Structure room divider height extension

• US 5,490,357 A
• Filed: 06/30/1994
• Issued: 02/13/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: UB Office Systems, Inc. (Itoki Corporation)
• Original Assignee: UB Office Systems, Inc. (Itoki Corporation)
• Inventors: Lin, Ching-Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HORTON, YVONNE MICHELE
• Application Number:
  US08/269,805
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 52/592.6, 52/238.1, 52/239, 52/220.7
• US Class Current: 52/220.7
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7416 with free upper edge, e.g. for use as office space dividers
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2002/7488 Details of wiring

Abstract

The invention relates to a room divider height extension, specifically referring to a kind installed onto an existent lower room divider to increase the original height, with three inverted-U shaped support tabs welded along the bottom edge. Furthermore, there are semicircular tabs protruding from the lower edge of the left and right aforesaid support tabs that are inserted into the U-shaped slots along the upper edge of the existent room divider, and when the room divider height extension and the existent room divider are firmly assembled together, a square tunnel is formed for the placement of electric power lines, telephone lines, computer cables within the improved structure, all of which comprise the primary innovations of the invention herein.

Claims

1. A room divider height extension that includes:

An original room divider structurally consisting of an oblong partition that has a U-shaped slot along the upper edge and on two sides of the aforesaid slot are openings for the insertion of electric power lines, furthermore, there are square holes arrayed at equal intervals on the lower portion of the aforementioned slot;

A room divider height extension structurally consisting of an oblong panel that has three inverted-U shaped support tabs welded to the bottom edge and the two sides of the aforesaid support tabs are slanted inwards at a slight angle;

furthermore, the width of the aforesaid support tabs is identical to the inner lateral width of the aforementioned U-shaped slot on the aforementioned original room divider to facilitate the insertion of the aforesaid support tabs into the aforesaid U-shaped slot;

the inverted-U shaped support tabs of the aforementioned room divider height extension, further comprising four semicircular tabs protruding from the left and the right lower edges of the aforesaid support tabs, wherein the aforesaid four semicircular tabs are utilized for insertion into the aforementioned square holes arrayed at equal intervals on the lower portion of the aforementioned U-shaped slot along the upper edge of the aforementioned original room divider and to tightly assemble the aforesaid room divider extension to the aforesaid original room divider, while the insertion together of the aforesaid support tabs and the aforesaid U-shape slot forms a line/cable tunnel that accommodates the hidden installation of electric power lines as well as facilitates simple height adjustment during the installation process.