Ganging bracket for a shelf unit
AssigneeHaworth, Inc.
InventorsPeter J. Beyer, Tom Dykstra, Mark A. Powell
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Abstract
A furniture component arrangement includes a ganging bracket useful for securing a pair of adjacent flanges of adjacent office furniture components in a workstation. The ganging bracket includes ganging parts that are designed for positioning about flanges projecting outwardly from a back wall extending along a length of an office furniture component. The ganging parts each include a male section including a flange slot, a female section forming a female slot, and a vertical offset joining the male section and the female section. The ganging parts also include a substantially identical second ganging part. Each of the ganging parts also includes a channel, aligned with the vertical offset and extending along a portion of the ganging part.
Claims16
A ganging bracket for use in securing a pair of adjacent flanges of adjacent office furniture components comprising:
- a first ganging part having a male section including a flange slot, a female section forming a female slot, and an offset joining said male section and said female section, and
- a second ganging part having a male section including a flange slot, a female section including a female slot, and an offset joining said male section and said female section,
- wherein said female slots of said respective ganging parts are each capable of snugly receiving the male section of the other of said ganging parts such that said first and second ganging parts are joined to form said ganging bracket, said flange slots having open sides adapted to receive adjacent flanges of adjacent office furniture components and to secure adjacent furniture components together.
In a ganging bracket adapted to be secured to and prevent separation of adjacent flanges of adjacent office furniture components comprising:
- first and second ganging parts which are inter-lockable to permit fixed engagement with adjacent edges of office furniture components, each said ganging part having a pair of opposite side walls wherein one of said side walls defines a male section and the other of said side walls defines a female section, each said female section including a female slot adapted to receive said male section of another of said ganging parts, and each said male section including a ganging slot adapted to be engaged with an edge of an office furniture component, said female slot and said ganging slot of each said ganging part extending longitudinally wherein said first and second ganging parts are positionable in opposite orientations with said male section and said female section of one said ganging part being aligned with said female section and said male section respectively of the other said ganging part such that said first and second ganging parts are slidable in said longitudinal direction into engagement with each other wherein said female slot of each said ganging part receives said male section of the other said ganging part in close cooperation therewith, relative movement between said first ganging parts being confined to said longitudinal direction while relative sideward movement of said ganging parts is prevented by said ganging parts such that said ganging slots are fixed in sidewardly spaced relation, said ganging slots adapted to cooperate with office furniture components to prevent relative sideward movement between such office furniture components.
In a ganging bracket adapted to be secured to and prevent separation of adjacent edges of adjacent furniture components comprising:
- first and second ganging parts which are longitudinally interlockable, each said ganging part having an engagement section extending longitudinally along one side of said ganging part, each said ganging part further including a base wall extending sidewardly from said engagement part and having an alignment channel extending longitudinally from a leading edge of said base wall and partially across a longitudinal length of said base wall, said first and second ganging parts being positionable in opposite orientations with said alignment channels being longitudinally aligned with each other and interfitted together upon sliding of said ganging parts towards each other, said engagement parts of said first and second ganging parts defining opposite sides of said ganging bracket, said engagement parts being adapted to cooperate with adjacent edges of office furniture components and being spaced from each other at a fixed sideward distance such that engagement of said engagement parts with adjacent edges of furniture components prevents relative sideward movement of the adjacent edges.
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