Connectors for holding together modular articles
OwnerGeorge M. Clareinventor
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Abstract
A connector for holding together a plurality of pocket style molded containers or other modular articles and having a web bearing retainers providing channels that engage and receive edge portions of the containers or articles to hold them in a predetermined configuration established by the arrangement of the retainers on the web.
Claims12
A connector for holding together a plurality of modular articles each of the type having a pair of spaced apart upper and lower edge portions, said connector comprising an elongated flexible web member and a plurality of retainer members connected to said web member for support thereby, each of said retainer members including a pair of oppositely facing channels for each of the modular articles to be held together, each channel receiving and retaining a respective edge portion of said pair of upper and lower edge portions, said web member having sufficient flexibility to permit one of the channels of said pair of channels to deflect to snap over the associated edge portion of a modular article, and said retainer members being positioned to hold the plurality of modular articles together in a predetermined configuration.
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