Sauder Woodworking Company

Titus International Limited

Steven R Munday

Richard A Nelson

Jerry D Grieser

William E Vallance

Myrl D Sauder

Michael D Lambright

Terry Wayne Armey

Brian D Fritch

Troy E Tedrow

Tsuang Lung Lin

A casket latch assembly has a strike plate attached to a casket lid. The strike plate has a strike plate edge and a strike plate surface. A flexible latch arm is attached to a casket lower shell. The latch arm has a latch edge for engaging the strike plate surface of the strike plate to hold the lid in a closed position. A release mechanism for disengaging the latch edge from the strike plate surface to allow the closed lid to open.

Casket latch assembly

A drawer slide having an adjustment device including a cam. The cam can be actuated to adjust the position of the drawer slide with respect to a drawer to which the drawer slide is attached.

Drawer slide having adjustment device

A joint forming device for forming a joint between two members, the device (10) comprising a tightening element (12) to be fitted to one member and a fastening element (14) having a longitudinal axis (34) to be fitted to the other member. The fastening element has at least one engaging surface (26) cooperably engageable with a respective arcuate camming surface (24) of the tightening element whereby rotation of the tightening element in one sense about an axis of rotation thereof causes axial movement of the fastening element towards the axis of rotation to cause a joint formed between the two members to tighten. The or each arcuate camming surface (24) is adapted such that the relation between the amount of rotation of the tightening element and the amount of axial movement it causes is substantially constant substantially throughout the range of axial movement of the tightening element. The device further comprises formations (84, 86) for resisting rotation of the tightening element about its axis of rotation at least in the sense opposite to the sense in which it is rotated to cause tightening of the joint.

Joint forming devices

A cabinet and door assembly including a cabinet having a horizontal member such as a top including a lower surface and at least one side wall. The assembly further includes at least one first door member pivotly mounted on at least one second door member. The second door member is pivotly mounted on the side wall of the cabinet. The first and second door members are moveable between closed and open positions. The assembly further includes a hinge assembly operatively connected to the lower surface and the first door member for guiding the first and second door members during movement between the closed and open positions.

Cabinet and door assembly

An elongate fastening element for a device for use in forming a joint between two members having at least one engaging surface cooperably engageable with a respective arcuate camming surface of a rotatable tightening element. In use, the fastening element is fitted to one of the joint members and the tightening element is fitted to the other joint member. Rotation of the tightening element about its axis of rotation causes axial movement of the fastening element towards that axis of rotation to cause a joint formed between the two members by means of the device to tighten. The or each engaging surface is provided on a leading end portion of the fastening element and has a profile configured such that engagement with the respective camming surface is at least a line contact occurring over substantially the entire length of the engaging surface.

A joint forming device for use in forming a joint between two members comprising an elongate fastening element, a tightening element having at least one arcuate camming surface for cooperably engaging an engaging portion of the fastening element and at least one housing for the fastening element and the tightening element with the or each camming surface and the engaging portion positioned for the cooperable engagement. The housing includes a first housing for housing the tightening element, a second housing for housing at least an expansion portion of the fastening element and at least one member connecting the first and second housings. The first housing and the second housing are adapted for cooperative engagement with the tightening element and the fastening element, respectively. In use, the first housing is fitted to a recess in one of the joint members and the second housing is fitted to a recess in the other the joint members to form a joint therebetween. Rotation of the tightening element in one sense about an axis of rotation thereof causes axial movement of the fastening element towards the axis of rotation causing the joint to tighten. The first housing and the second housing each expand generally radially outwardly during rotation of the tightening element for forceably engaging walls of their respective recesses.

A housing for a joint forming device for forming a joint between two members comprises a sleeve (22) for housing a camming element (24) of such a joint forming device. The sleeve (22) has at least one moveable portion (40,42) adapted to move outwardly of the outer periphery of the sleeve as indicated by the arrows (46) in response to movement of such a camming element housed therein during tightening of the joint for forceably engaging a wall of a recess in one of the members in which the sleeve is fitted.

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Stryker, OH, United States of America

Steven R Munday