Abstract: A stretcher frame for an artist's painting canvas which include a plurality of individual frame members specifically designed to permit the outer peripheral dimensions thereof to be expanded to enlarge the dimensions of the frame and stretch the canvas. The structure includes a sliding bridge connection between the adjacent frame members in a manner to cause tilting of the inner peripheral edges rearwardly away from the canvas secured to said outer edges and thus, prevent brush contact with the underlying frame surface during the painting operation. A spreading force is applied as by wedges, to the ends of said adjacent members to spread the adjacent mating surfaces apart to expand the outer frame dimensions.

Abstract: A plug-assembled multi-shelf sectional display rack constituted of a plurality of horizontal and vertical hollow sections joined together at their ends by corner junctions having vertically and horizontally extending plugs engageable within the hollows of the sections. Each section is provided with a longitudinally extending inwardly facing recess which merges into a hollow longitudinal guide extending axially of the section. Mounted within the recesses and guides of the vertical sections are inwardly extending supports having horizontal surfaces for holding shelves. The supports determine the vertical spacing between the shelves. They include guide sections engageable within the hollow axially extending guides of the sections. Vertical gaps are provided between lateral faces formed on the supports and the walls defining the recesses of the vertical sections to permit insertion of vertical panels.

Abstract: A frame for furniture, particularly for display cabinets and showcases, having profiles which form the frame walls and having corner pieces to which the profiles are connected at profile-corner piece connections. At least one profile abuts bluntly on an associated end surface of a corner piece and is pulled thereagainst by at least one screw on the associated end surface. Such screw has its head resting on the corner piece and is screwed into the butting profile. The corner pieces are of hollow construction and have on at least one end thereof an end wall which the screw grips. The corner pieces have, near the screw, a lateral opening through which the screw is accessible in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the screw.

Abstract: A construction set for the manufacture of frames for furniture, such as display cabinets, showcases and the like, having base profiles and enlargement profiles, wherein the base profiles have on their front viewing side a closed viewing surface and on their back side a profiled connecting edge. The enlargement profiles also have a profile connecting edge which can be connected to the connecting edge of the base profile. The enlargement profiles have, on both oppositely positioned longitudinal edges, respective connecting edges which are constructed mirror-inverted to one another and are also constructed the same as the connecting edges on the base profiles. The construction set also includes connecting profiles insertable between two closely opposed connecting edges such that the inserted connecting profile clamps together the adjacent base and/or enlargement profiles whose connecting edges oppose one another.

Abstract: A drawer for a piece of furniture includes the side walls and a back wall of which are members formed of plastic material. The side members and the back member are, when joined together, moved relatively in vertical direction. The back member has connecting elements in the form of T-shaped rails which slide into corresponding vertical slots in the two side members.

Abstract: Articles of furniture such as showcases, desks, etc. are formed using side and leg members joined at corner structures, the side members defining an opening for receiving a panel, each side member having an elongated, lipped channel which receives a retainer for holding a panel such as a retainer for holding a panel such as a glass pane. Each retainer has a flange portion which is longitudinally slidable into engagement with the lipped channel, a surface which abuts the side member and an upstanding wall to engage the panel edge. In one form the wall has a bent edge to overlie the panel, preventing the panel from being lifted out of the opening in a direction parallel with itself. Interconnection structures and trim strips usable with the structure are also disclosed.

Abstract: A building directory display system is disclosed having a light source positioned within a housing and a darkened glass door on the front of the housing. Directly behind the glass door, a plurality of panels are provided on which name strips are positioned. The panel also has a diffuser panel which diffuses light from the light source which then passes through the name strips having a black coating selectively etched to permit light passage therethrough. In order to prevent light from shining through cracks between the panels, each panel has side frames which overlap with one another and which, in combination with a panel retaining frame, permit simple removal of the panels for servicing.

Abstract: Metal clad switchgear apparatus is taught which includes a skeletal arrangement formed from using "five-fold" channel members with eight unitary corner members. Four type "A" corner members are utilized and four type "B" corner members are utilized. The "A" and "B" corner members are formed from utilizing three identical gusset members in any one of two alternate dispositions. The formed corners are self-aligning and self-jigging relative to the channels which interlink them.

Abstract: A display case being rectangular in a plan elevation, characterized by side walls and a door, each consisting of a glass panel (3,4,5,6) of equal thickness having side edges abutting at each other and having fastening means (16,17), some of them being fastened to an upper and a lower frame (1,2) respectively, the outer surfaces of the upper and lower frames (1,2) ending at a distance from the outer surfaces of the glass panels which distance is at least half of the thickness (25) of one of the glass panels, each one of the glass panels at one end abutting with its inner surface at the end face (21) of the neighboring glass panel, and at its other end (22) abutting with its end face (26) at the inner surface of the glass panel neighboring that other end, and that the fastening means (16,17) of the glass panels (3,4,5,6) are not protruding over the outer surface of their glass panel.There also is described a modular display system consisting of several such display cases.

Abstract: Cabinet structure, particularly of the knockdown type. There is provided structural means for cooperation with presently known easily assembled and disassembled shelving structure for converting same into an easily assembled and attractive closed cabinet. Starting with the shelving structure in unchanged condition there is provided a plurality of small clips for the reception and holding of appropriate side and door means for converting said shelving into a closed cabinet.

Abstract: A connecting member for use in interconnecting elongated structural components having openings in their ends, the connecting member including projecting spigot members for engagement in the openings and a cover portion adapted to extend over portions of the outer surfaces of the interconnected components to conceal the joint between them. In one particular arrangement the connecting member comprises a corner piece for interconnecting hollow extruded plastics components to form a tray construction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a connector for releasably joining a plurality of substantially planar elements, such as shelves and uprights, together in a predetermined angular relationship by gripping adjacent edge portions of the respective elements. The connector comprises a central core member and a series of gripping members which screw into the core member and grip the planar elements therebetween.

Abstract: This invention relates to a showcase for displaying the commodities used in shops, department stores, etc. More particularly, it relates to a showcase comprising: tube shaped shelf pillars having a plurality of bored holes in a longitudinal direction of an inner wall surface; corner sashes for receiving the shelf pillars, to which glass plates are attached at their sides, the corner sashes respectively covering the circumferences of the shelf pillars; horizontal tubes; joint mechanisms connecting each shelf pillar to each horizontal tube; and shelf assemblies structured with a hook at each end engageable with a hole of the shelf pillar.

Abstract: A panel molding support structure for use with a display case, including an outer frame located within a particular plane including at least four tubular members, each having substantially the same cross-section and interconnected at end portions by joints to form the outer frame and with the four tubular members located within the particular plane and with the tubular members having a square cross-section and turned angularly to have an angular orientation, an inner frame located within the particular plane including at least four moldings extending along and complementary to the tubular members to form the inner frame and with the inner frame located within the outer frame and within the particular plane, the moldings each including an angular outer surface extending along the length of the molding and with the angular outer surface matching the angular orientation of the tubular members to have the moldings forming the inner frame matching and conforming to the outer angular configuration of the outer fram

Abstract: A furniture drawer of knock-down construction. The furniture drawer comprises front, side, rear, and bottom panels. The front panel has vertical, spaced apart, grooves of female dove-tail configuration in the inner face adjacent and parallel to the vertical marginal edges, and a groove in its inner face adjacent and parallel to the lower marginal edge. A pair of side panels respectively have one marginal edge of male dove-tail construction adapted to be received in the respective vertical grooves of the front panel. The side panels additionally have a groove in their respective inner faces adjacent and parallel to the opposite vertical marginal edge and a groove adjacent and parallel to their lower marginal edge. The rear panel has a groove in the inner face adjacent and parallel to its lower marginal edge, and a pair of grooves in the inner face adjacent and parallel to its vertical marginal edges.

Abstract: The fitting is intended especially for forming the rear corners of a drawer and comprises at each end of the rear wall a hook formation extending therefrom in the plane of the rear wall. Each lateral wall's end portions is formed with an elongate opening through which the hook formation of the rear wall is entered. On the side remote from that from which the hook formation is entered through the opening, each lateral wall portion has an upstanding flange over which the claw or hook of the hook formation engages. On the opposite edge of the opening is a further upstanding flange towards which the other flange is slightly inclined to leave a gap less in width than the maximum thickness of the hook of a hook formation and at least one of the flanges is resilient so that when the hook seats over the edge of flange it is biassed to that position by the action of the flanges.

Abstract: A plurality of moldings for supporting sliding doors having a recessed bottom portion in combination with a shelf and display system of the type wherein an outer frame is formed in a particular plane of at least four tubular members each having substantially the same cross-section and each interconnected at end portions by joints and with the moldings having the following cross sections and including a groove extending along the length of each molding with the groove having a configuration to receive a portion of the outer surface of the tubular member to provide for the moldings interlocked with the tubular member, a channel extending along the length of the side moldings for receiving edge portions of the sliding doors, a pair of parallel channels extending along the length of the top molding for receiving and guiding top portions of the sliding doors, a pair of upstanding support portions extending along the length of the bottom molding for receiving and supporting the recessed bottom portions of the slidi

Abstract: A cold display case which can be assembled easily and quickly on the spot without particular specialized skill is provided. Frames for the cold display case are constructed with generally rectangular pipes and connectors, said connectors each having a main body and a plurality of engaging arms crossing at right angles to each other.

Abstract: A cupboard, chest or like article of furniture having a top, front wall, side walls and rear wall, has its top wall formed from a panel of wood composition completely encased in a sheath of synthetic resin which also forms a frame around the periphery of the top and is integrally molded with formations adapted to connect the top to the walls of the article. These formations can include tongues or blades adapted to fit snugly into hollows of the walls and/or spaced-apart lips or flanges adapted to receive a wall between them.

Abstract: A connector for holding together a plurality of pocket style molded containers or other modular articles and having a web bearing retainers providing channels that engage and receive edge portions of the containers or articles to hold them in a predetermined configuration established by the arrangement of the retainers on the web.

Abstract: An adjustable glass display case, which permits ready assembly and disassembly, is provided which includes a frame having four glass plates, a generally horizontally-disposed top plate, a generally horizontally-disposed base plate and two upstanding, spaced-apart side plates disposed generally between the top and bottom plates. Each of the glass plates has two longitudinally-extending, spaced-apart rows of holes formed therethrough and is detachably secured to the other plates of the frame adjacent thereto. The case also includes a back glass plate disposed adjacent to, and detachably secured to the frame. In addition, at least one vertical glass divider is positioned between and disposed generally parallel to said side plates and is detachably secured to the top plate and bottom plate by a clamping assembly which is at least partially retained within at least one of the holes of the top and bottom plates.

Abstract: A refrigerated display cabinet interior shelf system has one piece standards for shelf support. The standards are manually removeable from slotted brackets fixed to mullions in a cabinet structure. The standards have surfaces fully exposed to the cabinet interior. Each standard can maintain two shelf supporting clips on opposite sides at the same vertical dimension. The shelf system is manually disassembleable, and when assembled effectively eliminates protruding threaded fastener elements and multiple components in the shelf support system.

Abstract: A knock-down cupboard assembly having a rear wall, two pairs of side walls and a door, the door being removably mounted on a frame, the frame having two opposing sides each being formed by two vertical corner posts having spaced horizontal glide rails fastened thereto, wherein: The rear wall is provided with retaining brackets for engagement with the frame and one of the pair of side walls being provided with a number of retaining brackets for engaging against an inside of a third corner post, and the other pair of side walls being provided with retaining fittings for engaging an inside of the remaining corner post.

Abstract: A cabinet corner cap assembly for insertion into a space at the junction of two panels of a cabinet. The corner cap assembly includes a corner cap that has a top and two downwardly projecting breakable studs inserted through the cabinet space. A foam seal element through which the studs pass is also provided. There is a clip having two openings to receive therethrough the corner cap studs with the clip openings being dimensioned to frictionally grip the studs. The clip is retained in a housing which housing abuts the junction of the cabinet panels and also has a projection with two openings to also receive therethrough the corner cap studs. A corner bracket shaped correspondingly to the cabinet panels and secured thereto has a tang spaced from the junction of the cabinet panels and positioned such that the clip housing projection abuts the top of the tang.

Abstract: A mounting socket is installed within a refrigerator which has a thin inner liner wall and an outer cabinet with an insulation space therebetween. The socket is capable of receiving a horizontally extending mounting bracket associated with an internal shelf. The socket has a body with an opened first end, a closed second end and an intermediate section. The intermediate section of the body is positioned within a hole in the inner liner with its second end located within the insulation space. The body has a cavity which is capable of receiving the horizontally extending mounting bracket. The socket has a lip which radially extends from the first end for sealed engagement with a first side of the wall. The socket also includes a plurality of locating dimples which extend radially from the intermediate portion of the body to overlie the other side of the wall to prevent the socket from being withdrawn from the hole.

Abstract: A frame construction adapted for use in framing panels and forming parallelepiped configurations. The frame construction includes tubular panel edging elements, each defining a pair of opposed arcuate leg portions and interconnecting bight portions, with the legs defining spaced inturned distal ends cooperatively defining a panel edge receiving space. The edging elements are connected by means of corner connectors which connect the ends of a pair of the edging elements. The corner connectors include a body portion defining first and second perpendicularly related portions, a first pair of tongues extending in spaced parallel relationship from the first portion, with each tongue thereof having a segmentally cylindrical outer surface adapted to frictionally engage the arcuate leg portions of the edging elements.

Abstract: The specification discloses a rigid furniture assembly and assembly method for providing shelving and the like wherein no fasteners or fastener-receiving openings are visible after assembly. The assembly includes joined panels having abutting joint surfaces lying in three mutually perpendicular planes. At least two parallel panels are secured to a perpendicular third panel, the two panels with the third attached thereto also being joined to parallel, commonly facing surface portions of a fourth panel. The panels are joined using pockets recessed in edges of the panels, which pockets receive slidingly engageable, recessed fastening means including slotted clips and headed, shouldered screws received in the clips. The panels slide together without the necessity of any bending or distortion such that all recessed pockets and fasteners are hidden after assembly.

Abstract: A support system for panel members including an outer frame including at least four tubular members interconnected at end portions by joints to form the outer frames, an inner frame including at least four moldings extending along and complementary to the tubular members to form the inner frame and with the inner frame located within the outer frame, the moldings each including a groove extending along the length of the molding and with the groove having a configuration to receive a portion of the tubular member and with the grooves providing for the inner frame interlocked within the outer frame, and the moldings each including a channel extending along the length of the molding and with the channels receiving and supporting a panel member within the inner frame.

Abstract: A connector for securely connecting prefabricated sections consisting of horizontal and vertical frame members interconnected into a unitary structure by the connector consisting essentially of a body arranged to slidably fit into a connector-receiving cavity adjacent one end of a vertical member, a threaded extension arranged to be entered into a threaded orifice carried at the junction of a pair of abutting horizontal members and means, such as a grub-screw, for tightening the body in said cavity in the assembled position of the furniture structure.

Abstract: A spherical junction element for composable display structures, comprising a body having at least one partially spherical outside surface, at least one flat outside surface intersecting the partially spherical surface, at least one slot in said partially spherical surface, which is perpendicular to at least one of the flat surfaces for fittingly receiving therein a plate like component member and for defining a base plane with at least one of the flat surfaces, a pin in the slot having a diameter less than the gap of the slot, and a reinforcing sleeve element pulled over the pin, the sleeve element being provided with two or more surface portions to engage the mating surface portions of the slot.

Abstract: This chassis has side, top, bottom and rear plates which are made out of sheet stock and where are oriented at 90.degree. with respect to each other. Bifurcated tongues are formed in edges of plates. Elongated slots are also formed in plates at points spaced away from the edges thereof. The slots and tongues are dimensioned and oriented on the plates such that in an assembled shelf, the bifurcated tongues are located in associated slots so as to form square openings defined by walls of the associated slots and bifurcations-openings. Self-tapping screws threaded into the square openings and axially aligned bifurcations-openings cut threads in the walls defining these aligned openings over the full grip length of the screws to hold the plates together.

Abstract: Container for use as a cabinet, in particular as a bathroom cabinet, shelf and similar, with a back wall and side walls having U-section covering panels, in which the back wall of the container is formed by a framework of U-section bars provided with at least one back wall panel, the sides of these bars protruding at right angles from the back wall, with the profiled frame bars being held together by fixed corner angle pieces slipped in between the sides mentioned and positively connected with these, these corner angle pieces projecting -- in the wall planes, beyond the profiled frame bars, with U-section wall covering panels being positively attached onto the sides of these corner angle pieces.

Abstract: A cabinet-like furniture unit of cellular structure having generally large area door arrangements for closing the open fronts of the cells; handling ledges or strips are mounted at the edges of the doors, with finger grooves provided in the outer surfaces of each of the handling ledges opening in a direction generally parallel to the main exterior surface of the respective door, and with profile bands of generally T-shaped transverse cross section sheathing the front edges of the cell walls; the handling ledges and profile bands are arranged in such manner that in the closed condition of the doors, the inner longitudinal edge of the outer surface of the handling ledge is in close proximity to the adjacent edge of the cross bar of the profile band, whereby, as viewed from the front, the handling ledge and associated profile band form a homogeneous whole. A novel profile band comprising two separate parts is also disclosed.

Abstract: A component for use in interconnecting the front and side walls of a drawer in which the walls are formed from hollow extruded plastic panels, the component comprising a corner post having locating members projecting in two directions at right angles to one another, and detents on the locating members for engagement in apertures in the wall panels, the detents on the locating members which engage the front wall panel being formed on the inner faces of the members.

Abstract: Building components are disclosed for constructing of frames, enclosures, and the like, comprising hollow edge struts all of uniform cross section, with the ends of each edge strut providing a female joint. Interlocking members are provided having a central member with a plurality of legs extending outwardly from the central member and at fixed angles to each other, the legs each defining a male member adapted to be inserted in said female joint. The legs have locking clip recesses formed therein in at least two adjacent surfaces of the legs, the locking clip recesses spanning substantially the entire width and length of the surfaces of the legs. An abuttment shoulder is formed at the central member and end of the locking clip recess which the edge strut butts up against when installed.

Abstract: Components for forming a drawer or other tray-like structure comprise hollow wall members, conveniently plastics extrusions, defining mortice sockets in their ends, and corner or front connecting members, conveniently plastics mouldings, having tenons engageable in said sockets and retained by triangular or similar detents which snap-engage with complementary apertures in walls of the sockets. The detents are carried on the free ends of resilient tongues, which free ends are directed away from the free ends of the tenons, and edge faces of the detents diverge away from their leading tips to a substantially broader abutment part which may include an undercut abutment face for greater security. Provision may be made for the tenons to be glued as well as or instead of being solely retained by the detents, of which the following is a specification.

Abstract: A fastening device for an adjustable front panel of pull-out furniture parts, particularly for drawers having guide rails, wherein each guide rail has a supporting part with a fastening leaf for cooperation with a retaining part secured to the front panel, and the retaining part being angularly adjustably located on the supporting part at least with respect to height, and being fixable in position by means of fastening screws, comprising an eccentric located in the fastening leaf, which cooperates with a stop in the retaining part.

Abstract: A cabinet assembly of the knockdown type which can be packaged and shipped in an easily handled, relatively compact container, and which can be readily assembled by a user into an attractive, durable, multi-purpose cabinet. The assembly comprises top and bottom members, side members, a rear member, two cross-members, and doors. One, or more, shelves may be provided for the cabinet. Threaded, screw-engaging, nut-like elements are welded directly onto various of the members comprising the assembly to facilitate interconnection of the members into a rigid, high-strength structure. Casters may be provided for the cabinet to enable it to be moved to any desired location.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic equipment enclosure assembled from four basic components including (a) frame rail members, (b) corner connector clips, (c) panel support clips, and (d) panel sheets. The frame members each include a pair of right angled walls terminating at flanges which form adjacent pairs of parallel, longitudinally extending internal and external slots. The internal slots receive the clips of the invention, namely, unique, simply constructed connector clips at the mitered joints to fasten the frame members in an assembled mutually perpendicular relation, and panel corner connector clips to engage and support the wall panels and/or shelves of the enclosure. The novel corner connector clip is generally dish shaped and comprises three extending arm members disposed in planes in a mutual perpendicular relation.

Abstract: A vertical plastic straight wall divider for compartments and shelves which cannot be removed unless the goods lined up against the divider in the compartment are removed; said divider permits cold air flow between the compartments when used in freezers. Partitions may be attached on said divider, if desired, either on one or both sides thereof; if the partitions are used on both sides they are locked onto said divider.

Abstract: A sash or a door has a vertically adjustable top rail by which the vertical size of the door or window is adjusted to suit the opening in a window frame or door frame, there being an adjusting device by which the top rail is selectably positioned. The adjusting device includes a supporting member for being secured to a vertical surface beneath the top rail, a wing projecting horizontally therefrom and disposed at one side of the supporting member, and an adjusting screw carried by the horizontal wing and engageable with the top rail from below.

Abstract: A lock arrangement for securing a first panel to a second panel, and including a bolt having a head formed to the outer end of a shaft. A resilient means encircles the shaft and is operatively associated with the first panel, and the head of the bolt is operatively associated with the second panel. The panels are secured together by the force of the resilient means when the head is locked in the second panel, and the panels are released when the head is dis-engaged from the second panel. Alternatively, a panel may be secured to a bracket using said bolt and said resilient means, or a pair of panels may be secured to a bracket utilizing a pair of said bolts and a pair of said resilient means.

Abstract: The door frame for an overlapping door has two posts which define facing vertical grooves which are of utility as a keeper for the latch or lock of the door mounted on the frame.The front face of at least one of the posts has a vertical dovetail groove in which an extension of a fixed hinge part of a hinge is slidably engaged. For the purpose of holding the extension fast in the dovetail groove by the effect of friction at the desired height there is provided at least one screw which is screwthreadedly engaged in a tapped hole in the extension and has for effect to tighten the assembly between the extension and the surfaces of the dovetail groove.

Abstract: A balustrade having a series of balusters connected to both top and bottom rails or, if desired, to a top rail only is disclosed which can be completed by assembling standardized parts. The top and bottom rails each includes a horizontal baluster mounting plate facing inwardly, and this mounting plate has an aperture extending along one of the longitudinal edges thereof and a series of longitudinally spaced recesses open to the aperture. The end portions of the balusters are inserted into the respective recesses of the mounting plate, either directly or via the aperture. Means are provided in several forms of construction for locking the baluster end portions within the recesses. The aperture can be closed by a separate filler plate, which is adaptable either to snap into position in the aperture or to slide longitudinally therein.

Abstract: A tensioning device for enabling application of a variable tension that may be securely maintained against an artist's canvas mounted on stretcher bars. The tensioning assembly includes a bracket member provided with a pair of ears or the like for threadably mounting an adjusting screw which may be locked upon appropriate adjustment. Preferably, a pair of tensioning devices are provided at intersecting corners of conventional mitered tongue and groove stretcher bars such that each device rigidly affixed to a corresponding bar is disposed to apply an adjustable and readily maintainable tension to the adjacent bar upon appropriate adjustment of respective adjusting screws. In this manner, a canvas or other flexible member affixed to the stretcher bars may be stretched to a desired extent by application of a carefully controlled tensioning force applied by adjusting screws.