Panel system
AssigneeNimlok Company
InventorsJohn L. Gename, David P. Evensen
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Abstract
A panel system is provided wherein a pair of adjacent display panels are removably interconnected. The system includes a tensioning member disposed within a peripheral track formed in each of the adjacent display panels. The tensioning member cooperates with an elongate link, which slidably engages the tracks of the adjacent panels and retains the link and tracks in a snug interfitting relation.
Claims6
A prefabricated panel system comprising a pair of panels arranged in adjacent relation with corresponding peripheral portions thereof disposed in close proximity to one another, each peripheral portion including a complemental first lock component;
- a complemental second lock component disposed intermediate said panel peripheral portions and in sliding interlocking relation with each of said complemental first lock components;
- and tensioning means mounted on one of the complemental lock components and, when said second lock component slidably interlocks with said first lock components, said tensioning means resiliently engages said first and second lock components and retains same in a snug interlocking relation, said tensioning means further permitting sliding disengagement between said first and second lock components such that said panels may be readily engaged and disengaged by manual adjustment.
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