Counter structures for machines-tools or the like used for direct while-youwait services

Claim 1

A SERVICE COUNTER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF BASE PLATES, A PLURALITY OF POSTS SUPPORTED ON SAID BASE PLATES, WORK MACHINES MOUNTED ATOP SAID POSTS, A COUNTER FRONT COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF UPWARDLY EXTENDING PARTITION ELEMENTS, SAID PARTITION ELEMENTS BEING SECURED TO THE POSTS, A PLURALITY OF COUNTER SHELF ELEMENTS, EACH OF SAID COUNTER SHELF ELEMENTS BEING PERPENDICULARLY DISPOSED WITH RESPECT TO THE PARTITION ELEMENTS, A PROTECTIVE PANEL ATOP EACH OF SAID SHELVES, SAID PROTECTIVE PANELS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE PARTITION ELEMENTS AND OFFSET THEREFROM IN A DIRECTION AWAY FROM THE POST, A PLURALITY OF SEATING ARRANGEMENTS PLACED ADJACENT THE COUNTER FRONT AND SEPARATED THEREBY FROM THE POSTS, EACH OF SAID SEATING ARRANGEMENTS COMPRISING A SEAT POST UPON WHICH THE SEAT IS MOUNTED, A PLURALITY OF STRUTS EXTENDING RADIALLY FROM THE SEAT POST, A RING CONNECTED TO THE STRUTS, A LEG EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE RING AND EACH OF SAID STRUTS AND CONNECTING STRUTS SECURING EACH OF TWO LEGS OF EACH OF THE SEATING ARRANGEMENTS TO SUCCESSIVE BASE PLATES.