Furniture bracket
OwnerHsueh-Ping Chen, Yueh-Hung Cheninventors
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Abstract
A type of furniture bracket, having two components, which allows easy assembly and disassembly of furniture, such as a vanity, without the need for tools. The components being attached to a planar and end side of furniture panels, respectively; one component having a recess with a flared lower portion and the other component having a flared raised portion such that the flared raised portion is inserted into the recess and slid down into the flared portion of the recess, thus wedging the components together and forming a tight contact between the two panels.
Claims5
A furniture bracket comprising a single piece concave component and a single piece raised component,
- the concave component comprising a recess groove, a front portion, a back portion, and a first pair of holes situated at each end of the front portion,
- the recess groove being disposed in the front portion between the first pair of holes and having a uniform depth, a wider upper opening, and a narrower lower opening,
- the wider upper opening having a uniform width,
- the narrower lower opening flaring into the recess groove from the front portion to the back portion such that the narrower lower opening has a narrower width at the front portion than the width of the wider upper opening and the same width at the back portion as the wider upper opening,
- the raised component comprising a tongue portion, two sides, a face portion and a second pair of holes situated at each end of the face portion ,
- the tongue portion extending from the face portion and situated equidistant from the two sides, having an inward section and an outward section, and having a substantially flared shape outward from the face portion such that the inward section is narrower than the outward section,
- whereby the concave component is fixedly attached at the first pair of holes to a planar side of a panel by creating a mortise of sufficient depth into the planar side of the panel and inserting the concave component such that the front portion is flush with the planar side of the panel, and the raised component is likewise fixedly attached at the second pair of holes to an end side of a panel by creating a mortise of sufficient depth into the end side of the panel and inserting the raised component such that the face portion is flush with the end side of the panel and in attaching the two panels together, the tongue portion is inserted into the recess groove at the wider upper opening and slid down the recess groove into the narrower lower opening, the tongue portion thereby becoming tightly wedged into the narrower lower opening thus drawing the planer and end sides of the panels flush together.
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