Abstract: A furniture tipping restraint for use in helping to prevent furniture such as chests of drawers, bookcase shelves, television carts, etc., from tipping over and away from a building wall. The furniture tipping restraint includes a first anchor which is attached to the wall whereagainst the furniture is located and a second anchor which is attached to the back wall of the furniture. A restraint strap extends through holes in both of the anchors and includes a clamping aperture at one end thereof for receiving the other end of the restraint strap for forming a loop and thereby tying together the anchors and effectively restraining the furniture from tipping away from the wall. In another embodiment, a restraint strap includes a securement portion for attachment directly to either a wall or the furniture. An attachment clamp also includes a securement portion and is attached directly to either the wall or the furniture.

Abstract: A leaf support for selectively supporting and placing drop leaves of tables and wall mounts in an in use position or a storage position. The leaf support includes a pair of channel-shaped arms pivotally connected at one end about an arms pivot axis. The other ends of the arms are adapted for pivotal attachment to a drop leaf or frame to which the drop leaf is connected. A helical spring is located within the channel-shaped arms and connected to the two arms at its ends thereof. A ring and cover member including a U-shaped member having a base portion and two legs attached thereto and a ring connected to the base portion is provided. The two arms near their pivotal connection are received within and between the two legs and the legs are pivotally connected to the arms so as to pivot about the arms pivot axis.

Abstract: A selectively lockable latch to be used, for example, in fastening two furniture parts or the like in temporary alignment comprises a bolt member, a strike box unit and a lock rod. The bolt member includes a projecting nose and a channel which bisects the nose to define a slideway for the lock rod and to divide the nose into a pair of flexible arms. A snap-latch arrangement acts latchably between the bolt member and the strike box unit and includes selectively interengagable cam surface elements. The lock rod is slidably received in the nose channel to be selectively disposed between the flexible nose arms in one position to prevent covergence of the arms and to lock the bolt member in the strike box unit, the lock rod being selectively withdrawable from between the flexible nose arms into a second longitudinal position whereby to permit convergence of the arms and release of the bolt member from the strike box unit.