Computer desk and workstation

• US 6,736,469 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2002
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kenneth W. Long
• Original Assignee: Kenneth W. Long
• Inventors: Long, Kenneth W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mai, Lanna
• Assistant Examiner(s): FITZGERALD, JOHN P
• Application Number:
  US10/042,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20020100395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 312/223.3, 312/194, 312/208.1, 312/196, 108/50.01, 108/144.11, 248/917
• US Class Current: 312/223.3
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/00 Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards

Abstract

Flat prefabricated panels are fastened together to form a desk/computer workstation having an adjustable monitor support and an adjustable keyboard support. A vertical member on the monitor support panel which adjusts the position of a monitor is selectively movable along a slot formed therein. A slidable panel on the rear of the desk is used to control the height of the rear edge of the monitor support panel while slidable members on the inboard surfaces of side panels of the desk proper are used to adjust the height of the forward end of the monitor support panel. A keyboard support is adjustably mounted on the side panels by way of two pairs of flat panels. In a second embodiment, a hutch or equipment support shelf is mounted on the monitor support panel. The angle of an equipment support shelf of the hutch with respect to the horizontal is adjustable.

Claims

1. A desk arrangement comprising;

spaced first and second vertical side panels;

a monitor support panel having an upper supporting surface and a forward end pivotally mounted between the first and second side panels so as to be pivotal about an axis proximate a forward edge of the monitor support panel; and

a monitor positioning member mounted on said monitor support panel so as to project out of the upper flat surface of the monitor support panel and to be selectively positionable on said monitor support panel;

wherein said monitor support panel is formed with an elongate slot along which the monitor positioning member is slidable and wherein the monitor support member can be fixed in a selected position within the slot; and

further comprising a keyboard support panel adjustably supported on the side panels so as to be adjustable in both height and angle with respect to the side panels; and

wherein each of the side panels has a unitary vertically extending arm member,

wherein each of the vertically extending arms is provided with a groove on its inboard surface,

wherein the keyboard support panel is supported on the vertically extending arms by way of vertical displacement control members,

wherein the vertical displacement control members are each slotted to permit disposition of a clamp therethrough, and

wherein each of the vertical displacement control members have guide pins that slide in the grooves which are formed in the inboard surfaces of the arms.

2. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the forward end of the monitor support panel is pivotally supported on upper ends of first and second support members that are slidably supported respectively on inboard surfaces of the first and second side panels and that are adjustable positionable thereon by manually manipulable fastening members.

3. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a height adjustment panel slidably mounted on a cross member which interconnects the first and second side panels, the height adjustment panel supporting a rear end portion of the monitor support panel and including a manually manipulatable fastening arrangement which allows the position of the height adjustment panel to be adjusted and selectively fixed with respect to the cross member whereby the height of the rear edge of the monitor support panel is adjustable.

4. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the keyboard support panel is supported on the first and second side panels by a connection arrangement comprising:

first and second keyboard height adjustment panels which are respectively connected through elongate height adjustment slots formed in the first and second keyboard height adjustment panels and which are secured in selected positions by manually manipulable fastening members; and

first and second angle adjustment panels which are rigidly connected to a lower surface of the keyboard support panel and which have arcuate slots formed therein, the first and second angle adjustment panels being pivotally supported on the first and second height adjustment panels and adjustable to and fixable at predetermined angles with respect to the first and second height adjustment panels.

5. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a hutch which is fixed to the upper surface of the monitor support panel, said hutch comprising:

third and fourth side panels which are fixed to the monitor support panel; and

a shelf pivotally supported on the third and fourth side panels so as to be angularly adjustable with respect to the monitor support panel.

6. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the monitor positioning member has a shark fin-shape.

7. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 1, wherein the monitor positioning member has a trapezoidal shape.

8. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 2, further comprising an intermediate panel which is fastened between the first and second side panels at a location below the monitor support panel, and a base panel which is fastened between the first and second side panels proximate lower ends of the first and second side panels, the intermediate panel being formed with recesses through which the first and second support members extend.

9. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 2, further comprising a plurality of legs connected to an underside side of the base panel.

10. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 3, wherein the height adjustment panel has a trapezoidal shape and has an elongate vertically extending slot formed therein, the elongate slot cooperating with a clamp which is received in a threaded bore member embedded in the cross member.

11. A desk arrangement comprising:

a plurality of prefabricated essentially flat panels adapted to be assembled using fasteners, said plurality of panels comprising;

a monitor support panel which is adjustably supported on two vertical side panels so as to be adjustable in both height and angle;

a keyboard support panel which is adjustably supported on the two side panels; and

a monitor positioning member which projects upwardly from the monitor support panel and which is selectively securable in a selected position in an elongate slot formed in the monitor support panel; and

wherein each of the vertical side panels has a unitary vertically extending arm member,

wherein each of the vertically extending arms is provided with a groove on its inboard surface,

wherein the keyboard support panel is supported on the vertically extending arms by way of vertical displacement control members,

wherein the vertical displacement control members are each slotted to permit disposition of a clamp therethrough, and

wherein each of the vertical displacement control members have guide pins that slide in the grooves which are formed in the inboard surfaces of the arms.

12. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 11, wherein the monitor positioning member has a shark fin-shape.

13. A desk arrangement as set forth in claim 11, wherein the monitor positioning member has a trapezoidal shape.

14. A desk arrangement comprising:

a plurality of prefabricated essentially flat panels adapted to be assembled using fasteners, said plurality of panels comprising;

a tiltable monitor support panel which is adjustably supported on two vertical side panels so as to be adjustable in both height and angle;

a keyboard support panel which is adjustably supported on the two side panels;

a monitor positioning member which projects upwardly from the monitor support panel and which is selectively securable in a selected position in an elongate slot formed in the monitor support panel; and

a hutch which is supported on an upper surface of the tiltable monitor support panel so as to be tiltable therewith, the hutch having a shelf that is angularly adjustable with respect to the monitor support panel.