Privacy screen

• US 9,414,697 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2014
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inscape Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inscape Corporation
• Inventors: Parshad, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, Katherine
• Assistant Examiner(s): DENION, SCOTT T
• Application Number:
  US14/340,799
• Publication Number:
  US 20160024787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 160/135, 160/351
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 5/00 Screens shutters closing an opening E06B9/02; fly-screens E06B9/52; Draught-deflectors
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7422 with separate framed panels without intermediary support posts
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7427 with adjustable angular connection of panels

Abstract

A modular privacy panel with a concave front surface and a parallel convex rear surface which panel is adapted to be disposed in side by side abutting relation with identical adjacent panels and provide a resultant combination screen with both faces appearing as a serpentine shape as seen in top view.

Claims

1. A manually movable workplace dividing privacy screen panel comprising:

a flour engaging base,

a central screen integrally supported on the base and extending vertically upwardly from the base,

the screen having a front surface extending from a screen bottom proximate the base upwardly to a screen top and spanning between a first screen side and a second screen side,

the screen having a rear surface extending from the screen bottom proximate the base upwardly to the screen top and spanning between the first screen side and the second screen side,

a first wing screen pivotably mounted to the central screen along the first screen side for pivoting about a vertical first axis from a closed position in which the first wing screen overlies the central screen to opened positions in which the first wing screen extends laterally away from the central screen,

a second wing screen pivotably mounted to the central screen along the second screen side for pivoting about a vertical second axis from a closed position in which the second wing screen overlies the central screen to opened positions in which the second wing screen extends laterally away from the central screen,

the base being elongate and extending along a straight base longitudinal from a first base side edge underneath the first screen side to a second base side edge underneath the second screen side,

the base having a front base edge extending from the first base side edge to the second base side edge,

the base having a rear base edge extending from the first base side edge to the second base side edge,

a wheel member journalled to the base for rotation about a wheel axis parallel the longitudinal,

the wheel member carried by the base such that, when the base in a supporting rest position engages the floor to support the central screen to extend vertically upwardly therefrom, the wheel member is spaced from engagement with the floor, however, when the panel is pivoted relative the floor about the wheel axis to a tilted transport position, the wheel member engages the floor for rolling engagement facilitating manual rolling movement of the panel while maintained in the transport position along the floor in a direction normal to the wheel axis,

the panel is of a size and weight to be manually moved by one individual between the rest position and the transport position and when in the rest position for repositioning on the floor.

2. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the wheel member comprises an elongate roller with a floor engaging surface disposed coaxially about the wheel axis.

3. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 2 wherein the base includes a slot vertically there through extending parallel the wheel axis within which the roller is located.

4. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 3 wherein the rear base edge is a convex curved rear surface, the wheel member is centered relative the base between the base first side edge and the base second side edge at a location where the convex curved rear surface extends farthest rearwardly relative the longitudinal of the base.

5. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the front surface is a concave curved surface as seen in top view and the rear surface being a convex curved rear surface parallel to the front surface.

6. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 3 wherein the first base edge being straight and normal to the base longitudinal, the second base side edge being straight and parallel to the first base side edge.

7. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 3 wherein the base comprises a planar support plate having as edges the first base side edge, the second base side edge, the rear base edge and the front base edge.

8. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 7 including floor engaging feet carried on the support plate extending downwardly from the support plate to engage the floor in the rest position such that the base is supported in the rest position on the floor by merely the engagement of the feet with the floor.

9. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 4 wherein the first base edge being straight and normal to the base longitudinal, the second base side edge being straight and parallel to the first base side edge.

10. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 9 wherein the base comprises a planar support plate having as edges the first base side edge, the second base side edge, the rear base edge and the front base edge.

11. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 10 including floor engaging feet carried on the support plate extending downwardly from the support plate to engage the floor in the rest position such that the base is supported in the rest position on the floor by merely the engagement of the feet with the floor.

12. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first screen side does not extend laterally past the first base side edge and the second screen side does not extend laterally past the second base side edge.

13. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 9 wherein the first screen side does not extend laterally past the first base side edge and the second screen side does not extend laterally past the second base side edge.

14. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 3 wherein the wheel axis is parallel to the base longitudinal.

15. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 4 herein the wheel axis is parallel to the base longitudinal.

16. A privacy screen panel as claimed in claim 9 wherein the wheel axis is parallel to the base longitudinal.