Patent ID: 6146046
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: A47B,Y10T

Abstract:
A multidirectional connecting device for assembling and interlocking pieces of furniture of the type used in modulable open-plan offices, which includes horizontal working surfaces, sub-frames and panels or vertical components adapted to be fitted together according to multiple configurations, comprising a central plate having at least one horizontal flat surface situated under at least one working surface of a horizontal panel, said central plate being provided with vertical faces, a pair of pegs extending from one vertical face, the device being situated in the vicinity of an angle of the at least one working surface wherein one of said pegs is in the form of a beam having a prismatic configuration for cooperating with a section fitting into said beam and the other of said pegs being adapted to cooperate with other supporting components of the at least one working surface, and at least one arm extending from the other vertical face of said central plate and ending in a raised plate designed to support at least one vertical component.