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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1998
Dana Bryson Waits, Emerson, GA (US);
Shaw Industries, Inc., Dalton, GA (US);
Abstract
A furniture panel stabilizer, having a first lifting member moveably interlocked with a second lifting member, for preventing relative vertical movement between two adjoining furniture panels forming a corner. The first lifting member has a first end, an opposite second end, a top end, an opposite bottom end, and a first longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end. The second lifting member has a forward end, an opposite back end, an upper end, an opposite lower end, and a second longitudinal axis extending between the forward end and the back end. The first lifting member further has at least one first aperture and forms at least two longitudinally extending first rails and the second lifting member further has at least one second aperture and forms at least two longitudinally extending second rails, so that the first and second lifting members are movably interlocked when each first aperture circumscribes one second rail of the second lifting member so that the circumscribed second rail is slidably disposed within the first aperture. Hooks or wedges are fixedly attached to the respective first end of the first lifting member and the forward end of the second lifting member for detachably connecting the first and second lifting members to the slotted track of a first and second modular furniture panel so that, when the first and second lifting members are connected to the respective furniture panels, the furniture panel stabilizer prevents relative vertical movement between the two furniture panels.