Connector system for furniture and structures
AssigneeGacon S.A.
InventorsJean-Marc Barreau, Jean-Claude Petit
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A connector system including a socket with a retaining flange to hold the socket in an opening in one of the parts to be joined. A plug with a longitudinal slot is wedged in an opening of the other part to be joined. A head on the plug coacts with a bayonnet slot opening of the socket to secure the parts together. The wedge for securing the plug can be connected to the plug initially with a break-away connection so the entire plug is a single unit. A disk retained in the socket assists holding the socket in the other part to be joined.
Claims15
A connector system for joining two parts, for example furniture parts, comprising:
- a cylindrical socket having a side wall and a connecting end, and adapted to be inserted in one of the parts to be joined with its connecting end flush with the surface of the part, said connecting end having a bayonet slot opening,
- said side wall having a longitudinal slot and a radially projecting saw-tooth shaped locking flange at its free end,
- a spacer disk within said side wall of said socket and adjacent an inner surface of the connecting end of the socket, and means for retaining said spacer disk in said socket,
- a plug having a body adapted to be inserted and locked in the other of the parts to be joined and comprising, a head connected to the body by a stem, said head having a diameter to be received in a larger diameter opening of the bayonet slot and lock behind a smaller diameter opening of the slot, and said stem having a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the smaller diameter opening of the bayonet slot,
- said body having a diameter to be inserted in an opening of said other part to be joined, and
- means for securing the body in said other part,
- said parts being joined by inserting the head of the plug through the bayonet slot opening of the socket and moving it transversely to seat said stem in the smaller diameter opening of the slot.
A connector system for joining two parts, for example furniture parts, comprising:
- a cylindrical socket having a side wall and a connecting end, and adapted to be inserted in one of the parts to be joined with its connecting end flush with the surface of the part, said connecting end having a bayonet slot opening,
- said side wall having a longitudinal slot and a radially projecting saw-tooth shaped locking flange at its free end,
- a plug having a body adapted to be inserted and locked in the other of the parts to be joined and comprising, a head connected to the body by a stem, said head having a diameter to be received in a larger diameter opening of the bayonet slot and lock behind a smaller diameter opening of the slot, and said stem having a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the smaller diameter opening of the bayonet slot,
- said body having a diameter to be inserted in an opening of said other part to be joined,
- means for securing the body in said other part, and
- means for retaining said plug in said seated position in said socket, and comprising locking lugs on opposite sides of said bayonet slot, and a flange on said plug body adjacent the inner end of said stem, said lugs being spaced apart by a distance slightly less than the diameter of said flange to grip said flange and hold said plug in said seated position,
- said parts being joined by inserting the head of the plug through the bayonet slot opening of the socket and moving it transversely to seat said stem in the smaller diameter opening of the slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.