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US 8,522,986 B2Granted
Locking pegboard
OwnerMichael Kitcheninventor
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Abstract
The present invention provides a pegboard-type organization system for articles to be displayed or secured in-place. The pegs can be locked onto the board to support either a weight placed thereon or a side-ways pressure applied thereto. The support can be either rigid or elastic, depending on whether gripping or load-bearing functionality is required. The inventive system allows a board to be flush-mounted to a support surface, and thereby avoids the wasted space conventionally taken up with such substructures as fir strips.
Claims17
A flush-mount attachment system for an array of articles, comprising:
- an essentially flat board having a front side and a back side, the front side having a pattern of convex blisters thereon, each blister having orthogonally circular cross-sections, an inside surface, a blister recess defined by said inside surface, and a key-slot aperture into said blister recess;
- at least one peg having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end having a means for releasably engaging a selected blister by insertion into the blister recess through the key slot aperture, the distal end having a means for engaging an article;
- a flared skirt on the at least one peg, the flared skirt having a concave skirt recess complementary to the convex blister, the flared skirt enclosing the blister while permitting the peg to stand against the flat board for broad-based buttress-like support in the round;
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- a means for reversibly locking the at least one peg to the selected blister;
- whereby a preferred layout of pegs is configurable from the front side of the essentially flat board with the back side flush to a support surface, each peg being braced against the weight of, or otherwise pressure from, an article placed against, or attached to, said peg.
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