Multi-hooks bracket for cantileverly supporting office equipment

• US 5,022,621 A
• Filed: 05/09/1990
• Issued: 06/11/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomas A. Quest
• Original Assignee: Thomas A. Quest
• Inventors: Quest, Thomas A.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHOTKOWSKI, KAREN
• Application Number:
  US07/521,025
• Time in Patent Office: 398 Days
• Field of Search: 248/225.2, 248/243, 248/250, 248/221.2, 248/220.4, 248/222.1, 248/223.3, 211/187, 211/193, 108/106, 108/107, 108/108, 108/152, 108/144, 108/146
• US Class Current: 248/222.13
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 57/408 with a security device
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 57/42 the shelf supports being cantilever brackets

Abstract

Writing desks and other office equipment are commonly cantileverly supported upon arm-like multi-hooks brackets, the bracket being hookably attached within vertically spaced and vertically elongated apertures of an upright column. Inasmuch as a bracket hooked portion can only partially occupy the height of a column aperture, accidental upward bumping of the bracket can dislodge it from the upright column thus endangering the cantileverly supported office equipment. The multi-hooks bracket described herein is provided with a notchably serrated type lock that cooperates with a bracket hook to effectively together occupy the entire height of a column aperture, so that the bracket is made resistive to accidentally imparted upward forces. The multi-hooks bracket disclosed herein is preferably singularly constructed, and along distinctly different upright planes, of a laminar structural material, such construction providing an unusually strong and economical cantilever support for office equipment.

Claims

1. For a multi-hooks bracket adapted to hookably attach into vertically spaced and vertically elongated apertures of a multi-apertured column whereby the hookably attached bracket is adapted to cantileverly support office equipment, an improved multi-hooks bracket structure that is resistant to upward dislodgement from the multi-apertured column, said improved bracket structure comprising:

(A) a generally horizontally extending arm having a periphery comprising a substantially horizontally upper-edge adapted to support office equipment thereat and also comprising an upright rear-side;

(B) a plurality of vertically spaced hooks arrayed along an upright first-plane, each hook extending horizontally rearwardly and then downwardly from the arm rear-side whereby each hook is adapted to extend into and partially occupy the height of a vertically elongate aperture of a said multi-apertured column; and

(C) a horizontally elongate lock located along said first-plane and at the arm rear-side, said lock having an elevation between consecutive bracket hooks and being horizontally reciprocatably associated with said arm so as to move along the horizontal portion of a said consecutive hook toward the unoccupied height remainder of a said partially occupied column aperture, and said lock having an inclined notchably serrated rear-end contour adapted to removably securely plug-into said column aperture unoccupied height remainder to thereby prevent upward dislodgement of said bracket from a said multi-apertured column.

2. The improved multi-hooks bracket of claim 1 wherein the arm along the upper-edge and rear-side lies along said upright first-plane and is singularly constructed of laminar structural material;

wherein the central portion of said arm is singularly constructed of said same laminar structural material and lies along an upright second-plane that is directionally laterally offset from and substantially parallel to said first-plane; and

wherein said arm central portion is in slidable relationship to said lock.

3. The improved multi-hooks bracket of claim 1 wherein the number of notched serrations at the lock inclined rear-end is at least two and not more than six in number.

4. The improved multi-hooks bracket of claim 3 wherein the hooks and the arm along the upper-edge and the rear-side lie along said upright first-plane and are singularly constructed of laminar metallic structural material;

wherein the non-peripheral central portion of said arm is singularly constructed of said same laminar metallic structural material and lies along a second-plane that is directionally laterally offset from and substantially parallel to said first-plane; and

wherein the lock is in horizontally slidable relationship with said arm central portion.