Projecting Pin Type Patents (Class 248/239)
  • Patent number: 4218028
    Abstract: The bracket comprises two support members adapted to be secured to a wall or the like at spaced apart positions and two shaft means, each adapted to be removably coupled to one of the support members for supporting a roll of material for rotation between the two support members. Each support member comprises a body having a slot formed therein from one side to an opposite side. Each shaft means comprises a shaft portion adapted to be inserted into the axial opening at one end of the roll of material and a coupling portion having a slot formed therein from one side to an opposite side. A portion of the coupling portion of each shaft means is adapted to be removably received in the slot of one of the support members and a portion of the body of the corresponding support member is adapted to be removably received in the slot of the coupling portion of the shaft means whereby the shaft means may be removably interlocked with the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Assignee: D/FW Plastics
    Inventor: Jay W. Pickens
  • Patent number: 4152034
    Abstract: Known furniture systems of the knock-down type are provided with improved connecting elements; i.e., hinge fixing plates, drawer slides, shelf supports and facing strips, which facilitate assembly and fabrication, increase stability and durability, and refine the appearance of the cabinet. The improved hinge fixing plate includes bearing bosses so arranged and structured as to accept conventionally available hinges in such manner as to permit adjusting of the cabinet door overhang. The improved drawer slide includes a longitudinal open-end rear slot and a transverse or vertical open-bottom forward slot spaced therefrom; the two slots cooperating to form an improved installation means. The shelf support bracket attaches to the side edge of a partial shelf having the rear section cut off to provide clearance for a lighting fixture. The shelf bracket uses countersunk holes to provide clearance between the heads of the attaching screws and the adjusting side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: Dunning, Ltd.
    Inventor: John M. Dunning, III
  • Patent number: 4118088
    Abstract: Known furniture systems of the knock-down type are provided with improved connecting elements; i.e., hinge fixing plates, drawer slides, shelf supports and facing strips, which facilitate assembly and fabrication increase stability and durability, and refine the appearance of the cabinet. The improved hinge fixing plate includes bearing bosses so arranged and structured as to accept conventionally available hinges in such manner as to permit adjusting of the cabinet door overhang. The improved drawer slide includes a longitudinal open-end rear slot and a transverse or vertical open-bottom forward slot spaced therefrom; the two slots cooperating to form an improved installation means. The shelf support bracket attaches to the side edge of a partial shelf having the ear section cut off to provide clearance for a lighting fixture. The shelf bracket uses countersunk holes to provide clearance between the heads of the attaching screws and the adjusting side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1978
    Assignee: Dunning, Ltd.
    Inventor: John M. Dunning, III
  • Patent number: 4044448
    Abstract: A method of making articles of furniture, which can be assembled or disassembled, by a suitable combination of a plurality of sheet-like assembling members. A single rope is passed through through-holes made in the assembling members to tighten up the members. The tractive force of the rope may be utilized in assembly or disassembly of articles of furniture. The articles as desired may be rigidly and extremely simply assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Inventors: Kazuko Watanabe, Mitsuko Arai
  • Patent number: 4040463
    Abstract: A one-piece, molded fastener for self-retention in an apertured panel. The fastener provides a means for receiving and retaining a mounting member attached from one side of the panel and will seal the aperture from the other side of the panel. The fastener includes a slotted insertion member with a plurality of radially outwardly extending protuberances on one end thereof to self-retainingly engage the apertured panel and to receive said mounting means and a dished head on the other end thereof to engage the side of the panel from which the fastener is inserted and to seal said aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Petrus
  • Patent number: 4004526
    Abstract: A plurality of anchors are secured to a vertical support surface in a horizontally spaced relationship. A plurality of racks or shelves are detachably suspended between the anchors by an inner hanger and an outer hanger. The anchors and hangers permit the ends of adjacent racks to be suspended at a single point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Straits Steet & Wire Co.
    Inventor: Clarence J. King
  • Patent number: 3945595
    Abstract: A refrigerator shelf support member for use with those refrigerators having a sheet metal internal wall panel and which is inserted through the wall comprises a shelf support member and a steel fastener. The steel fastener is a flat member having a pointed tip, two outwardly curved portions outwardly and oppositely directed from the tip, and two tapered portions, all of which portions of the steel fastener protrude from the shelf support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1976
    Assignee: Simmons Fastener Corporation
    Inventor: Ernest Schlueter