US20040182035A1 - Interlocking partition and panel system - Google Patents
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- FIG. 2 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the members 200 of the present invention capable of capturing a member such as panel member 1000 and mating with a member such as member 100 .
- FIG. 5 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention.
- Member 500 provides two opposed female dovetail features 50 and 51 in which members with male dovetail features, such as member 200 , or similar members having a male dovetail feature, can be received.
- the two opposed member 500 female dovetail features 50 and 51 illustrated in FIG. 5 are mirror images.
- member 500 becomes a device for joining two coplanar panels 1000 .
Abstract
A system of interlocking components that provides on-site assembly of frames for holding panels of any solid material or cloth. The frame components can be manufactured in a variety of shapes, and can be cut to accommodate desired panel dimensions and orientations, thus providing customized temporary or permanent partitioning in a timely and cost-effective manner.
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- This application claims priority from provisional patent application 60/456,692 filed Mar. 21, 2003.
- The present invention relates generally to the construction field. More specifically, the present invention relates to the fields of customized, remodeled, and partitioned indoor and outdoor residential, commercial, and recreational spaces.
- Living, working, and recreational spaces frequently must be divided into partitions. Restaurants are required by municipal ordinance to provide designated non-smoking areas. Population growth and constrained budgets force schools to divide classrooms, libraries, or laboratories. Museums may need temporary panels for displaying loaned art or permanent dividers for displaying donated art. Businesses may need to quickly partition spaces to accommodate unplanned workforce expansion, new product lines, or the addition of employee daycare facilities. Newly implemented security concerns have forced airports to quickly add passenger and baggage screening area partitions, and could present a need for emergency containment of airborne contaminants and toxins.
- There are many needs for temporary, semi-permanent, and permanent partitions and walls for which typical construction methods are too time-consuming and costly. There is a need for economical, quickly constructed dividers, panels, barriers, sound baffles, decorations, theater sets, animal corrals, children play areas, or other divisions of space. The present invention enhances the construction field with a system of pre-formed interlocking components that can be cut to desired lengths and assembled on site into frames that can be anchored to any solid surface with conventional fasteners and adhesives. The frames can receive and hold panels of any solid material including wood, composite, metal, granite, glass, plastic, sheetrock, and cloth. A plurality of frames can be interlocked with each other in parallel, perpendicular, or other angular orientations to form customized partitions and walls. The present invention permits on-site construction of customized partitions and walls in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- FIG. 1 is an end view of one embodiment of a base member100 of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the
members 200 of the present invention capable of capturing a member such aspanel member 1000 and mating with a member such as member 100. - FIG. 2a is an isometric view of one embodiment of one of the
members 200 of the present invention capable of capturing a member such aspanel member 1000 and mating with a member such as member 100. - FIG. 3 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the
members 300 of the present invention capable of mating with a member such asmember 200. - FIG. 4 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the
members 400 of the present invention capable of mating with one or two members such asmember 200. - FIG. 5 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the
members 500 of the present invention capable of mating with one or two members such asmember 200. - FIG. 6 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the
members 600 of the present invention capable of mating with one or two members such asmember 200. - FIG. 7 is an end view of one embodiment of one of the
members 700 of the present invention capable of mating with as many as four members such asmember 200. - FIG. 8 is an end view of one embodiment of a present invention frame assembly comprising a base member100, two
members 200, amember 400, and apanel member 1000. - FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention. It is a two-part base member100.
Member 1 can be attached with conventional fasteners or adhesives to asurface 99 upon or against which a partition or wall of the present invention is to be attached. - FIG. 2 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention. When the male dovetail feature, as commonly understood in the carpentry and building trades, of
member 2 is received and seated in the female dovetail feature of member 100, created by the proximity ofmembers member 4 of member 100 is pushed againstmember 1 of member 100 and attached to mountingsurface 99, tomember 1, or both,member 2 is captured and secured. Apanel 1000 can be secured inmember 200 by capturing it betweenmember 2 andmember 5 and securingmember 5 tomember 2 with any number of readily available fasteners, including nails, screws, clamps, or adhesives. - FIG. 2a illustrates a
panel member 1000 captured in one embodiment ofmember 200.Member 5 is pushed againstmembers panel member 1000 is securely captured. - FIG. 3 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention. The female dovetail feature of
member 7 can receive any member having a matching male dovetail feature. For example, the female dovetail feature ofmember 7 can receive the male dovetail feature ofmember 2, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, thus creating a member comprised ofmembers panel 1000 can be secured inmember 300 by capturing it betweenmember 7 andmember 6 and securingmember 6 tomember 7 with any number of readily available fasteners, such as screws, or adhesives. Thus, the composite member consisting ofmembers panels 1000. - FIG. 4 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention.
Member 400 provides for extension of partitions and walls. It provides two female dovetail features 40 and 41 in which members with male dovetail features, such asmember 200, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, can be received. The twomember 400 female dovetail features 40 and 41 illustrated in FIG. 4 are situated inmember 400 at equal angles from themember 400 axis ofsymmetry 42. If the equal orientation angles of the female dovetail members are, for example, 45 degrees,member 400, assembled with amember 200, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, received in both of itsfemale dovetail members perpendicular panels 1000.Member 400 could be constructed of two mirror-image blocks that are attached with commonly understood fasteners or adhesive so that they share the common surface in thesymmetry plane 42. - In another embodiment of the FIG. 4
member 400, the female dovetail features 40 and 41 can be situated at dissimilar angles from the axis ofsymmetry 42. Such an embodiment would provide a joining device between twopanels 1000 that describe an angle that could range from a small acute angle to 180 degrees. - FIG. 5 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention.
Member 500 provides two opposed female dovetail features 50 and 51 in which members with male dovetail features, such asmember 200, or similar members having a male dovetail feature, can be received. The two opposedmember 500 female dovetail features 50 and 51 illustrated in FIG. 5 are mirror images. When amember 200, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, is received in both of themember 500 female dovetail features 50 and 51,member 500 becomes a device for joining twocoplanar panels 1000. - In another embodiment of
member 500, the female dovetail features 50 and 51 on opposite sides ofmember 500 can be parallel but offset so as to be asymmetrical. When amember 200, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, is received in both of thealternate embodiment member 500 female dovetail features,member 500 becomes a device for joining two parallel butnoncoplanar panels 1000. - In another embodiment of
member 500, either side ofmember 500 can have more than one female dovetail feature. When amember 200, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, is received in, for example, one female dovetail feature on one side ofmember 500 and two female dovetail features on the opposite side ofmember 500,member 500 becomes a device for joining onepanel 1000 to twopanels 1000 that are parallel but not necessarily coplanar. - In another embodiment of
member 500, one side ofmember 500 can be constructed without a dovetail feature. The resultant flat surface on one side of thealternate embodiment member 500 can function as a cap to provide a decorative finish or functional appendage to the edge of a partition or wall that emanates from the side ofmember 500, or a similar member, having a dovetail feature. Such decorative or functional features can include, for example, millwork, a capital, light fixture, sprinkler head, mister, or electrical outlet. - FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of one of the members of the present invention.
Member 600 is one embodiment of a member that provides, in conjunction with twomembers 200, or similar members with male dovetail features, a joining device for twoperpendicular panels 1000.Member 600 also provides aprominent surface 18 that can be manufactured in special-order decorative or functional profiles, finishes, and colors.Member 600 can thus function as a decorative partition or wall corner.Member 600 could be constructed of two mirror-image blocks that are attached with commonly understood fasteners or adhesive so that they share the common surface in thesymmetry plane 62. - In another embodiment of
member 600, one side ofmember 600 can have more than one female dovetail feature. When amember 200, or a similar member with a male dovetail feature, is received in, for example, one female dovetail feature on one side ofmember 600 and two female dovetail features on an adjacent side ofmember 600,member 600 becomes a device for joining onepanel 1000 perpendicularly to two parallel butnoncoplanar panels 1000. - FIG. 7 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention.
Member 700 is comprised of two or more members, such asmembers members member 700 can function as a vertical center post providing for two, three, or four partitions or walls, or as a horizontal center post providing for both vertical and horizontal partitioning. Amember 700, in conjunction withseveral members 200, or similar members having male dovetail features, can thus provide a joining device for any number of parallel andperpendicular panels 1000. The eightorthogonal surfaces 21 providemember 700 with exposed surfaces that can be stained, painted, or otherwise made decorative or functional. - FIG. 8 shows one embodiment of one of the members of the present invention.
Member 800 is one embodiment of an assembly of several of the present invention's members. A member 100 and amember 400 combine with twomembers 200 to receive and hold apanel 1000. In the dovetail slot ofmember 400 illustrated as being empty in FIG. 8, anothermember 200 could be received. In thatadditional member 200 could be received anotherpanel 1000 for a continuation of the panel assembly in a direction 45 degrees from the illustratedpanel 1000. In the FIG. 8 embodiment ofmember 800,members 5 are located on opposite sides ofpanel 1000. Another embodiment ofmember 800 could be assembled withmembers 2 oriented so thatmembers 5 are located on the same side of the illustratedmember 1000. - The members of the present invention can be manufactured in sizes customized to job specifications. A typical partition might require members100 to have a height of one and three- quarters inches and the narrow opening at the top of the member 100 dovetail feature to have a width sufficient to accommodate a
panel 1000 with a width of one inch. - Individual members of the present invention can be any solid material suitable for construction such as metal, plastic, wood, foam, or composite, and can be manufactured in any manner suitable for industry such as machining, extrusion, molding, laser-cutting, or sintering.
Surfaces - While the present invention has been described in terms of a single preferred embodiment with a few variations, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that form and detail modifications may be made to that embodiment without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. For example, any member described as part of the preferred embodiment could have male, instead of female, dovetail features, or vice versa.
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1. A system for partitioning space comprising:
a plurality of first members having a first and a second end and a plurality of surfaces, said first members being interlocked with at least one mortise and tenon joint; and
an assembly of said first members into a second member capable of receiving at least one planar panel having a plurality of edges.
2. The system of claim 1 further comprising at least two said second members wherein said second members can receive different edges of one said panel.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein said mortise and tenon joint is a dovetail joint.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of said second members is non-planar.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of said panels is non-planar.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one said first member has at least one end terminated with at least one ornamentation.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one said first member has at least one end terminated with at least one functional accessory.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one said panel contains conduit.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one said first member contains conduit.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one said second member contains conduit.
11. A mortise comprised of two separate members configured to receive a tenon, said mortise capable of capturing said tenon when said members are pushed together.
12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein said mortise is a female dovetail slot and said tenon is a male dovetail.
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