Connecting assembly for joining two panels and mounting the joined panels on a support
AssigneeDynamic Marketing Group Limited
InventorDavid Grenville Pountney
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Abstract
An assembly and method for mounting two panels where a first member is mounted to, into or from a support, a second member is threaded to said mounted first member, and a third member is threaded to said second member when it is already threadingly engaged to said mounted first member, wherein said second member has a portion extending through a hole in a first panel and into said first member so as to retain between the first and second member the first panel and wherein the third member has a portion extending through a hole in a first panel and into said second member so as to retain between the first and second member the second panel.
Claims14
A display assembly comprising:
- two panels having corresponding openings therethrough;
- plural first members;
- plural second members that extend through respective ones of said openings in one of said two panels and threadingly engage respective ones of said plural first members to attach said plural first members to said one of said two panels,
- each of said plural first members having a first longitudinal bore that threadingly receives a respective one of said plural second members and a second longitudinal bore with a smaller diameter than said first longitudinal bore and through which said display assembly is arranged and adapted to be mounted on a support;
- and
- plural third members that extend through respective ones of said openings in a second of said two panels and threadingly engage respective ones of said plural second members to attach said second of said two panels to said one of said two panels.
A method of assembling a display comprising the steps of:
- providing two panels having corresponding openings therethrough;
- mounting plural first members to a support;
- attaching one of the two panels to the plural first members by extending plural second members through respective ones of the openings in the one of the two panels, the plural second members threadingly engaging first longitudinal bores in respective ones of the plural first members,
- each of the plural first members having a second longitudinal bore with a smaller diameter than the first longitudinal bore and through which the plural first members were mounted on the support;
- and
- attaching the second of the two panels to the one of the two panels by extending plural third members through respective ones of the openings in the second of the two panels and threadingly engaging respective ones of the plural second members, the display being between the two panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.