Fences – Rail – Connection
Patent
1989-07-27
1990-09-25
Kundrat, Andrew V.
Fences
Rail
Connection
256 59, 403191, E04H 1714
Patent
active
049588079
ABSTRACT:
A rail assembly is provided which includes a rail support bracket. The rail support bracket is an extruded member have a rail receiving opening and a pair of legs. Each of the legs has a plurality of parallel locking wedge means. The locking wedge means is transverse to the legs. The legs are capable of being received in a rail structure having locking wedge means at right angles to and positioned for engagement with the plurality of parallel, longitudinally extending, inwardly directed wedge shaped locking means. The assembly can also include first rail member and a second rail member, each having one end received in the rail receiving opening, and a wedge locking means. The wedge locking means has a first region force fit between an end of the first rail member and the bracket rail receiving opening and a second region force fit between one end of the second rail member and the bracket rail receiving opening. Through the force fit at least one of either the wedge locking means and/or the rail member is distorted, thereby locking rails in said bracket. In an additional embodiment the wedge locking means is an extruded plastic member and is distorted by the force between a rail and the bracket.
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Kundrat Andrew V.
Parker Sheldon H.
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