Break down desk assembly

• US 7,942,100 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Issued: 05/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: True Seating Concepts LLC
• Original Assignee: True Seating Concepts LLC
• Inventors: Baker, Burke, Hazzard, Thomas B., Grove, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, JOSE V
• Application Number:
  US11/825,871
• Publication Number:
  US 20090013908A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• Field of Search: 108/50.01, 108/50.02, 108/153.1, 108/180, 108/182, 108/186, 108/192, 108/193, 312/195, 312/196, 312/223.6, 312/223.2, 312/223.1
• US Class Current: 108/50.02
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 1/05 the leaves being extensible by drawing-out
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/003 Connecting table tops to underframes connecting furniture tubing to non-tubular parts F16B12/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/06 characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/06 with separable parts
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/12 Stowable tables with detachable top leaves

Abstract

A break down desk is disclosed to facilitate an efficient storage disassembly and transport in compact shipping containers. The break down desk may be quickly and easily assembled and disassembled without the use of traditional tools and fasteners and with a minimal of assistance. A removable desktop is detachably connected to and across a pair of opposing side panels. The removable desktop includes a primary writing surface at the front, a file/paper stacking surface located behind the primary writing surface, and a pair of detachable side wings. A wire management channel, through which to receive an electrical wire from an electrical apparatus, runs around the desktop between the primary writing surface, the file/stacking surface, and the side wings. A cable routing trough, to guide the cable from an AC power strip received therewithin towards a source of power, is detachably connected between the pair of opposing side panels below the desktop. A cable access door is pivotally attached to the file/stacking surface of the desktop to be rotatable from a closed position, at which to prevent access to the cable routing trough through the desktop, to an open position, at which to permit access to the cable routing trough through the desktop.

Claims

1. A desk capable of being assembled without the use of tools, said desk comprising:

a pair of desk sides spaced from one another;

a desktop detachably connected between said pair of desk sides by means of a plurality of locks carried by said desktop and moved into locking engagement with said pair of desk sides;

a cross beam located below said desktop and extending between said pair of desk sides; and

a bracket affixed to each of said pair of desk sides and a gap formed in each of the first and opposite ends of said cross beam, said bracket having an upstanding bracket portion projecting away from a respective one of said pair of desk sides,

said bracket portion being slidably and removably received within the gap formed in one of said first and opposite ends of said cross beam, whereby said cross beam is detachably connected to said pair of desk sides without the use of tools.

2. The desk recited in claim 1, wherein said desktop has a writing surface including first and opposite sides and a pair of side wings detachably connected to respective ones of said first and opposite sides to increase the size of said writing surface.

3. The desk recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one first coupling member located on each of said pair of side wings and at least one complementary coupling member located on each of the first and opposite sides of said writing surface in opposing alignment with said first coupling member, said first coupling member and said one complementary coupling member being slidably and removably mated to one another, whereby said pair of side wings are detachably connected to said respective ones of the first and opposite sides of said writing surface.

4. The desk recited in claim 1, wherein each of said pair of desk sides has at least one riser projecting therefrom by which to support said desktop, said plurality of locks carried by said desktop being moved into the said locking engagement with said pair of desk sides at respective ones of the said at least one riser projecting therefrom.

5. The desk recited in claim 4, wherein each of said plurality of said locks carried by said desktop includes a lock body and a locking pin slidable through said lock body and into said locking engagement with said at least one riser projecting from each of said pair of desk sides.

6. The desk recited in claim 1, also comprising a cable routing guide to receive an electrical cable to be routed to a source of electrical power, said cable routing guide detachably connected between said pair of desk sides below said desktop.

7. The desk recited in claim 6, wherein each desk side of said pair of desk sides has a hollow interior and a cable routing hole, said cable routing hole communicating with each of the hollow interior of said desk side and said cable routing guide to establish a cable routing path from said cable routing guide to the hollow interior of said desk side by way of said cable routing hole.

8. The desk recited in claim 6, wherein said desktop includes a cable access door located above said cable routing guide, said cable access door moving from a closed position to block access to said cable routing guide through said desktop to an open position to permit access to said cable routing guide through said desktop.

9. The desk recited in claim 1, wherein the upstanding bracket portion of said bracket has at least one slot formed therein, said desk further comprising a pin extending across the gap at each of said first and opposite ends of said cross beam, said pin being removably received within the slot of the upstanding bracket portion of said bracket by which said cross beam is detachably connected to said pair of desk sides without the use of tools.

10. The desk recited in claim 6, wherein said cable routing guide includes a wall extending between and detachably connected to said pair of desk sides so as to be spaced from and lie opposite said cross beam below said desktop, and a bottom extending between said cross beam and said wall.

11. The desk recited in claim 10, wherein the bottom of said cable routing guide is connected to and extends outwardly from said wall thereof towards said cross beam.

12. The desk recited in claim 10, wherein the wall of said cable routing guide has at least one pin projecting from each side thereof and each of said pair of desk sides has a groove formed therein, the pins projecting from the sides of said wall being slidably received by respective ones of the grooves formed in said desk sides, whereby said wall is detachably connected to said pair of desk sides.