Patent ID: 6419209
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: E04F

Abstract:
A railing system including a railing support assembly for mounting a vertical glass panel above a floor surface, the panel having a peripheral edge and opposed planar side faces, said railing system comprising:an elongated base; an elongated support channel defined in said base; said base including a pair of side walls and an end wall defining a generally U-shaped cross section of said channel, said channel having an open mouth; a wedge member adapted to be mounted at a bottom edge of the panel, said wedge member having a base portion flanked by a pair of leg portions flexibly connected to said base portion, said leg portions defining a glass panel receiving pocket; said channel having a tapered channel shape and said wedge member having a mating tapered wedge shape; said open mouth of said channel being the widest part of said tapered channel shape; said base portion of said wedge member being the narrowest part of said tapered wedge shape; said wedge member being received into said channel, said leg portions of said wedge member contacting said side walls of said channel, said leg portions being flexed into said pocket by said side walls to provide a glass panel retention force; a support shoe; an attachment structure adapted to attach said support shoe to the floor surface; and a support structure securing said base to said support shoe; said support structure including a first socket in said shoe and a first projection on said base received in said socket.