D-type screwing assembly for furniture

• US 9,080,586 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2012
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jie Liu, Lei Cao, Min-Sheng Liu
• Original Assignee: Jie Liu, Lei Cao, Min-Sheng Liu
• Inventors: Liu, Min-Sheng, Cao, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): KENNEDY, JOSHUA T
• Application Number:
  US13/681,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20140140758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: 411/403, 403/205, 403/231, 403/DIG.10, 403/DIG.12, 403/DIG.13
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 12/00 Jointing of furniture or the like, e.g. hidden from exterior F16B2/00 - F16B11/00 take precedence; fastening means per se F16B13/00 - F16B47/00; wood-working B27
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 12/14 using threaded bolts or screws
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 23/0069 with holes to be engaged with corresponding pins on the tool or protruding pins to be engaged with corresponding holes on the tool

Abstract

A D-type screwing assembly for furniture contains a retaining member including a hole defined in the retaining member, with a plurality of ribs defined on two sides of the retaining member, and with a slot formed on a top end of the retaining member. A screw member includes at least two orifices defined on a head end of the screw member and a thread section formed on the screw member to screw with the hole of the retaining member. A rotary member includes at least two posts extending outwardly from a front end of the rotary member, with a number of the at least two posts corresponding to that of the at least two orifices of the screw member, so that the at least two posts of the rotary member are fitted into the at least two orifices of the screw member correspondingly.

Claims

1. A screwing assembly for furniture comprising:

a retaining member including an outer wall and a fastener defined in the retaining member, with the outer wall having generally circular cross sections having an axis, with a plurality of ribs defined on the retaining member, and with each of the plurality of ribs being arcuate about the axis, with the plurality of ribs being axially spaced along the axis, wherein a slot is formed on the retaining member;

a screw member including three orifices defined on a head end of the screw member and a thread section formed on the screw member to screw with the fastener of the retaining member; and

a rotary member including first, second and third posts extending outwardly from a front end of the rotary member, with the second post being intermediate and spaced from the first and third posts along a diametric line, wherein the first, second and third posts of the rotary member are fitted into the three orifices of the screw member correspondingly, with widths of the first, second and third posts perpendicular to the diametric line and parallel to the front end of the rotary member being equal;

wherein the second post is a polygonal column and the first and third posts are circular columns.

2. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second post has cross sections larger than cross sections of the first and second posts parallel to the cross sections of the second post.

3. A screwing assembly for furniture comprising:

a retaining member including an outer wall and a fastener defined in the retaining member, with the outer wall having generally circular cross sections having an axis, with a plurality of ribs defined on the retaining member, and with each of the plurality of ribs being arcuate about the axis, with the plurality of ribs being axially spaced along the axis, wherein a slot is formed on the retaining member;

a screw member including three orifices defined on a head end of the screw member and a thread section formed on the screw member to screw with the fastener of the retaining member; and

a rotary member including first, second and third posts extending outwardly from a front end of the rotary member, with the second post being intermediate and spaced from the first and third posts along a diametric line, wherein the first, second and third posts of the rotary member are fitted into the three orifices of the screw member correspondingly, with widths of the first, second and third posts perpendicular to the diametric line and parallel to the front end of the rotary member being equal;

wherein lengths of the first and third posts parallel to the diametric line and to the front end of the rotary member are equal, and wherein a length of the second post parallel to the diametric line and to the front end of the rotary member is greater than the lengths of the first and third posts.

4. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein a shape of each post of the rotary member is selected from a polygonal column and a circular column.

5. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein a shape of each orifice of the screw member corresponds to that of each post.

6. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fastener extends generally perpendicular to the axis, and with the slot extending radially relative to the axis.

7. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 6, wherein the slot extends parallel to the fastener.

8. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 7, wherein the plurality of ribs are circumferentially spaced.

9. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second post is a polygonal column and the first and third posts are circular columns.

10. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second post has cross sections larger than cross sections of the first and second posts parallel to the cross sections of the second post.

11. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fastener comprises a hole extending through the retaining member.

12. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fastener comprises a threaded extension extending radially from the outer wall.

13. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fastener comprises a hole extending in the retaining member parallel to the axis.

14. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 13, wherein the slot extends radially relative to the axis.

15. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second post is a polygonal column and the first and third posts are circular columns.

16. The screwing assembly for furniture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second post has cross sections larger than cross sections of the first and second posts parallel to the cross sections of the second post.