Patent ID: 8122654

Claim:
A glass locking system of locking a glass panel within a base shoe having side walls, comprising: a first laterally tapered plate having a first end and a second end, the first plate being laterally tapered from the second end to the first end, the first end being thinner than the second end; a second laterally tapered plate having a first end and a second end, the second plate being laterally tapered from the second end to the first end, the first end being thinner than the second end; the first and second plates being positionable in overlapping relation with opposing taper directions between a first one of the side walls of the base shoe and the glass panel, the plates being laterally movable in relation to one another and impinging upon one another generating a compressive force on the glass panel between one side of one of said plates and a second one of the side walls of the base shoe.