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An office accessory system for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and in both conventional and open-plan environments. Accessories are provided, each being self-supporting on a horizontal surface, one of them being self-supporting on a horizontal surface in either a horizontal or a vertica

An office accessory system for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and in both conventional and open-plan environments. Accessories are provided, each being self-supporting on a horizontal surface, one of them being self-supporting on a horizontal surface in either a horizontal or a vertical orientation. The accessories have recesses for receiving support hooks engageable with the arm of a cantilever support. The cantilever support has an attaching bracket which is selectively engageable with the side channels found on a wide variety of open plan wall panels for mounting the accessories thereon in a vertical orientation.

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An accessory system supportable from a vertical surface provided with bracket receiving means, said system comprising an office accessory designed for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and in first and second positions of orientation, said accessory being self-supporting in said first pos

An accessory system supportable from a vertical surface provided with bracket receiving means, said system comprising an office accessory designed for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and in first and second positions of orientation, said accessory being self-supporting in said first position on horizontal surfaces and including means defining a pair of spaced recesses opening to one side of said accessory, and means for selectively mounting said accessory in said second position on a vertical surface, said mounting means including a cantilever support having an attaching bracket adapted to interfit with the bracket receiving means in the vertical surface and be thereby supported from the vertical surface, an arm having a free end extending for a substantial distance laterally from said attaching bracket, and means for releasably securing said accessory to said arm so that when said attaching bracket is supported from the vertical surface with said arm extending from said attaching bracket in a cantilever fashion and said accessory is releasably secured to said arm, said accessory is supported from the vertical surface, said means for releasably securing including means cooperable between the defined recesses of said accessory and said arm to support said accessory from the vertical surface as aforesaid, said means cooperable between said recesses and said arm including a pair of support hooks each having a portion which is releasably securable within a corresponding recess so that the hooks project from said accessory in laterally spaced relation, said arm having an upper edge with laterally spaced detents therein, said hooks engageable with said detents for suspending said accessory in front of said arm.