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US 3,998,509 AGranted
Case and corner fastener therefor
OwnerJon W. Hauserinventor
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Abstract
Eight identical fasteners receive the corner portions of six rectangular sheets to maintain the sheets and fasteners in interlocked assembled relationship.
Claims9
A corner clip for interconnecting the adjoining corner portions of a plurality of orthogonally disposed panels forming a six sided enclosure, said clip comprising a one piece member having
- a horizontally disposed ledge with horizontal top and bottom planar surfaces and one pair of mutually orthogonal side edges,
- a pair of upright side walls joined together at one vertical edge and disposed in mutual perpendicular relationship,
- the inner surface of each of said side walls being planar and vertical,
- said side walls having top and bottom terminal edges located exteriorly of the respective planes of said inner surfaces of said side walls,
- said side walls respectively joining said side edges of said ledge at locations intermediate said top and bottom edges of said side walls, and
- first and second vertical flanges extending from one surface only of said ledge in spaced parallel relationship with respective ones of said side walls,
- whereby two of said three panels may be respectively disposed between said flanges and said walls and the corner portion of the other of said three panels may lie against the other side of said ledge with the edges thereof abutting said side panels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.