Handrail and end member assembly
AssigneeConstruction Specialties, Inc.
InventorThomas A. Shreiner
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Abstract
An end member is joined against axial displacement to a handrail by a lock member that is coupled to a mounting flange portion of the end member against axial movement and for rotation relative to the mounting flange portion. A locking cam portion of the lock member is received in an under cut mounting groove of the handrail and is configured to permit the lock member to be moved axially along the locking groove in an unlocked rotational position relative to the locking groove and to frictionally engage walls of the locking groove in a locked rotational position relative to the locking groove and thereby retain the end member against axial movement relative to the handrail.
Claims17
A handrail and end member assembly comprising
- an elongated handrail having an axis,
- an undercut groove of a generally “C” shape in cross section extending axially along at least an end part of the handrail,
- an end member received adjacent the end part of the handrail and having a mounting flange portion located in overlapping relation to the undercut groove, and
- a lock member coupled to the mounting flange portion so as to prevent movement of the lock member relative to the mounting flange portion in a direction parallel to the handrail axis and to permit rotation relative to the mounting flange portion about a lock member axis perpendicular to the handrail axis and having a locking cam portion received in the mounting groove, the locking cam portion having a configuration to permit the lock member to be moved axially along the locking groove in an unlocked rotational position relative to the locking groove and to frictionally engage walls of the locking groove in a locked rotational position relative to the locking groove and thereby retain the end member against axial movement relative to the handrail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.