Self-supporting data processing desk module with detachable and longitudinally shiftable exhaust fan assembly and adjustable angle, reversible video deck bridges with front and rear continuous sweep grommets

• US 5,678,907 A
• Filed: 12/27/1995
• Issued: 10/21/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Woodtronics Incorporated (SPBS, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Woodtronics Incorporated (SPBS, Inc.)
• Inventors: Schainholz, Alfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Gerald A.
• Application Number:
  US08/579,431
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• Field of Search: 312/223.6, 312/223.3, 312/223.1, 312/194, 312/196
• US Class Current: 312/223.6
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/06 Desks with inlet and evacuation of air
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 83/001 Office desks or work-stations combined with other pieces of furniture, e.g. work space management systems

Abstract

A trading desk cluster of back-to-back, side-to-side paired desk modules employs a generally enclosed cabinet for mounting internally electronic data processing equipment, which develops high heat under load. The enclosed cabinet includes an apertured front wall for passage of cooling air and carries internally a fan assembly including a box-like plenum chamber, from which rises at the rear an upright outlet duct sized smaller than the open lower end of a vertical chimney at the rear of the desk. Tilting of the fan assembly permits the outlet duct to project vertically upward within the chimney and locked to the lower end thereof. The fan assembly is mounted on an angle bar for tilting and for supporting the fan assembly for sliding longitudinally to a position so as to overlie and be centered with the underlying processing equipment such as a CPU. A plurality of side-by-side flat video bridges are detachably interfitted between a rear edge of the desk top work surface and the back panel and extend coplanar with the desk top work surface. Each flat video bridge has at least one rectangular flat panel and a continuous brush-type sweep grommet extending lengthwise along at least one of front and rear edges of the panel. The bridges may be reversibly front-to-back mounted and may be hinged along one front or rear edge for adjustable oblique inclination of the bridge panels. The communication cables pass readily through the brush bristles of the grommets for facilitating connections between internal and external data processing equipment.

Claims

1. In a data processing desk comprising:

an elongated parallelepiped frame having a front, a rear, a top and longitudinally spaced opposite sides, a desk top on said frame defining a horizontal front work surface, an upright back panel fixed to said frame and extending vertically at the rear thereof and extending vertically upwardly above said front work surface and being spaced rearwardly from said work surface, the improvement comprising;

a plurality of side-by-side flat video bridges fitted between a rear edge of said desk top work surface and said back panel and extending coplanar to said desk top work surface,

each of said flat video bridges comprising at least one rectangular flat panel, a pair of side panel mounting beams underlying said at least one panel along laterally opposite sides thereof, a continuous brush type sweep grommet extending lengthwise along at least one of said front and rear edges of said at least one panel, and means for mounting said opposite ends of said beams respectively to said open frame and said back panel.

2. The data processing desk as claimed in claim 1, wherein said back panel includes a plurality of vertically spaced horizontal grooves on a front face thereof, and said side beams terminate at ends remote from said desk top work surface in axial pins sized to and penetrating a selected groove of said back panels for supporting said at least one panel at a rear thereof to said back panel.

3. The data processing desk as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a tapered notch within the bottom of each said side beams at a front end thereof to permit the bridge to be supported at a slight angle to the plane of said desk top work surface.

4. The data processing desk as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one flat video bridge panel comprises a pair of sectional panels in front to rear edge abutment, each including a sweep grommet along at least one of a front and rear edge thereof.

5. The data processing desk as claimed in claim 4, further comprising means for reversibly, fore and aft detachably mounting one of said sectional panels to said side beams.

6. The data processing desk as claimed in claim 4, further comprising hinge means for pivotably mounting at least one of said panels to said side beams for pivoting about a horizontal axis parallel to one of a front and rear edge thereof and being positioned adjacent to said one edge for placing said bridge panel in raised oblique position relative to the other of said two panels.

7. The data processing desk as claimed in claim 6, further comprising ratchet means interposed between at least one of said beams and said at least one panel for releasably maintaining said one panel at said adjustably raised oblique position.