Devices for fixing support, joint or hinge elements to panels of expanded polystyrene, or the like
AssigneeLucifero S.r.l.
InventorRenato Gozzano
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Abstract
The invention concerns device for removably fixing support, joint or hinge elements to panels or blocks of expanded polystyrene or of similar materials. The method is characterized by providing a pair of plates, each having a face from which protrudes one or more nails or spikes substantially perpendicular to the same face, and by inserting the said plates correspondingly into the faces of the panels or blocks forming an angle to each other so that the nails or spikes of the two plates intermesh. In particular, the plates, once inserted in the polystyrene, are locked together.
Claims12
A system for mounting a pair of plate members on a panel having an edge surface and face surface wherein the panel is made of a readily penetrable material such as expanded polystyrene, the system comprising:
- a first plate member having a first array of spikes projecting from a surface thereof;
- a second plate member having a second array of spikes projecting from a surface thereof;
- means for positively securing the first plate member to the second plate member in a position with said surfaces of the first and second plate members substantially normal with respect to one another and with said first and second array of spikes crossing one another;
- the system being mounted on the panel by mounting the first plate member on one of the surfaces of the panel by inserting the first array of spikes into the material thereof, and thereafter mounting the second plate member adjacent the other surface of the panel by inserting the second array of spikes into the material of the panel in a direction substantially perpendicular to that of the spikes of the first array of spikes and in such a manner that the first and second arrays of spikes cross one another and are proximate one another in the material when the first plate member is secured to the second plate member with the securing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.