Sound attenuation panel arrangement with cabling accommodating capability for office furniture space divider systems

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5172530
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07609898

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A panel frame and an acoustical insert frame assembly therefor for office furniture space divider systems, which, as assembled, can be utilized in work stations for both sound attenuation and data and communication cable and wire equipment connection masking and pass through purposes as well as masking of slack purposes, in which the panel frame is formed by rigid top, bottom, and side rails to define an open center structure therebetween of quadrilateral configuration that forms the panel frame, and has the usual front and rear sides; the insert frame assembly is mounted on the panel frame to complete the panel, as by being mounted on the front side of the frame, or by having a separate but similar insert frame assembly mounted on the rear side of the frame; each insert frame assembly comprises a supplemental frame that seats within the panel frame open center and mounts within the supplemental frame composite material that both effects sound attenuation and, within the metes and bounds of the supplemental frame, presents an area of and through the insert frame assembly that is cutable, and in 'the field' if desired after installation, to form aperturing for local accommodation of data and communications cabling and wiring, as for slack take up of same within the panel, or for pass through purposes through the panel, or both, with the location or locations of such aperturing thus being at the option of the panel user.

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HNI TECHNOLOGIES INC414 EAST THIRD STREET MUSCATINE IA 52761

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Beaver, Donald V Brookfield, IL 1 63
Fishel, Duane D Oswego, IL 3 155

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