of at least one of the worksurfaces, and a vertical support maintaining said bottom portion and said top horizontal support in a fixed vertically spaced relationship, said vertical support including a rear edge having a plurality of vertically aligned holes therealong in a predefined regularly spaced pattern, at least two of said legs are end legs and at least one of said legs is an intermediate leg positioned between said at least two end legs;a plurality of stretchers, each stretcher having two ends, each of said ends attached to an upper portion of one of said end legs maintaining said end legs in a parallel, horizontally disposed relationship, said stretcher having in a rear face therealong a plurality of horizontally aligned holes therealong in a predefined regularly spaced pattern; andat least two support posts, a first support post substantially in alignment with a first of said legs and having a bottom portion attached to at least one of said vertically aligned holes in said vertical support of said leg, and at least a second support post substantially in alignment with a second of said legs and having a bottom portion attached to at least one of said vertically aligned holes in said vertical support of said second of said legs wherein one of said first and second legs is said intermediate leg, each said support post having an upper end adapted to support a portion of the overhead storage unit above the worksurfaces, thereby permitting the incorporation of an overhead storage unit with a given worksurface of a different length.