Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Plural related horizontal surfaces – Separable component
Patent
1999-03-11
2000-09-26
Cuomo, Peter M.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Plural related horizontal surfaces
Separable component
108 91, 10814713, 211188, 403292, 403309, A47B 4700
Patent
active
061230359
ABSTRACT:
Shelf assembly system for the rapid assembly of planar shelf boards, desks, tables, audio racks and the like, having opposing interchangeable connector assemblies located at the ends of a leg where each connector assembly frictionally engages a bore in a planar shelf board or other flat horizontal surfaces. The interchangeable connector assemblies include tapered and split male and female connectors which mutually engage and compress inwardly toward each other and outwardly against the planar shelf board bore to secure the leg to each planar shelf board. In a variation, a shelf assembly system is constructed of planar shelf boards and tubular legs having tapered ends connected together with one-piece flexible flanged connectors each composed of right and left mirror-image structures joined by living hinges.
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Cuomo Peter M.
Jaeger Hugh D.
Tran Hanh V.
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