Patent ID: 6820758
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: A47B,Y10T

Abstract:
A locking connector for a knock-down storage rack having a plurality of horizontally spaced uprights and vertically spaced shelf-supporting beams, said uprights having a plurality of vertically spaced openings formed therein, said locking connector including: means for interconnecting said locking connector and one said beam; a plunger having a shank in which a recess is formed, said plunger being slidable between a locking position in which said shank is within one of said openings with resulting locking of said upright to said locking connector and an unlocking position in which said shank is outside said one opening; and a retainer biased by resilient means into said recess when said plunger is in said locking position and preventing movement of said plunger from said locking position unless a force, opposed to the bias of said retainer, is applied to said plunger to cause said retainer to withdraw from said recess.