Abstract: A slippage preventing locking furniture fastener, method of making same, and a joint structure which includes a flexible locking clip and shouldered screw. The clip has a raised central portion having an inclined slot therein which is connected to a furniture piece by securing flanges. An internal locking flange extends at an upward angle toward the raised central portion and terminates below the slot, adjacent the head of a shouldered screw received in a seating area. The free end of the locking flange is wider than the slot to prevent the locking flange from passing through the slot or allowing the joint to loosen, even when substantial force is applied to the joint including the clip.A method for forming the clip is also disclosed including cutting a configured tab in a metal blank and bending the blank. The bending includes positioning the tab as a locking flange with its free end adjacent a narrower slot portion in a raised central portion.

Abstract: The specification discloses a furniture assembly including interlocked panels such as dividers and shelves and a method for assembling same. The assembly includes one panel joined to a series of other panels and moveable between partially assembled and fully assembled positions. A second of the other panels is aligned with fasteners on the partially assembled panel and locked in position by movement of the one panel to its fully assembled position. The second panel is thus secured in two separate planes. The moveable, locking panel includes access openings to its fasteners to both facilitate mounting and allow later disassembly. Preferably, concealed, recessed, slidably engageable slotted clips and headed screws are used as fasteners.

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: The specification discloses a joint structure for securing panel members tightly together wherein the joining apparatus is concealed from view after assembly and the panel members are prevented from skewing with respect to one another during assembly. The structure includes a clip on one panel, the clip having a raised section with a slot engaging the head of a stud mounted in a recessed area of another panel. The recess walls guide the protruding clip for engagement with the stud to prevent skew. In one arrangement, the clip includes openings to either end of the slot therein to allow use in combination with a second clip such that the stud will pass completely through the one clip before coming to rest in the other clip.