Socket for caster mounting
AssigneeHerder N.V.
InventorsCarl J. Demrick, Frederick C. Greene
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Abstract
This invention relates to a socket for mounting casters and which preferably is of integral construction, made from a flat blank and formed to provide an upstanding tubular socket of opposed semi-circular sections, tapered adjacent their upper portion and partially overlapping at the top end of the tube, with spurs projecting outwardly thereof intermediate the height of the tube and having a bottom flange including upstanding teeth having wedge shaped top edges.
Claims6
A caster mounting socket comprised of a base plate and an upstanding socket, a plurality of upstanding teeth arranged on a radius around said base plate and disposed concentrically about the perimeter thereof, said teeth each having a generally vertical outer surface and an inner surface extending vertically for at least part of the height of the teeth, and a sloping wedge shaped face on said inner surface immediately above said vertical part of the inner surface adjacent the upper edge of each of said teeth, said wedge shaped face being disposed at an upwardly and outwardly extending angle from said inner vertical surface of the respective teeth to provide teeth disposed concentrically around said perimeter each of which tapers upwardly and outwardly above said vertical inner surface as defined by said wedge shaped face.
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