Patent ID: 7481502
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
1. An office furnishing, comprising: an office desk adapted for use within a private office and adapted to enable an office desk user to provide additional desktop workspace and accommodate at least two additional participants in a private meeting within said private office, said office desk including a pair of opposing side panels, each side panel having a front end portion, a rear end portion, a top end portion and a bottom end portion, and a rectangular desktop panel horizontally disposed onto and attached near opposite width ends of said rectangular desktop panel to said top end portions of the opposing side panels, wherein opposite length ends of said rectangular desktop panel define a front of said office desk associated with a first length end of said rectangular top panel and a rear of said office desk associated with a second length of said rectangular desktop panel wherein the rear of said office desk has a cavity formed between said pair of opposing side panels and beneath the rectangular top panel wherein part of an office chair and user legs can be stowed; at least one desk drawer movably installed at the rear of said desk beneath and centered within said rectangular desktop panel and between said pair of opposing side panels, said at least one desk drawer adapted to be moved from a closed storage position beneath said rectangular desktop panel into an opened access position located away from the rear of said desk and said closed storage position; a rectangular front panel attached by control hardware along a first length end of said rectangular front panel to the front of said office desk near said first length end of said rectangular desktop panel, said rectangular front panel adapted to be stowed in a flat vertical position against the front of said office desk beneath said first length of said rectangular top panel when not required for the provision of additional office desktop workspace and wherefrom the rectangular front panel and said hardware is adapted to be rotated 90 degrees vertically and swung 90 degrees horizontally into a deployed horizontal position wherein one end of the front panel is located and touching near the front, center of the desktop and the opposite end is located furthest way from the front, center of the desk, thereby converting the desktop and the front panel into a T-shaped workspace for use by multiple collaborators, wherein said control hardware adapted to restrict movement speed by said rectangular front panel during its movement between stowed and deployed positions and adapted to enable the rectangular front panel to be physically manipulated into deployed or storage positions with respect to said office desk by a single user; at least one support member movable from a storage location beneath said rectangular top panel into a supporting position beneath said rectangular front panel after said rectangular front panel is deployed into additional office desktop; and at least one leg stowed within the front panel and adapted to be swung ninety degrees into a supporting position at the opposite end of the front panel located furthest away from the front, center of the desk.