Furniture bracket and method

A bracket for securing vertically related, wood framed furniture pieces together comprising a generally rectangular, unitary metal body having length, width, and thickness dimensions with said length and width dimensions defining outer and inner faces, a plurality of aligned, longitudinally spaced openings extending through said thickness for receiving wood screws, said body on said inner face being equipped with a continuous perimetric flange extending generally perpendicularly away from said inner face, said inner face also being equipped with a generally frusto conical projection about each of said openings, each projection extending away from said inner face a distance from about 0.002 to about 0.025 inch further than said flange whereby said projections are adapted to bightingly engage said wood frames prior to engagement of said flange with said frames, said projections providing generally frusto conical recesses in said top surface to permit countersinking said wood screws.