Patent ID: 7717279
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A47B,A47F

Abstract:
1. A slatwall track comprising, in combination, an integral body structure formed with a uniform thickness throughout the whole of its structure and having a front and a back side; an upwardly extending horizontal protrusion adapted for an intermeshing with another slatwall track situated above it, said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion being retracted from said front side at a distance equal with said uniform thickness; a rearward extending horizontal wall starting from a bottom of said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion, said rearward extending horizontal wall and said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion defining a first step-shaped rabbet ending at said back side, followed by a vertical wall horizontally extending as part of said back side and, then, continued at its bottom by a first forwardly extending horizontal segmental wall; a first channel, generally of rectangular shape, with an opening in said front side formed by said rearward extending horizontal wall, said vertical wall horizontally extending as part of said back side and said first forwardly extending horizontal segmental wall; a first U-shaped channel expanding downwardly from said first channel and retracted from said back side via said first forwardly extending horizontal segmental wall and having an external leg coplanar with said front side; said first channel and said first U-shaped channel each having a length commensurate with a whole length of said slatwall track; a closed box section extending downwardly from said first U-shaped channel and defined by a frontal wall stretching down from said external leg and coincidental with a portion of said front side, by a rear wall, coincidental with a portion of said back side and continued at its top by a second forwardly extending horizontal segmental wall and at its bottom by a forwardly extending horizontal wall; a second channel extending into a second U-shaped channel being located beneath said closed box section, which is then followed downwardly by another closed box, followed by; a third channel extending into a third U-shaped channel; a limiting horizontally wall, located beneath said third U-shaped channel, and incorporating a second forwardly extending horizontal segmental wall and a bottom of said third U-shaped channel, said limiting horizontally wall stretching from said front side and reaching a back plane coplanar with an exterior surface of said back side; a downwardly extending horizontal protrusion, located beneath said limiting horizontally wall, is adapted for intermeshing with another slatwall track situated beneath it; and a rearward projecting tongue horizontally extending and perpendicular to said downwardly extending horizontal protrusion, said rearward projecting tongue and said downwardly extending horizontal protrusion defining a second step-shaped rabbet which is adapted to stop said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion of a lower-contiguous slatwall track after said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion of said lower-contiguous slatwall track frictionally engages said downwardly extending horizontal protrusion; a length of said rearward projecting tongue being conveniently chosen that a panel having a specific thickness is adapted to be inserted between an outside end of said rearward projecting tongue and a wall coplanar with said back plane; correspondingly, said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion being adapted to frictionally engage a downwardly extending horizontal protrusion of an upper contiguous slatwall track until said rearward projecting tongue of said upper contiguous slatwall track and, thus, is stopped by a top end of said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion; thus, a distance between said upwardly extending horizontal protrusion and a back plane coplanar with said back side being conveniently chosen to be adapted for insertion of a said panel having a specific thickness, whereby said first, second and third channels together with said first, second and third U-shaped channels adapted to receive and capture supporting features; and said vertical wall, being slightly bent along its horizontally extending midline, thereby defining an indentation for guiding fastening means during mounting of said slatwall track.