Panel system edge sealing means

Claim 1

In a room divider panel system comprised of two or more panels, each of said panels having a vertical edge, spring-biased means connected between said panel, said spring-biased means permitting two or more of said panels to be drawn against each other along said panels' vertical edges in any of a plurality of angular positions relative to each other, an improved means for sealing the vertical edges of adjoining panels so that said vertical edges are sealed along their length when two or more of said panels are joined in any of a plurality of angular positons, an identical one of said edge sealing means being mounted along each vertical adjoining edge of each of said adjoining panels, each of said adjoining edge sealing means being comprised of a first, outer, relatively yieldable substantially semi-circular elastometric sealing portion and a second, inner, relatively rigid portion, said first portion being substantially concentric in configuration with said second portion, said second portion being convexly arcuate in cross section, whereby said spring-biased means draws each of said first elastometric substantially semi-circular sealing portions of adjoining edge sealing means into contact with each other to produce an intimate sealing relationship along the vertical edges of adjoining panels when said panels are in a plurality of angular positions relative to each other.