Set of joining hardware
AssigneeKarl Lautenschlager KG, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
InventorKarl Lautenschlager, Jr.
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Abstract
A joining hardware set for the releasable joining of the back wall of a cabinet to the carcass walls thereof. The hardware set has a back wall-related component in the form of an elongated case open at the bottom, which can be affixed to the back wall, and a carcass-related component which is covered by the back wall-related component when the latter is properly installed and which can be fastened to the carcass wall, the carcass-related component having a sloping engagement surface. A tightening means in the form of a circularly or spirally defined disk is journaled at a point offset from the axis of rotation, and its circumferential surface is a tightening surface which slopes at an angle complementary to the engagement surface of the top section.
Claims25
A set of hardware for rigidly, releasably joining one wall of a cabinet to another wall of the cabinet arranged substantially at right angles to the one wall in a plane;
- said set having:
- (a) a first component having means for fastening said first component to the one wall;
- (b) a second component for fastening to the other wall;
- and
- (c) tightening means for bringing said two components into interlocking engagement with one another and for clamping the same together to thereby pull the one wall against the other wall;
- said second component having a surface for placement against the other wall and having a first engaging surface projecting from said placement surface;
- said first component being an elongated housing open toward and at least partly over-reaching said second component, upon interlocking engagement of said components;
- said tightening means:
- (a) being rotatable about a first axis at right angles to said placement surface and substantially parallel to said plane;
- and
- (b) having a first disk with a second axis of rotation arranged at a given eccentricity with respect to said first axis and with a curved circumferential surface forming a second engaging surface for engagement with said first engaging surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.