Table topology and arrangement

Abstract

A seating table and arrangement includes a table which is preferable six sided, with two parallel sides and two main angled sides, along with two oppositely located abbreviated width sides and which provides a number of advantages including increased seating capacity and classroom quality enhancement. In a room arrangement of the tables, the larger of the two parallel sides are directed toward the podium with the tables preferably arranged in a somewhat evenly dispersed orientation with tables along the middle of the room angled straight toward the podium while tables to the side being angled slightly toward the centerline of the room.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to an advantageously shaped table and a room table arrangement using this table and in which significant room space savings is achieved without sacrificing minimum travel passageway spacing and an advantageous curved lecture topology can be achieved.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Classrooms, meeting rooms lecture halls and their table furnishings are by nature public and subject to public standards. Whether in public or private institutions, classrooms are designed for use by the public or by employees subject to public laws. Nearly all classrooms in unrestricted facilities must meet minimum space and density requirements. Further, and especially for daily or continuous regular usage, minimum spacing requirements is necessary for reasonable and regular comfort in the learning environment. All furnishings are likely to experience periodic overcrowding as when two or three groups meet at a location to hear a 5 minute announce...

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Benefits of technology

[0012]The seating table and arrangement of the invention involves a table which is preferably six sided, having two parallel sides and two main angled sides, along with two oppositely located abbreviated width sides which provides a number of advantages, including reduced width arrangements as well as a softening of the harshness of the table end. A rounded edge is also possible. The table's two main angled sides have an angle with respect to the shorter of the two main parallel sides of from about one hundred twenty five degrees to about one hundred forty five degrees. The table will seat two persons at the shorter main parallel side and one person at each of the two main angled sides.

Problems solved by technology

All furnishings are likely to experience periodic overcrowding as when two or three groups meet at a location to hear a 5 minute announcement, where discomfort is outweighed by the need for information.

However, in long run perfunctory usage minimum requirements must be met.

When a given size room is available it may not always be furnishable in a manner that maximizes the comfortable seating capacity, even if the user has an unrestricted selection of furnishing and their orientation.

Even a less than optimum arrangement in terms of seating capacity does not address the qualitative degree to which a good learning environment has been created.

These tables are typically used side by side and do not allow for a student to be seated at the end.

Assuming the tables were pushed against one wall, adequate space would be available to accommodate only one more table; but the access aisle along the opposite wall would be only two and a half feet wide, not sufficiently wide for most building codes.

This result can scale to larger rooms in a direct proportion and without much savings from eliminating the three foot table-wall clearance.

Further, as the room gets larger users begin to have their mobility reduced.

In a lab or workshop setting where the instructor needs to wander from student to student, a scaling up of this basic format causes a lot of angular row and column walking to move around.

It would make a large room unmanageable as other than a passive seating audio visual or lecture room.

There exists the possibility that two people of one row could turn around and work with two people on a rearward row, but any setup where a common device or equipment was being used would defeat the practicability of this action.

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