Patent ID: 6418696
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
A jig for assembling solid surface material (SSM) cove molding to SSM wall sheets, said cove molding being laterally bounded by longitudinal rabbet channels, having mutually perpendicular abutment edges and lap plates, said jig comprising:a table surface for supporting an SSM wall sheet with an inside surface in juxtaposition with said table surface and an outside surface of said wall sheet facing away from said table surface; a depression below said table surface adapted to receive a rabbet channel lap plate of the cove molding beneath an inside surface of said wall sheet; a fence structure projected from said table surface and substantially rigid therewith; and a fence cap integral with said fence structure and projecting rigidly from said fence structure over said table surface, a comer of said fence structure and fence cap forming an edge abutment pocket whereby an assembly force is adapted to be applied to an outside surface of a sheet supported by said table surface to compress an edge of such sheet into a contiguous rabbet channel abutment edge reacts to trust a lap plate edge respective to the other rabbet channel into said edge abutment pocket.