Patent ID: 6186698
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
A combination of a construction member with a connecting element having an end face; said construction member being provided with a groove having opposite side wall portions; said connecting element, as viewed longitudinally, being formed as a rail section and including at least two elastic legs cooperating as a pair having a free outer end; said legs being bendable to one another into a compressed condition; said legs each having an outer side; in a relaxed, uninstalled state the outer sides of said legs being mutually divergent towards said free outer end, and in an installed state said legs of said pair being received in said groove in said compressed condition such that said outer sides of said legs are mutually divergent towards said free outer end, whereby said outer sides of said legs resiliently engage said side wall portions of said groove for holding said connecting element in said groove by friction; said legs together defining a channel of said connecting element; further comprising blocking means inserted between the elastic legs into said channel for preventing movement of the elastic legs towards one another; and a cover plate affixed to said blocking means and covering said end face.