Clamp for connecting modular furniture components

In combination with a support frame having a horizontal rail and a cabinet removably suspended from said rail, said cabinet including a top frame member with a depending rear flange and said rail including a front wall portion, a horizontal wall portion extending rearwardly from said front wall portion, and a flange projecting upwardly from said horizontal wall portion and spaced behind said front wall portion;

• a clamp comprising separable upper and lower jaw members and adjustable connecting means extending therebetween;
• said upper jaw member including a generally horizontally-extending arm having a bearing portion at one end and a depending clamping rib at the opposite end thereof;
• said lower jaw member including a generally horizontally-extending arm having a bearing portion at one end thereof, an upstanding clamping rib at the opposite end thereof, and an upwardly-projecting retention rib spaced between said clamping rib and said bearing portion of said lower jaw member;
• said lower jaw member having a lower opening extending vertically therethrough at a point between said bearing portion thereof and said retention rib;
• said upper jaw member having a threaded opening therethrough alignable with said lower opening of said lower jaw member;
• said connecting means comprising an adjustment screw having a head disposed beneath said lower jaw member and a threaded shank extending upwardly through said lower opening and threadedly received in said upper opening;
• whereby, when said clamping rib of said upper jaw member is hooked over said flange of said supporting rail and said clamping rib of said lower jaw member is hooked beneath said top frame member of said cabinet forwardly of the depending rear flange thereof, the tightening of said screw will cause said jaw members to move towards each other and thereby lift said cabinet into engagement with said rail;
• said retention rib and said screw shank being engagable with said depending rear flange of said cabinet to limit relative forward-rearward movement of said cabinet without restraining lateral movement thereof when said screw is only partially tightened.