US 11,744,363 B2
Furniture with air filter support
Stephen Rozeboom, Alpharetta, GA (US); and Brandon Rayburn, Alpharetta, GA (US)
Assigned to SPECIAL-T, LLC, Alpharetta, GA (US)
Filed by SPECIAL-T, LLC, Alpharetta, GA (US)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/141,936.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/084,180, filed on Sep. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/080,087, filed on Sep. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0145171 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. A47B 83/00 (2006.01); F24F 3/163 (2021.01); E04B 2/74 (2006.01)
CPC A47B 83/001 (2013.01) [F24F 3/163 (2021.01); E04B 2002/7483 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A furniture apparatus comprising:
an integrated a holder retrofitted and coupled to a work, desk or table surface of the furniture apparatus, wherein the integrated holder supports and secures an electronic and self-contained air filtration system, wherein the air filtration system includes a top end, a bottom end and a vertical housing extending vertically between the bottom end and the top end;
having an air intake positioned including one or more openings around an external surface of the vertical housing and configured to communicate with ambient air 360 degrees around the external surface of the vertical housing; and air intake and air filtration system, and
wherein the integrated holder elevates the air intake above the work, desk or table surface of the furniture apparatus, and wherein the air intake is positioned to suction air exhaled from one or more persons using the surface of the furniture apparatus free of an airflow barrier external to the air intake impeding suctioning of the air exhaled from the one or more persons into the air intake, and wherein the air filtration system further includes an air outlet positioned at the top end of the air filtration system above the air intake relative to the work, desk or table surface and the air filtration system is free of an external barrier impeding airflow between the air outlet and air intake;
multiple partitions that meet at a common seam beneath the holder, dividing the surface into multiple separated workspaces; and
a HEPA filter positioned inside the self-contained air filtration system between the air intake and air outlet to capture and destroy at least one of a virus and a bacteria in the air exhaled from the one or more persons using the surface of the furniture apparatus into the ambient air adjacent the air intake.