Privacy booth

• US 4,986,330 A
• Filed: 05/30/1989
• Issued: 01/22/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Patrick E. Mcgonagle
• Original Assignee: Patrick E. Mcgonagle
• Inventors: McGonagle, Patrick E.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/357,958
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 52/36, 52/239, 52/70, 52/71, 160/135, 160/351, 160/229.1, 108/33, 108/34, 108/35, 108/41, 108/111, 108/115, 108/152
• US Class Current: 160/135
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 1/1255 Voting booths

Abstract

A collapsible privacy booth, for example a polling booth, includes a plurality of partition members mounted together for pivotable movement from a storage position in a which the partition members are in superimposed side-by-side relationship to an in-use position in which the partition members extend substantially radially away from a common vertical axis to define at least two separate compartments. Each partition member includes a table top pivotable along a lower edge of the partition member and movable from a storage position folded against the partition member to an in-use position in which the table top extends between the two partition members defining the compartment. Telescopic support legs for the partition members permit adjustment of the height of the table tops.

Claims

1. A privacy booth comprising:

a plurality of partition members pivotably mounted together for movement from a storage position in which the partition members are in superimposed side-by-side relationship to an in-use position in which the partition members extend substantially radially away from a common vertical axis to define at least two separate compartments;

a plurality of table tops pivotably connected to a respective one of the plurality of partition members and movable from a storage position in which the table top is folded against the partition member to an in-use position in which the table top extends between the adjacent ones of said plurality of partition members, wherein an area between adjacent ones of said plurality of partition members defines a compartment; and

means for dismantling at least one of said plurality of partition members into a storage position thereby removing a single compartment, wherein remaining ones of said plurality of partition members remain in an in-use position.

2. A privacy booth as claimed in claim 1, further including adjustable support legs for each of said plurality of partition members thereby enabling adjustment of the height of the plurality of table tops.

3. A privacy booth as claimed in claim 2, wherein the outer edge of each of said plurality of partition members is hollow and accomodates a telescopic support leg.

4. A privacy booth comprising at least four partition members having inner and outer edges with said inner edges being pivoted together for movement of the partition members from a storage position in which the partition members are in superimposed side-by-side relationship to an in-use position in which the partition members extend substantially radially away from a common vertical axis to define a plurality of separate compartments equal in number to the number of partition members, the said outer edges of the partition members having respective legs which are extendable below the partition members to support the partition members above ground level, wherein one of each pair of partition members defining a compartment includes a table top having two side edges containing an angle of no greater than 90°

with one of said side edges being pivoted along a substantially horizontal axis to the partition member, the table top being pivotable about said one side edge from a storage position in which the table top is folded up against the said partition member to an in-use position in which the other of said side edges engages substantially horizontally along the other partition member of the pair, whereby in the in-use position the table top extends substantially horizontally between the two partition members defining the compartment with the angle between the partition members being substantially equal to the said angle between the tow edges of the table top.

5. A privacy booth as claimed in claim 4, wherein the outer edges of the partition members are hollow and the said legs are accomodated telescopically within said outer edges.