Plastic retaining peg, particularly for furniture fittings

A dowel-like retaining peg of plastics material which may be fitted by pressing or driven into a bore, particularly for fastening a furniture fitting member (12) to an article of furniture, with an elongate peg portion from whose outer peripheral surface a number of peripheral annular projections extend radially, offset in the longitudinal direction of the peg and with a triangular cross-section tapering towards the exterior and defining a respective knife blade-like retaining ridge, wherein the furniture fitting member is plastic and the peg portion (18) has a substantially smaller diameter over the major portion of its longitudinal extent with respect to the diameter (d) of the associated bore (16), that the peripheral annular projections are construed as annular disc-shaped, elastically deformable fins (20) which are integrally attached to the peg portion (18), and that the external diameter (D) of the annular projections in the undeformed state is greater than the diameter (d) of the associated bore (16), said retaining peg being integrally connected to the plastic furniture fitting member (12), said peg portion (18) and said plastic furniture fitting member (12) have a longitudinal bore (29) which is open on the side of the furniture fitting member (12) remote from the peg portion and into which the shaft of a retaining screw (24') is screwed, said fins (20) forming the annular projections only have the triangular cross-section forming the retaining ridge (22) in the outer edge region and are otherwise of substantially flat surfaced construction in the undeformed state, and the sections (18b;

• 18c;
• 18d) of the peg portion (18) remaining between each two sucessive fins (20) in the longitudinal direction have a diameter which decreases incrementally from the bore mouth end of the fastening bore (16) to the inner end of the bore.