US 2014/0301773 A1Published application

Coupling for Furniture Components

AssigneeMetalmeccanica Alba Srl

InventorsMario Di Filippo, Paolo Zanotto

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Abstract

A coupling for furniture components includes two cheeks, each including a plurality of seats which, when matched, define housings for tubular elements such as furniture legs to be secured between the two cheeks. Each seat opens at the edge of the respective cheek and has a cross-section defining, with a facing seat, a housing with a cross-section that is slightly less than that of the tubular element to be secured. In one embodiment, a flat longitudinal wall in the seat blocks the rotation of the tubular element within the housing. Each seat in at least one cheek is also provided with a projecting element cooperating with a complementary aperture defined in the tubular element, and in one embodiment has an arched portion extending from the seat towards the facing cheek to define a closed cross-section that engages the tubular element.

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Dependent claims

A coupling for furniture components comprising:

a first and a second cheeks configured to be fitted and be connected together by clamping members, wherein:
each of the first and second cheeks comprises a plurality of seats, each seat of the first cheek defining, with a seat of the second cheek, a housing configured to secure a tubular element therein,
each seat opens at an edge of the first or the second cheek, has a cross-section defining, with a corresponding seat of a facing cheek, a housing of cross-section slightly less than a cross-section of the tubular element to be secured, and is provided with a flat longitudinal wall configured to block a rotation of the tubular element within the housing,
each seat defined in at least one of the first or second cheeks is provided with a projecting element cooperating with a complementary aperture provided in the tubular element to be disposed in the seat, and
each seat defined in at least one of the first or the second cheek has an arched portion which extends from the seat towards the facing cheek to obstruct a cross-section to be engaged by the tubular element.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.