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US 6,682,041 B1Granted
Structural fixture assembly and method of making same
AssigneeBill Branham Designs, Ltd.
InventorWilliam K. Branham, II
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Abstract
A structural fixture assembly arrangement including a through-passage defining frame member and at least one cooperative slotted standard body member engaging therewith and including a foot rest arrangement extending therefrom to provide an erected position for the structural assembly.
Claims22
A structural fixture assembly comprising:
- a frame member having an internal perimeter defining an uninterrupted through-passage therein surrounded by selectively spaced opposed side portions which define an uninterrupted area for surroundingly supporting a foreign article to be disposed in a selected position therewithin;
- and, including at least one standard body member sized to extend into said defined passage, said standard body member being selectively capable to have a longitudinally extending support recess and having slots at opposite extremities thereof capable of engaging in fast interlocked relation with said spaced side opposed portions of said frame member and including at least one assembly resting foot member extendable at a selected angle from said standard body member to provide an erected rest position for said structural assembly.
A structural fixture assembly comprising:
- a rectangular fiber board frame member providing a perimeter defining rectangular through-passage therein surrounded by pairs of spaced opposed side portions, said frame member having opposed pairs of spaced support member aids in the form of spaced apertures disposed on opposite sides of said rectangular frame member to accommodate ties for the suspension of an article in said through-passage in more than one position;
- a pair of two mating fiberboard body members sized to extend for erection into said rectangular through-passage of said frame member along diametrically opposed hypotenuse forming corners thereto, each body member having slots of opposite extremities thereof of sufficient depth and breadth to allow engagement with one pair of said spaced opposed side portions of said rectangular frame member to extend vertically in spaced mirror image fashion along and adjacent said other pair of sides of said rectangular frame;
- each body member including one resting foot member extending substantially normally from said body member to provide an erected position for said structural assembly.
A method of forming and assembling a structural fixture comprising:
- feeding a blank sheet of selected material into a first forming zone to sever a frame member from a portion thereof, said frame member being severed to have a perimeter with spaced side portions defining a through-passage therein;
- feeding a blank sheet of selected material into a second forming zone to sever at least one standard body member having a foot member extendable from said body member to provide a resting foot, said body member including slots at opposite ends thereof, said slots being of sufficient depth and breadth to be capable of snuggly engaging spaced side portions along opposite faces of said spaced opposed side portions of said frame member, and, assembling said body member to said frame member in an additional assembly zone by positioning said body member in said through-passage of said frame member normal to the determining plane of said frame member with the slots of said body member snuggly engaging along opposite faces of spaced opposed portions of said frame member sides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.