Patent ID: 6568873
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: E06B,Y10T

Abstract:
A connector for window spacer frame tubing, said connector comprising:an elongate connector body having first and second ends; and at least one stop member mounted to said connector body, said stop member comprising: an inclined ramp portion having a length that is greater than a width thereof, which extends outwardly from said connector body and which is mounted so as to be yieldingly depressible into said body in response to said first end of said body being inserted into a first section of spacer frame tubing; and a stop portion formed on an outer end of said ramp portion, said stop portion projecting from said connector body and facing towards said second end of said connector body so as to abut an end of a said second section of spacer frame tubing in response to said second end of said connector body being inserted therein; said stop portion being located proximate a mid-point of said connector body and said second end of said connector body being freely insertable in said spacer frame tubing up to said stop portion; so that said stop portion abuts said end of said second section of tubing so as to arrest insertion of said connector proximate said mid-point of said connector body, and said ramp portion is depressed into an interior of said first section of tubing so as to permit an end of said first section of tubing to be pressed into abutment against said end of said second section of tubing.