Corner clip for frame members of screen doors and the like
AssigneeCommonwealth of Puerto Rico
InventorJesus R. Rosa
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Abstract
A U-shaped corner clip for use with mitered corners of first and second hollow frame members. One leg of the clip has a hook to engage an opening in the outer edge of a first frame member. The other leg is insertable through an opening in the second frame member but has a length such that it passes from the interior of the second frame member into the interior of the first frame member and there resiliently bears on the inner face of the inner edge of the other frame member. Thus, any force tending to rotate the frame members apart in a direction to increase the angle therebetween is resisted by the action of the second leg member on the first frame member. The clip also resists any force tending to move the frame members linerally away from each other in any direction.
Claims7
A corner clip for releasably hooking together mitered corners of first and second frame members, each having a hollow interior which is rectangular in cross section and including a pair of side panels having inner faces spaced laterally apart a predetermined distance and joined together at their inner and outer edges by a pair of inner and outer edge panels having inner faces spaced vertically apart a predetermined distance, said clip comprising a U-shaped member of resilient flat material having a transverse width less than the transverse spacing between the inner faces of said side panels, said clip having first and second leg parts each having a free outer end and an inner end, said inner ends being integrally joined together by an intermediate part, the free outer end of said first leg part being bent to define an inwardly projecting hook engageable in a first opening in the outer edge panel of said first frame member, said second leg part being insertable into a second opening through the outer edge panel of said second frame member and having a length substantially greater than said predetermined vertical spacing between said inner faces of said inner and outer edge panels so that when the miters of said frame members are brought into abutting matching relationship, said hook of said first leg part is inserted into said first opening and said second leg part is inserted into said second opening, the free outer end of said second leg part will extend from the interior of said second frame member into the interior of said first frame member, said second leg part being biased so that at least a portion thereof will bear resiliently on a region of the inner face of the inner edge panel of said first frame member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.