Abstract: A number of relatively wide, preferably wooden panels are shaped and proportioned to cover the entire areas of a back, a seat, or an end of a sofa or chair. The panels have tabs or hooks and mating slots which fit into each other when the panels come together in a proper fit. At that time the parts are interconnected by wedge-shaped pegs. The shapes, angles and dimensions of these tabs, hooks and slots are such that the panels inherently wedge together more tightly, as the furniture supports the weight of one or more persons. The panels become even more tightly wedged together when the people sitting upon the furniture move and shift their weight. A similar approach enables tables or other articles of furniture to be assembled in a similar manner.

Abstract: An angle member is attached to the intersecting side walls of a pinball game by means of screws or the like. A channel member is fixedly attached, as by welding, adjacent to the interior corner of the angle member, the corners of the channel defining stops in contact with the intersecting side walls. A leg having substantially perpendicular flanges is in juxtaposition with the flanges of the angle. Screws attach the legs to the channel.

Abstract: A knock-down shelving structure has corner posts with upstanding studs on their inner sides, the studs being triangular in cross section and presenting two of their faces parallel to the inner faces of the posts, and also has shelves with triangular sockets at their corners and on the under sides to snugly receive the studs.

Abstract: A shelf system having a series of support surfaces which are retained in cooperative, spaced relation by an article constructed from a blank of material which is cut and scored in a predetermined manner so that it may be subsequently folded into the finished product which may be utilized to stabilize an assembly of support columns which in turn are associated with said shelving system.

Abstract: A shelf apparatus includes at least one horizontal shelf and a plurality of hollow support means connected to said shelf by a compressible, expansible attaching means. According to the preferred embodiment the support means comprise bottles and the attaching means comprises a rubber-like plug which in its non-expanded state fits easily into the neck of the bottle. The plug is connected to the shelf by a bolt which passes through a hole in the shelf and also passes through a hole in the plug. An anchoring device such as a nut and washer combination is connected to the bolt just below the plug member. Rotation of the bolt causes the anchor device to pull up against the base of the rubber plug thereby causing it to expand against the inside of the neck of the bottle. The expanded rubber plug firmly connects the bottle support to the shelf above it. A variety of different devices can be constructed in this manner including ornamental shelving arrangements, bookcases, coffee tables, and like items.

Abstract: Pallets are supported in spaced relation above and upon one another to provide level tiers, to relieve cake lower tiers from the load of superior tiers, and to permit individual rotation of tiers to co-ordinate decorations.

Abstract: A pair of upper and lower tray members are molded of a rigid plastics material, and each tray member includes a peripherally extending rim portion from which depends a peripherally extending skirt portion. The corner portions of the tray members are rounded, and a set of correspondingly curved leg members support the corner portions of the tray members. The leg members are also molded of a plastics material, and each leg member includes a support portion which engages and supports the skirt portion of each tray member. Each leg member also has a set vertically spaced integral flange portions which project inwardly under the tray members, and the flange portions have openings for receiving corresponding bosses projecting downwardly from the underneath sides of the tray members. The flange portions are slightly flexible to provide for snap-fitting the leg members onto the tray members to produce a rigid and sturdy table assembly.

Abstract: A table having a plurality of legs receivable in sockets on the underside of a table top to place said table in an upright condition. The legs are removable from the sockets and storable within clips on the underside of the top to place the table in a knocked-down condition.

Abstract: A table leg supporting structure is formed by a pair of metallic side rail flange members mounted at right angles to each other on the underside of a table top and abutting each other to form a corner therebetween. A hollow tubular leg has a ninety degree sector of its sidewall removed in proximity to its upper end, and a ninety degree angle member welded therein. A machine screw passed through a hole drilled in the corner junction of the paired flange members is threaded into the angle member within the tubular leg. The foregoing abstract is not to be taken either as a complete exposition or as a limitation of the present invention, and in order to understand the full nature and extent of the technical disclosure of this application, reference must be had to the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings as well as to the claims.

Abstract: A knock-down shelving unit comprising a plurality of rectangular sheet metal shelves supported by vertical posts having a substantially rectangular cross-section, but in two adjacent corners being provided with groove-like deformations with spaced holes to secure the shelves in selected levels by means of screws. Each shelf has box-like flange portions in the adjoining open ends of which are inserted protecting plastics plates interconnected by a flexible central portion with a guide opening for a screw to be screwed through a mounting device extending obliquely between the two flange portions near the ends thereof.

Abstract: This invention provides an adjustable shelf device in which shelves are provided with notches defined by intersecting edges at their corners, and with elements extending across the notches to cooperate with the edges in defining openings. Extending through each of the openings is a support post being in the form of a structural angle, with its outer surfaces engaging the edges of the notch. A releasable friction member is in the opening for locking the support post and the shelf member together.

Abstract: A support for a slab or tray intended to be secured to an upright, such as a metallic leg of a table including at least two trays. The support has the general shape of a triangle of which the top of the corner adjacent to the leg has a suitable profile adapted to mate closely with part of the half-periphery of the leg, while each of the sides adjacent to the profile bears a substantially right-angled flange. The fixing of the support to the leg is effected either by welding or by screwing through a small plate fixed to said support. The invention is particularly apt for the construction of tea trolleys, occasional tables and television stands.

Abstract: A coupling piece formed as a cubical-shaped cup having a closed cup-bottom, which is disposed on a stud of a vertical member, and which cup is formed with a slot in at least one side wall thereof, the slot opening into the open front side thereof. A guide web of a peg member is inserted in the slot, the peg member being secured to one horizontal member and being provided with a bearing plate operatively cooperating with the cap.

Abstract: A twist lock connector for use in connecting and disconnecting components, such as knock-down furniture components, and being characterized by a construction which provides easy selective progressive friction locking and unlocking thereof to a selected degree by opposite relative right-hand or left-hand rotation of a correlated amount.

Abstract: A frame for supporting articles comprises a plurality of bars which have angularly bent longitudinal portions and make angles with each other, some of the longitudinal portions extending in contiguous relation and being locked together by locking means engaging the channels in the bars.

Abstract: In a connecting system for connecting a first hollow tubular member to a second member the first member is provided with a circumferentially-extending slot of a longitudinal extent sufficient to receive the second member therein, and the second member is provided with an arcuate slot of a width to receive the sidewall of the first member, the first member sidewall being engaged in the second member arcuate slot by rotation of the former about its longitudinal axis.