Inventors:
Lewis Mark Epstein - San Mateo CA, US
Kyle J. Doerksen - Palo Alto CA, US
Matthew Robert Adams - Mountain View CA, US
Larry Cheng - Palo Alto CA, US
Brian Joseph Mason - Menlo Park CA, US
Thomas Overthun - San Francisco CA, US
Todd Allen Pelman - San Francisco CA, US
Vivek Mohan Rao - San Francisco CA, US
David John Rinaldis - Redwood City CA, US
Lukas Martin Scherrer - San Francisco CA, US
Mark D. Siminoff - Mountain View CA, US
Susanne Stage - San Francisco CA, US
Joerg Christoph Student - San Francisco CA, US
James Nolan Ludwig - Grand Rapids MI, US
Brett Robert Kincaid - Ada MI, US
Assignee:
Steelcase Inc. - Grand Rapids MI
International Classification:
A47B 37/00
US Classification:
108 5001, 108 5002, 3122233
Abstract:
A conferencing assembly for use with at least one computer, the assembly including a table top forming a table top opening, a leg support structure, a display screen supported adjacent the top surface, a switcher for controlling input to the display screen, a plurality of handsets, each hand set including a selector button usable to send a signal to the switcher thereby causing the switcher to link a computer associated with the selector button to the display, a plurality of handset cables, each handset cable having first and second ends linked to the switcher and an associated selector button, respectively, for passing signals from the selector buttons to the switcher, a take up assembly including a separate weight for each of the handset cables, the take up assembly disposed below the top member and aligned with the top opening, each handset cable linked to an associated weight, each weight applying a force tending to pull the second end of the associated handset cable into the opening.