Bed locking insert plates

• US 4,068,332 A
• Filed: 11/15/1976
• Issued: 01/17/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Armstrong Cork Company
• Original Assignee: Armstrong Cork Company
• Inventors: Turner, Roy J., Nance, Glenn S., Ball, Kirby L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kundrat, Andrew V.
• Application Number:
  US05/741,778
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: 5/295, 5/296, 5/294, 5/297, 403/187, 403/230, 403/263
• US Class Current: 5/296
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/005 dismountable
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/021 Bedstead frames
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/20 Connections with hook-like parts gripping behind a blind side of an element to be connected
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/503 the flange being separate from the elements to be connected
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 7/22 using hooks or like elements
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 9/052 the intermediate member having a radial flange secured to the flat surface
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 9/058 the intermediate member being secured to the rod by transverse fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/46 Rod end to transverse side of member

Abstract

A connecting device is provided for fastening together two elements. Bed post insertion plates are mounted to a bed post for the purpose of supporting bed rails. The bed rails contain hook structures which mount on spaced pins in the bed post insertion plates. The structure interlocks bed rails with a bed post.

Claims

1. A connecting device consisting of two interconnecting members, the first interconnecting member being a plate having on its one edge two L-shaped hooks spaced one above the other in the same plane with both hooks having their openings facing in the same direction, the second interconnecting member being two parallel plates spaced apart a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the plane of the first-mentioned plate having the L-shaped hooks, pin means spanning the space between said parallel plates and flush with the exterior surface of each plate to provide engagement points for the L-shaped hooks, said L-shaped hooks engaging said pin means and said pin means passing through the openings of the L-shaped hooks and providing a resting point for said hooks, said parallel plates having right angle flanges formed with mounting means for mounting said parallel plates in position, said parallel plates are separate plates fixed at one end to the flanges which are formed from a single plate with an elongated slot therein having closed ends to permit said L-shaped hooks to pass therethrough to engage said pin means, and said parallel plates having opposite free ends, and with said fixed ends secured contiguous with the respective edges of said elongated slot along the length thereof and terminating at the ends of said elongated slot so as to be overlapped by the ends of said single plate with the ends of said single plate extending beyond the ends of said parallel plates said plate with the L-shaped hooks being fastened to the side rails of a bed, and said parallel plates are embedded in the post of the headboard of the bed.