Modular furniture with covered wiring passage

Details Modular furniture with covered wiring passage Modular furniture with covered wiring passage

1999-08-12

2001-06-05

Wilkens, Janet M. (Department: 3636)

Supports: cabinet structure

Sectional-unit type

C312S265600, C312S223600, C403S381000, C108S050020

Reexamination Certificate

active

06241329

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the present invention relate to modular furniture for use with electronic equipment and particularly to wiring passages between modules.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Office and home-office furniture typically supports a computer system, entertainment system, or communication system formed from electronic equipment cabled together and cabled to utility receptacles for access to facility wiring for power, telephone, video, radio, intercom, security, and data networks. With interest in offices located in residences, there is a growing demand for office furniture that is finished to coordinate with residential furniture. Conventional wiring passages and covers detract from the aesthetic finish of known office furniture of the type amendable to coordination with residential furniture. Without an aesthetically pleasing and practically functional furniture module having a wiring passage and cover, the market for home-office furniture cannot be fully satisfied.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Solving the problems presented above, a furniture system, according to various aspects of the present invention, includes several furniture modules arranged with one abutting the next. Each module includes a first outer surface and a second outer surface, each outer surface having a respective channel and a respective aperture located within the respective channel. Each interface between abutting modules comprises at least two outer surfaces positioned to align respective apertures of the outer surfaces for passage of cabling between modules of the system. The system also includes several covers each slidingly engaged in a respective outer surface not included at any interface to conceal the respective aperture.
Covering an aperture with a sliding cover may eliminate the need for fasteners to keep the cover in place and may eliminate from view any indication that the aperture exists behind the cover. The exposed lines of the channel may be incorporated into the trim design of the furniture, providing an integral appearance.


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