Tub-shower backwall and sidewall panel interlock
AssigneeOwens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
InventorsScott A. Calvert, Leslie A. Bowman, James W. Rinehart, Merritt W. Seymour
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Abstract
Backwall and sidewall panels for assembly with a bathtub in the forming of a shower enclosure are molded with integral interlockable portions respectively thereon whereby the sidewall panel can be assembled with the backwall panel to provide firm engagement therebetween by the interengaging of the interlockable portions with each other.
Claims6
A molded backwall panel and a molded sidewall panel for assembly with a bathtub in the forming of a shower enclosure, the panels having interlockable portions integrally molded respectively thereon whereby the sidewall panel can be assembled with the backwall panel to enclose a space and provide firm engagement between the panels by the interengaging of said interlockable portions with each other, the interlockable portions including pocket portions disposed on one of the panels and each being open on a vertical inner side adjacent the enclosed space of a completed enclosure and also at a top of said pocket portion, and outwardly extending dowel portions on the other of the panels, the dowel portions being engageable respectively in the pocket portions upon relative vertical movement between the panels.
A molded backwall panel and a molded sidewall panel for assembly with a bathtub in the forming of a shower enclosure, the panels having a pair of dowel-and-pocket connections therebetween for jamming a first pair of mating surfaces into firm engagement with each other and also a tongue-and-groove connection therebetween with means on a tongue portion of the tongue-and-groove connection for jamming a second pair of mating surfaces into firm engagement with each other, the second pair of mating surfaces extending at right angles to the first pair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.