Patent ID: 6951085

Claim:
A free-standing partition comprising: a partition frame including at least a pair of horizontally-spaced-apart vertically-extending uprights and including at least a pair of vertically-spaced-apart horizontal channels, the uprights and channels being secured rigidly together to form a right framework adapted to be interconnected to adjacent similar frames in a freestanding arrangement to subdivide a building space; the pair of channels each having a bottom wall and upstanding side walls that define at least one horizontal passageway completely across the partition frame between vertical side edges of the partition frame, with first portions of the bottom walls extending transversely across the uprights and creating space adapted to support wiring routed horizontally across the uprights and with second portions of the bottom walls extending between the uprights and adapted to store and support the wiring within and across an interior of the partition frame; the pair of channels including first end surfaces that extend to and define a part of the vertical side edges of the partition frame, the first end surfaces extending at least as far as outer second end surfaces on the uprights that also form part of the vertical side edges; and cover panels releasably attached to the frame for covering front and rear sides of the frame, but adapted to provide access to the wiring routed within and stored on the channels within the partition frame.