US 4,357,119 A · Furniture fitting

Abstract

The invention relates to a fitting comprising a male component and a female component respectively to be attached to furniture wall parts to be joined together normal to one another. The former comprises a male member and a shank bearing circumferential ribs to hold the shank in a hole bored in one of the furniture parts, and the latter is in the form a part cylindrical body likewise ribbed to hold the body in a hole bored in the other furniture part. The body constitutes a socket formed to interrupt the lateral wall of the body so that the socket opens radially of the body; the hole formed in the respective furniture part being of complementary form to interrupt an end edge of the furniture part. The male member further comprises a recess in part delineated by a ledge and tapered end faces of flanges of the male member; and the female component further comprises a resilient tongue. With the components secured to their respective furniture parts, the male member is then axially entered into the socket but so that it connects with its shank radially of the socket via the radial opening of the socket and the interrupted end edge of respective furniture part. This leaves the recess accessible from the exterior of the fitting so that by insertion of a suitable tool e.g. a screwdriver blade, the tongue can be dislodged from the recess of the male member to permit disengagement of the two fitting parts.

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Dependent claims

A furniture fitting for releasably securing together respective parts of a piece of furniture required to be held at a predetermined angular position in relation to one another, the fitting being one of two components, namely, a female component comprising a socket and means adapted to be let into a furniture part so that no portion of the component projects substantially from any of the surfaces of the furniture part and so that the socket is accessible from a surface thereof, and a male component having a male member and means adapted to be let into the other of the furniture parts to secure the male component to that part with the male member projecting from a surface thereof;

the socket of the female component and the male member of the male component being such that the male member can be entered into the socket axially thereof but to connect with said means thereof laterally of the socket;
the female component being formed with a resilient member and the male member of the male component with a recess into which, when the male member is entered into the socket, said resilient member engages to lock the male member in place;
access to the recess being provided from said surface of the respective furniture member to provide access to the resilient member engaged therein from said surface of the respective furniture part so that a tool may be inserted to dislodge the resilient member from the recess and permit withdrawal of the male member from the socket.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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