Frame construction
AssigneeE-Z Rect-Metal Products Ltd.
InventorsWallace T. Husband, Howard A. Larlee
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Abstract
A framework is constructed using posts having side walls in which vertically aligned and spaced-apart slots are formed. The posts support frame members having end edges which abut the side wall. A pair of hooks on the end edge enter into a pair of slots and, when the frame members are moved relative to one another, the hooks engage the side wall and the end edge is clamped to that wall. The end edges have locking tabs which are bent into a slot to prevent disengagement of the frame members.
Claims8
Frame construction comprising a first frame member having a side wall provided with a slot, a second frame member having an end edge, a hook on the end edge enterable through the slot to engage the side wall, said second frame member having an integral and coplanar locking tab at the end edge, said locking tab being bendable away from and substantially coplanar with the second frame member into the slot to prevent disengagement of the hook from the side wall.
Frame construction comprising a tubular post having a side wall, said side wall having a pair of vertically aligned and spaced-apart slots, a horizontal frame member having an end edge engageable with the side wall, a pair of longitudinally projecting hooks on the end edge enterable into the pair of slots and being movable downwardly to engage lower edges of said slots, said horizontal frame member being shaped at the end edge to provide an integral locking tab and an adjoining opening, said locking tab being bendable into one of the pair of slots to engage an upper edge of said one slot and resist upward movement of the horizontal frame member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.