NL1024274C1 - Office device assembly, workspace and method for using such a workspace. - Google Patents

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Title: Office device assembly, workspace and method of use for such a workspace

The invention relates to a desk arrangement assembly for a workspace with different workplaces, each of which is equipped with an associated workplace arrangement for storing at least articles or aids within the reach of one user at the workplace. The invention also relates to a working space and to a method for using such a working space.

The design of offices with multiple workplaces in a workspace often comprises a workplace design for each workplace. In such offices, usually every user has a fixed workplace.

10 Because many office workers work part-time and / or a significant part of the working time works outside the office »on average, a considerable part of the workplaces remain unused. These so-called part-time workers, for example, only work three days a week, while the office where they work, for example, is open five days a week. In such cases, working part-time therefore has an adverse effect on the efficiency of the use of the office surface.

As a solution to this problem, it is known to ensure that individual users do not have fixed or virtually fixed workplaces, but must use different workplaces at different times, so that at least a number of the workplaces are each used by different users at different times. used. For example, there are offices where each of a certain group of office users has their own mobile storage furniture for 25 office supplies. A user to whom this applies can take the storage furniture that belongs to him at such offices to a workplace that is still freely available within the office.

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The disadvantage of this known solution to the problem is that the I

is often found unpleasant to spend one working day at one workplace I

I work and the other working day at a different workplace. Another disadvantage is I

that all individual articles and aids are always packed and I

I 5 have to be moved, and individualization of the workplace, both in I

functional and decorative sense, is strongly impeded. It becomes in the I

generally found more pleasant to be at the same workplace every working day I

works, where individual articles and tools, such as documents, I

computer equipment and personal items such as family photos and the like, I

10 have a storage location, for example partly in a cupboard and partly attached I

against a wall surface. I

A further disadvantage of being at different workplaces I

I work for users is that they are used by others, in particular I

I visitors who do not work in the relevant workspace are more difficult to I

I find 15. I

The object of the invention is to provide a solution which is an I

I enable more efficient use of office space where users I

have fixed workplaces.

This object is achieved according to the invention by providing a desk device assembly according to claim 1. The invention can also be embodied in a workspace according to claim 8, in which a desk device assembly according to the invention is included, as well as in a method according to claim 9, in which a desk device assembly I according to the invention is used.

Because the number of worktop units that are each intended for use by a user is smaller than the number of workplaces for which workstation devices are present, the space occupied by the worktops is limited, while, depending on the worktop.

presence of users, each time the workstation unit or units move to the associated workplace or workplaces, yet every user can always work at a fixed workplace and, apart from the worktop unit, using the same workplace device. The coupling structure herein ensures that the worktop units can only be connected in fixed positions, each belonging to a workplace, and thus for maintaining an orderly arrangement of the workspace. The worktop units may each consist of a worktop intended for use by an individual user, but may also form part of a larger worktop with, for example, worktop units (which merge continuously or otherwise) for two or more users and which may or may not be detachable from the link structure.

Specific embodiments of the invention are laid down in the dependent claims.

In the following, the invention is further elucidated with reference to the figures in the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 schematically shows a perspective view of a desk arrangement assembly according to the invention.

Figure 2 shows schematically in plan view a similar desk arrangement assembly as shown in Figure 1.

Figures 1 and 2 show an example of a work space 4 according to the invention with a desk arrangement assembly 1 according to the invention therein. The desk arrangement assembly 1 according to this example comprises three mutually identical single person rectangular worktops 2 which each define a worktop unit for use by one user 25 at a time. Each worktop 2 is provided with a support leg 8 at each of three corners. The support legs 8 can be provided with wheels which can be swiveled or not at their lower ends. Furthermore, the desk arrangement assembly 1 is provided with an annular guide which is arranged horizontally in the work space 4. There is a 1024274 of each worktop 2

I 4 I

I angle coupled to the guide part 3. According to this example, the I

I does not have a supporting leg 8 for that corner. I

This coupling of the countertops 2 to the guide 3 can be done on many I

I ways have been realized, for example with a wheel set at the bottom I

Of the work surface 2, which can roll over the guide 3. I

I A column 9 of the desk-arrangement assembly is fixed with the I

I floor connected and carries the guide 3 that surrounds the column 9 and through I

I is attached to the column 9 by means of supports. I

According to this example, the height of the column 9 is greater than the I

10 height of the countertops 2, but can also be smaller. Via the column 9 the I

I corners of the counter tops 2 where there is no leg 8 to the floor I

supported. Because the column 9 protrudes above the work tops 2, this is I

I particularly suitable for carrying I attached to the column 9

Partition walls 5, with which workplaces 4a, I located at fixed locations

4b, 4c, 4d are at least partially separated from each other. A workplace is I

the fixed, normal location (for example, behind a keyboard and I

screen) where an individual user is located during the I

Performing work on a desk or other worksheet, where I

besides sitting, also standing or sitting on the desk and the like I

I 20 can be considered as being present at the workplace. I

In addition to the partitioning plates 5 located above the countertops 2 I

I also supports the column partitions 6 located under the worktops, for further I

I optical and acoustic mutual shielding of the workplaces. From the I

In FIG. 1, four lower partitions 6 only show two partitions 6. I

The lower partitions 6 each extend from close above I

The floor of the work space 4 up to a height close to the work surfaces 2 I

I and the guide 3 are attached to the column 9 and I along a vertical edge

I protrude radially from the cylindrical column 9. I

I The upper bulkheads each extend from close above the I

I 30 worktops 2 upwards, are attached to the column I along a vertical edge

And also project radially (according to this example, each parallel to a partition 6 below) from the cylindrical column 9.

The upper partitions 5 are identical in shape according to this example. This also applies to the lower partitions 6. The four upper partitions 5 as well as the four lower partitions 6 protrude from the column 9 at angles of 90 ° relative to each other. Thus, the upper partitions 5 and the lower partitions 6 separate within the workspace 4 partially separated four four-person workplaces 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d.

It is noted that according to the invention various other combinations of the number of work tops 2 and the number of work places are possible. For example, it is possible for four workplaces, two instead of three worktops 2 to be used. But combinations are also possible such as, for example, 2: 1, 3: 2, 5: 4, 5: 3, 6: 5, 6: 4, etc., where the first number refers to the number of workplaces and the second number to the number of worktops 2 Furthermore, instead of rectangular shaped countertops 2, various other forms of countertops 2 can also be used.

Each of the workplaces 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d, which is provided with a workplace device, which according to this example each time consists of the sides 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d of two of the upper partitions 5 facing the respective workplace, which serve as a support for a computer screen 10 and network connections (not shown) and to which personal documents and decorations can be attached, the sides 16a, 16b, 16d of two of the lower partitions 6 and facing the respective workplace a storage facility 7 in the form of a storage unit. This storage furniture can, for example, be a chest of drawers. In this example, this storage furniture is placed on the floor of the working space 4 against a lower partition 6. The storage furniture 7 can optionally also be attached to the lower partition 6. The storage furniture 7 does not reach 1024274

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higher than the top of the lower partition 6. Any required I

cables can be concealed from view, for example, because they are connected via I

the interior of the upper partitions 5 or cable ducts in and via the I

interior of the column 9 to, for example, a ceiling or floor of the I

5 workspace 4 expired. I

Because the three work tops 2 are conductively connected to the I

annular guide 3 surrounding the column 9, and the work tops 2 and I

the guide 3 does not extend higher than the lower edges of the upper I

partitions 5 and not lower than the upper edges of the lower I

10 partitions 6, the countertops 2 are rotatable between the partitions 5,6 around I

the column 9. Each of the three worktops 2 can therefore be used for each of the I

workplaces 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d to an adjacent workplace 4a, 4b, 4c or I

4d. The worktops 2 are thus interchangeable between the I

different workplaces 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d. To clarify the I

15 trajectory that a worksheet 2 during transfer from one workplace to the I

Fig. 1 shows a front worktop 2 shown in the figure that I

being in a position on the route between a position belonging to the workplace I

4b and a position associated with the workplace 4c. An I

part of the worktop 2 is located between an underlying partition 6 and an I

20 top shot 5. I

FIG. 2 shows in top view the situation where in positions I

belonging to three workplaces 4a, 4b and 4c one worktop 2 present I

is. In the position associated with the workplace 4d no worksheet 2 is present and I

is indicated by broken lines a position 11 where one of the three I

Worktops 2, conductively connected to the guide part 3, towards I

can be moved. I

It is now described how the office furnishing assembly 1 I

I can be used by, for example, four users A, B, C I

I and D from an office. In this example, it is assumed that of these four I

I 30 users are present at most three at the same time. Adopted I

I 1024274 7 furthermore states that each of the four users always uses the same workplace. User A works exclusively at workplace 4a, user B works exclusively at workplace 4b, user C works exclusively at workplace 4c and user D works exclusively at workplace 4d.

On a working day or part of a day on which only the users A, B and C are present of the four said users, ie the arrangement of the three worksheets 2 of the desk arrangement assembly 1 as shown in Fig. 2. Each of the present users A , B and C then have their own worksheet 2 in a position corresponding to the workplace assigned to them. If during a different working day or part of the day of the four mentioned users only the users A, B and D are present, the worktop 2 which is in the position associated with the workplace 4c can be moved to the position 11 associated with the workplace 4d, be rotated so that it can be used by a user present at the workplace 4d. Thus, every present user can always have a work surface 2 that he or she can use at their own workplace.

In this example, it may sometimes be necessary to move two of the three worktops 2 from a certain workplace to an adjacent workplace. This is, for example, the case when only the users A, C and D are present among the four aforementioned users, while the three worksheets 2 are still arranged as shown in Fig. 2. In this case, for example, the worksheet 2 can first is pivoted in the position associated with the workplace 4c to the workplace 4d, so that in the position associated with the workplace 4c there is no longer any worktop 2 present, whereafter the worktop 2 which is in the position associated with the workplace 4b is located, can be pivoted to the position associated with workplace 4c.

Also, as an alternative to these two movements of countertops 2 according to the clock hand, first the countertop 2 in the position associated with the workplace 4a can be moved to the workplace 4d, followed by a displacement of the worksheet 2 that is located

at the workplace 4b to the workplace 4a. I

Each of the users A, B, C and D can thus always use

I make the same one-person workplace in the workspace 4. Moreover, I

Individual requirements can be left in an I

I storage location in or near this workplace, according to this example in an I

I storage space 7 or one of the upper partitions 5. Further, I

I used the workspace 4 efficiently, because the number of I

I work tops 2 is smaller than the number of work places 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d. I

I 10 Countertops take up a relatively large amount of space, so that an I

I saving on the number of countertops results in a considerable saving of space. I

I In addition, there are standards for minimum floor space per workplace

I based on the number of worksheets arranged in the workspace. By the I

I can limit the number of worktops with a smaller floor area. I

I 15 these standards are met. I

Because the countertops 2 relative to the workplace I

I devices are movable between fixed, by coupling structure 3 I

I determined positions, each associated with a workplace 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, is an I

I accurate positioning of the countertops 2 very easy to perform and I

I 20 maintains an orderly arrangement of the workspace after I

I moving one or more worksheets guaranteed. The I

I worktops 2 are easily detachable, so that, for example, I

I can be moved to workplaces at a different column. I

I Because the worktops are also connected to a guide I

I 25 3, which limits the mobility to a mobility between I

In workplaces, moving is further facilitated. By releasing I

I to make the guidance more difficult or impossible, I

It is understood that countertops are removed from the workspace 4. . I

Many others are within the scope of the present invention

In addition to the examples described above, embodiments are conceivable. So I

For example, the work tops 2 can be connected to the guide 3 with various parts and in various ways.

Displacement of the worktops 2 relative to the workplace devices can also be realized by arranging the worktops at fixed locations and moving the workplace devices, for example by being pivotable about the column 9 with the separating partitions 5 and / or 6 attached thereto. center line. Although this does not offer the advantage that all individual users of an office can always work at the same place in the workspace 4, it does offer the advantage that the location changes little and that each user always has his or her "own" workplace device has available.

Both the work tops 2 and the column 9 can also be rotatable independently of each other in the work space 4. Furthermore, it is possible to design the desk device assembly with a guide part that is not ring-shaped, but for instance substantially linear. In the latter case, for example, a straight guide rail can be attached to a wall, for example designed with side partitions, so that the work tops 2 can be guided linearly along the wall. These and similar modifications fall within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

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Claims (9)

An office device assembly comprising: II at least two workplace devices, each associated with one II separate workplace (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) for the within the range of one II user at the workplace associated with that workplace arrangement (4a, 4b, 4c, II 5 4d), storing at least articles or aids, II at least one worktop unit (2) for one user, II positioned for use by a user at at least one of the II workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c , 4d), wherein the number of the at least one II work blade unit (2) is smaller than the number of the workplace devices, II 10 and II at least one coupling structure (3) for determining at least II two, each at a workplace (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) of the positions of the at least one II work blade unit (2) coupled to the at least one coupling structure (3), for use by a user at the associated II workplace (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d). I 2. Office device assembly according to claim 1, wherein the at least one coupling structure (3) is designed as a guide (3) for II guiding movement of the at least one work blade unit (2) relative to the workplace devices between at least one of the positions II for use by a user at one of the workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) II and at least one other of the positions for use by a user at II one other of the workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d). I 25 An office device assembly according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the workplace devices comprise at least a partition (5.6) that at least partially separate the workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) from each other. 4. Office device assembly according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the workplace devices each comprise associated furniture (7) with storage space. 5. Desk arrangement assembly according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising a column (9), wherein the guide (3) is adapted to guide pivoting of the at least one worktop unit (2) around the column (9) and wherein the workplace devices are circumferentially rotated about the column (9) with respect to each other. 6. Office device assembly according to claim 5, wherein the guide comprises a guide ring (3) around the column (9). A desk device assembly according to at least claim 3 and claim 5 or 6, wherein the column (9) carries the at least one partition (5, 6). 20 A workspace comprising at least two workstations (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) and a desk arrangement assembly (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the number of workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) associated with said desk arrangement assembly (1) is greater than the number of the at least one work blade unit (2). 9. Use of a workspace (4) comprising: at least workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d), each with an associated workplace device for, within the reach of one user at that workplace (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) , storing at least items or tools, 1024274 I 12 II at least one worktop unit (2) for one user, II positioned for use by a user at at least one of the II workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d), wherein the number of the, at least one II work blade unit (2) is smaller than the number of the work places (4a, 4b, II 5 4c, 4d), and II at least one coupling structure (3) for determining at least II two , each position associated with a workplace (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) of the at least one work platform unit (2) coupled to the at least one coupling structure (3), for use by a user at the corresponding workstation II ( 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d), II, wherein each time a maximum of a number of the at least one II workplace (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) equal to the number of the at least one II work blade unit (2) being used simultaneously, and II where prior to using another of the II workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) the at least one work blade unit (2) is moved II from a position for use by a user at one of the II workstations (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) to a position for use by a II user at another of the workplaces (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d). 024274