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Computer work station and printer cabinet

  • US 4,755,010 A
  • Filed: 04/06/1987
  • Issued: 07/05/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a work station for use with a computer having a printer attached thereto, said work station including an upright space-dividing wall panel, a desklike work surface means mounted on said wall panel and projecting horizontally outwardly from one side thereof in cantilevered fashion, said work surface means defining thereon an upper horizontally enlarged upper surface adapted to support a computer, and a cabinet structure attached to said panel adjacent the one side thereof and projecting outwardly therefrom in a cantilevered fashion, said cabinet structure being spaced upwardly above said work surface means, the improvement wherein said cabinet structure comprises:

  • a rigid cabinet frame formed by substantially parallel sidewalls joined together by substantially parallel top and bottom walls, the bottom wall defining a bottom shelf;

    upper and intermediate shelves disposed in vertically spaced relationship to one another and in generally parallel and vertically spaced relationship between said top and bottom walls, said upper shelf being horizontally slidably supported on said cabinet frame for movement between a closed position wherein the upper shelf is disposed within the interior of the frame and an open position wherein the upper shelf projects outwardly beyond a front side of the frame; and

    door means movably attached to said frame and normally closing off at least a part of the front side of said cabinet structure, said door means being movable between an open position wherein the door means is positioned adjacent the top wall of the frame and a closed position wherein the door means is substantially flush with and extends across the width of the front side of the frame, said door means when in said closed position projecting downwardly through a sufficient vertical extent as to vertically extend between the top wall and the intermediate shelf so as to define closed upper and intermediate compartments which are defined behind the door means and respectively above the upper and intermediate shelves;

    each of said upper and intermediate shelves having paper-receiving opening means extending vertically therethrough adjacent the rear edge thereof;

    whereby a printer can be supported on said upper shelf, a paper supply supported on the intermediate shelf, a paper web fed upwardly from the supply through the opening means in the upper shelf to the printer, and a paper web discharged from the printer downwardly through the opening means of the upper and intermediate shelves for collection on the bottom shelf.

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