Decorative slab corner fastener
OwnerJohn W. Rickards, Dan Davisinventors
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Abstract
A device for releasably fastening up to four adjacent slab corners to a support wall or ceiling. The device is positioned at a common point of adjacency of a number of slabs. A locking disk having a quadrant notch is rotatively mounted orthogonally to the surface of the slabs, and engages or disengages slots cap in the thickness of the slabs according to the angular orientation of the disk. The device is capped by a decorative rosette having an appendage projecting loop bracket shaped and dimensioned to accommodate a bud vase. The device is particularly indicated for fastening slabs used to cover adjacent funerary crypts.
Claims14
A device, for releasably fastening to a supporting structure, a corner portion of each of a plurality of corner-adjacent cover slabs held in a common plane, which comprises:
- a mounting member;
- means for securing said member to said structure;
- a bolt of a given cross diameter projecting from said member orthogonally to said plane;
- a notched disk mounted on said bolt and being shaped and positioned to engage and disengage, according to angular orientation of said disk, a slot cut parallel to said plane in a corner of each of said slabs;
- means for resiliently allowing a limited multi-directional movement of said disk in relation to said member;
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- means for turning said disk and for indicating said disk's angular position, said means comprising a decorative rosette secured to said disk at one end of said bolt opposite said member;
- and including an appendage projecting radially from said rosette.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.