Roper Corporation

Henry Znamirowski

David C Kromm

David J Roles

A rectangular metal cabinet of the panel type intended for sale and transport in a knocked-down condition for assembly with self-tapping screws penetrating the mated edges of the panels. The rear panel has flanges along its lateral edges and the side panels have flanges along their front edges, the flanges being of the box type to impart torsional rigidity at the four upright corners of the cabinet and to receive as well as shield and conceal the tips of the self-tapping screws. The cabinet has one or more rectangular shelves dimensioned to extend to the walls thereof, with the upright flanges being notched out at shelf level by an amount equal to the thickness dimension of the shelf to enable engagement between the edges of the shelf and the walls of the cabinet as well as support for the shelf in the vertical direction. The rear panel consists of left and right-hand sections which are symmetrical and of identical width having box type flanges at their central edges joined in abutting relation. Each of the doors has a flange of box type extending about the periphery to define a central panel. A reinforcing channel having integral wing portions is rigidly adhered to the panel. The wing portions are angled at a shallow angle to define holding spaces of sharply acute cross section containing a charge of adhesive. The structure is preferably fabricated by punching and bending of prefinished stock with avoidance of localized heating by spot welding or the like.

Metal cabinet for assembly by the user from knocked-down condition

A decorative drapery rod assembly including a hollow rod of rectangular section having longitudinal beads and supported upon spaced wall brackets. The rod is nestingly enclosed by a series of decorative plastic modules of channel shape arranged closely end to end, each module having a pair of C-shaped spring clips seated inside the front wall of the module. The spring clips have upper and lower arms for engaging upper and lower surfaces on the rod so that each module may be snapped into a captive forwardly facing position after the rod has been installed in its horizontal working position on the wall, with the modules being slideable endwise on the rod for centering of the series of modules with respect to the rod. In the preferred embodiment the upper arm of each spring clip has a shoulder for engaging one of the beads and a detent spaced therefrom for engaging the other, with the lower arm serving to press the rod relatively upwardly into engagement with the shoulder and detent. The detent is formed in two portions having different spacing with respect to the shoulder thereby to accommodate both the outer and inner sections of a telescoping rod. Modules are preferably furnished in different standard lengths with the end modules having provision for variable overhang, thereby to accommodate rods of any length having supporting brackets in any position. Each spring clip has a central opening which is telescoped over an integral pedestal in the module, the pedestal and opening both being non-circular so that a partial turn of the clip from a condition of register provides a self-threading connection for securely bottoming the clip in place in the module.

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Ellicott City, MD, United States of America

Henry Znamirowski