Back plate and bail assembly

A single back and bail assembly for furniture pulls and the like including a bail and a back member;

• said bail having a pair of legs, each leg including two opposing sides, a rear surface and a front face with a projection means extending from one of said sides near the ends of said legs for pivotally attaching the bail to said back member;
• said back member including a pair of spaced, opposing walls, each for receiving therebetween a leg of said bail, at least one of said wall surfaces including a recess for receiving said projection means;
• said wall surfaces being spaced a predetermined distance apart generally at the position of said recess;
• said leg, at the position of said projection means having a maximum width between said opposing sides less than said predetermined distance;
• at least a portion of said projection means projecting into said recess;
• the combined length of said projection means and said maximum width of said leg being greater than said predetermined distance;
• the width of said leg between said opposing sides decreasing in magnitude from front to rear providing an edge at which said decreasing width starts, said edge running along a portion of leg from the end thereof;
• said projection means being spaced rearwardly of said edge and having sufficient movability within said recess so that said edge of said leg can project beyond the front extremity of said wall surfaces;
• said leg being flexible and the magnitude of the decreasing width of said leg being sufficiently great whereby when said edge has cleared the front extremity of the adjacent wall surface, the leg can be flexed by virtue of the decreasing magnitude of the width of said leg until the combined length of said projection means and the width of said leg, at and to the rear of the front extremity of said wall surfaces, is less than said predetermined width thereby permitting removal of said leg from said backing member.

A bail and back plate assembly for furniture pulls comprising:

• a generally U-shaped bail with a pair of legs including pintle means extending from ends of each leg for pivotally securing said bail to a back plate;
• a back plate including means for pivotally capturing said pintle means of said bail, wherein the improvement comprises:
• said capturing means comprising a pair of spaced walls with recess means for receiving said pintle means, said walls spaced to admit said pintle means in said recess means only when said bail is deflected to slightly change the distance between said pintle means;
• and wherein one of said pintle means includes a beveled end to facilitate snap-in insertion of said bail to said back plate and resist removal once inserted.