SUPPORTING FEET FOR PANELS AND THE LIKE

• US 3,718,306 A
• Filed: 10/22/1970
• Issued: 02/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Murray I. Gillis
• Original Assignee: Murray I. Gillis
• Inventors: Murray, I. Gillis
• Primary Examiner(s): Schultz, William H.
• Application Number:
  US05/083,145
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: 248/48,150,151,165,188,188.7,188.8,460 160/24,35,135,350 40/125H
• US Class Current: 248/188.8
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 91/00 Feet for furniture in general castors B60B33/00
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7422 with separate framed panels without intermediary support posts

Abstract

Supporting feet for panels and the like which comprise a pair of elongated members, each formed at one end thereof with means engaging a horizontally extending pin extending between a pair of flanges secured to the undersurface of a vertically extending structure for supporting the same in proper upright position.

Claims

1. Supporting feet for a panel comprising a pair of elongated members, one of said elongateD members formed with a pair of spaced hook portions whereas said other elongated member formed with a single hook portion, floor-engaging surfaces at the opposite end of said elongated members, said feet members each provided at the hook end thereof with horizontally extending flat surfaces adapted to engage with the undersurface of a bracket secured to the undersurface of said panel members said spaced hook portions on one of said elongated member engaging with a pin member on said bracket with the single hook portion of the other of said elongated member extending therebetween and also in engagement with said pin member, one of said supporting feet extending forwardly of said panel and the other of said supporting feet extending rearwardly of said panel to retain the said panel in upright vertical position.

2. The structure recited in claim 1 wherein said supporting feet are removably mounted on said panel.

3. The structure recited in claim 1 wherein casters are mounted on the said floor-engaging surface on said pair of elongated members.

4. In combination, a bracket and supporting feet for retaining a panel in an upright vertical position, said bracket adapted to be secured to the undersurface of a panel and including a pair of depending wall sections, a pin extending between said depending wall sections, said supporting feet comprising a pair of elongated members, one of said elongated members formed at one end thereof with a pair of spaced hook portions whereas said other elongated member is formed with a single hook portion, flat horizontally extending floor-engaging surfaces at the opposite ends of said elongated members, a horizontally extending flat surface formed on each of said elongated members for engagement with a flat surface on said bracket when the said spaced hook portions of one elongated member engages with the said pin and the single hook portion of the other of said elongated member engages with the said pin, intermediate the said spaced hook portions for supporting the said panel in an upright vertical position;

said bracket being further provided with floor engaging surfaces for supporting said panel when said supporting feet are not used in conjunction therewith for the same purpose.

5. The structure recited in claim 4 wherein said floor-engaging ends of said elongated members are each provided with caster means for facilitating the movement of said supported panel from one place to another.

6. The structure recited in claim 4 wherein said bracket is provided with removable floor-engaging supporting means.

7. The structure recited in claim 5 wherein said supporting feet are removably secured to said pin extending between the said depending wall sections on said bracket.