Miscellaneous hardware (e.g. – bushing – carpet fastener – caster – Casters – Bracket supports
Patent
1988-05-02
1989-04-04
Godici, Nicholas P.
Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster,
Casters
Bracket supports
16 30, 16257, 190 18A, 280 37, 280 791A, B60B 3306
Patent
active
048172375
ABSTRACT:
A bracket is provided for connection to the top plate of a wheeled caster, that top plate being generally rectangular and having lateral width W.sub.1 and longitudinal length L.sub.1 dimension. The bracket defines a mounting plate having an upper surface; the bracket includes a longitudinally elongated cantilevered arm of lateral width W.sub.2 and longitudinal length L.sub.2 where L.sub.2 >W.sub.2, the arm having one end integral with the mounting plate, and a free opposite end, there being a transverse abutment on and upstanding at the arm free end, and relative to the arm, the abutment defining a shoulder spaced from the arm free end and facing toward said one end of the arm; the bracket has two longitudinally elongated guides which are laterally spaced apart and have downward facing surfaces, the guides projecting above the level of the mounting plate upper surface to form guide channels for guiding the lengthwise reception of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending opposite edge portions of the caster top plate; the bracket has a laterally elongated stop which projects above the level of the mounting plate upper surface, the stop defining a stop surface facing toward the abutment shoulder, there being a spacing of length L.sub.3 between said stop surface and said abutment shoulder, where L.sub.3 .congruent.L.sub.1 ; and the abutment shoulder normally projects above the upper surface of the mounting plate sufficiently that the arm must be yieldably delected, by finger pressure on the abutment, to allow the caster plate opposite edge portions to slide lengthwise in the channels, whereby the caster plate may then be brought toward and into engagement with the stop shoulder as the plate rides over the abutment and then drops into confined postion between the stop shoulder and abutment shoulder, with the arm then tensioned to urge the plate into engagement with the downward facing surfaces of the guide.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3423786 (1969-01-01), Arias Jr. et al.
patent: 3685852 (1972-08-01), Wendorf et al.
patent: 4731903 (1988-03-01), Kennedy et al.
Bel-Air Plastics, Inc.
Brown Edward A.
Godici Nicholas P.
Haefliger William W.
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