Claims
- 1. An improved bracket for securing a desired accessory to an upright accessory standard, said standard being located in a space between opposed ends of a pair of modular wall panels and having a substantially flat elongated body portion and having a multiplicity of identical, spatially positioned upwardly-projected L-shaped hook-receiving members located on either side thereof and defining a plurality of apertures therebetween, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- a flat mounting plate having a top and a bottom;
- a flat hook plate made integral with the mounting plate, said hook plate being disposed at a substantially right angle to the mounting plate and having a plurality of identical spatially positioned downwardly projecting L-shaped hook members for detachable engagement with one or more upwardly-projecting L-shaped hook-receiving members of said accessory standard;
- a flat locking member comprised of a substantially rectangular body portion having a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end of the rectangular body portion being rotatably mounted at a topmost portion on a single side of said hook plate in close proximity to a topmost hook member thereof, the distal end being substantially straight;
- a protrusion integrally formed with a portion of the distal end of the rectangular body portion, an inner edge of said protrusion and a portion of the distal end of the rectangular body portion forming an abutting surface;
- said locking member having a width which is not substantially wider than a width of said hook plate such that both may fit into an aperture between a pair of hook-receiving members in the space between the opposed pair of modular walls;
- said substantially rectangular body portion having a length defined between said proximate end and said distal end which is sized whereby, when the downwardly projecting hook members of said hook plate are detachably engaged with upwardly-projecting L-shaped hook-receiving members of said accessory standard, said abutting surface may be pivoted toward and into an aperture in which a topmost hook member is engaged and abut along both bottom and outer portions of an L-shaped hook-receiving member immediately above said aperture to inhibit removal of said mounting plate from said accessory standard.
- 2. The improved bracket of claim 1 further comprising a fastening means for rotatably mounting said locking member to said hook plate.
- 3. The improved bracket of claim 2 wherein said fastening means comprises a rivet.
- 4. The improved bracket of claim 1 wherein said mounting plate, said hook plate, and said locking member are comprised of a metal alloy.
- 5. A bracket for securing an accessory to a standard having a plurality of upwardly-projecting hook-receiving members that are located in a space between opposed ends of a pair of modular walls, said bracket comprising:
- a flat mounting plate;
- a flat hook plate made integral with the mounting plate and having at least one L-shaped hook member extending from a topmost portion of the hook plate, said L-shaped hook member detachably engaging an aperture formed between two of said hook-receiving members of said standard;
- a flat locking member having a substantially rectangular body portion with a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end of the rectangular body portion being rotatably attached to the topmost portion on a single side of said hook plate and in close proximity to said L-shaped hook member extending therefrom;
- a protrusion integrally formed with a portion of the distal end of the rectangular body portion, an inner edge of said protrusion and a portion of said distal end of the rectangular body portion forming an abutting surface;
- said locking member having a width which is not substantially wider than a width of said hook plate such that both may fit into an aperture between a pair of hook-receiving members in the space between the opposed pair of modular walls;
- said substantially rectangular body portion having a length defined between said proximate end and said distal end which is sized whereby, when said L-shaped hook member is engaged with a particular aperture, said abutting surface may be rotated into said aperture against an L-shaped hook-receiving member immediately above said aperture, to inhibit inadvertent disengagement of said L-shaped hook member from said particular aperture.
- 6. The bracket of claim 5 wherein the hook plate extends from said mounting plate at substantially a right angle.
- 7. An improved bracket for mounting to an upright accessory standard, said standard having a plurality of identical upwardly-projecting hook-receiving members that define a plurality of apertures therebetween and that are located in a space between opposed ends of a pair of modular walls, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- a flat hook plate having at least one downwardly-projecting hook member for detachable engagement with a first upwardly-projecting hook-receiving member of the accessory standard; and
- a flat locking member having a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end being rotatably mounted near a topmost portion on a single side of said hook plate, said distal end having an abutting surface complementarily shaped with lower, outer edges of hook-receiving members of said accessory standard;
- said locking member having a width which is not substantially wider than a width of said hook plate such that both may fit into an aperture between a pair of hook-receiving members in the space between the opposed pair of modular walls;
- said locking member being sized and positioned whereby, when the downwardly-projecting hook member of the hook plate is detachably engaged with a first upwardly-projecting hook-receiving member of the accessory standard, the abutting surface of the locking member fits within the space between the modular walls and abuts the lower outer edge of a second upwardly-projecting hook-receiving member positioned immediately above said first hook-receiving member.
- 8. The improved bracket of claim 7, wherein the lower, outer edge of the upwardly-projecting hook-receiving members of the accessory are generally curved and the abutting surface of the locking member is generally curved.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 598,252, filed on Oct. 16, 1990, for a LOCKING WALL ACCESSORY FASTENER, now abandoned.
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