Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Bale and package ties – hose clamps – With tighteners
Patent
1981-05-07
1983-09-06
Mancene, Gene
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Bale and package ties, hose clamps
With tighteners
A44B 1700
Patent
active
044021178
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to fixing devices, and more particularly to fixing devices which removably engage base plates and top plates covering the surface thereof.
BACKGROUND ART
As one line of household furniture there are known dining tables and salon tables having decorative patterns such as plants, scenery etc. on the surface. They are ready made in a manufacturing plant by fixing a top surface panel material having a decorative pattern, i.e. a top plate, with leg parts by woodwork or by using metal fixing devices. The reason for that is because if a base plate and a top plate having a decorative pattern were separately fabricated in a plant and assembled at a retailer's shop, this operation would be troublesome and it would be impossible to fix the base plate and the top plate with their four corners in the exact positions. For that reason, the so-called knock-down production of furniture involving top plates has thus been impeded. Also in ordinary homes, coffee shops etc. where such furniture is used, it is difficult to separate both plates. Therefore, for example, when it was desired to change the interior decoration by replacing the top plate by another one having a different pattern or by one having no decoration, according to changes of the seasons, it has been necessary to change the whole piece of furniture, i.e. the dining table, the salon table or the like, into a new one, and therefore very uneconomical. Furthermore, in the case where a scratch or scratches on the top plate of the table become outstanding sufficiently to be rejected for commercial use, it was also necessary to change the whole table into a newly bought one.
This invention provides fixing devices which can be obtained by the knock-down production, which can easily and removably fix a top plate and a base plate (the side where legs are provided) by preparing one base plate and several top plates having different patterns and changing the top plates when the interior decoration is desired to be changed, for example, in each season, and which are in such structure that a molded part, i.e. a male form, to be fixed with a top plate is inserted into another molded part, i.e. female form, to be fixed with a base plate and both plates are tightly fixed and secured by an engaging rod.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, this invention is a fixing device which comprises a pair of molded parts which can removably fix a base plate and a top plate covering the surface thereof, which fixing device is characterized by that the surfaces of said pair of molded parts are tightly fastened in such way that one part is inserted into the other by an engaging rod having a head part and a shaft part provided with a T-shaped stopper section at the tip, and further by that said pair of molded parts comprises a saucer-shaped molded part for the base plate, said molded part comprising a through hole provided in the center for said engaging rod to pass through and having a cross section of a form, a fringe part around said hole, fixing leg parts on its rear surface to be inserted into fixing holes provided on the base plate, and a cylindrical part situated immediately below said through hole for the head part of said engaging rod to be inserted, and a flat plate-shaped molded part for the top plate and for being tightly inserted into said saucer-shaped molded part for the base plate, said molded part comprising a through hole in the center for said engaging rod to pass through and having a cross section of a form, fixing leg parts on its top surface to be inserted into fixing holes provided on the rear surface of the top plate, and a cylindrical part situated immediately below said through hole and having on its inner periphery an engaging structure which engages with the tip stopper section of said engaging rod.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The drawing shows one example of this invention; in which
FIG. 1 shows a molded part for a base plate, in which (a) is its top view, (b) is a cross-sectional view of (a) along Line X-
REFERENCES:
patent: 3407454 (1968-10-01), Myatt
Contreras Wenceslao J.
Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
Mancene Gene
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