Patent ID: 7537409

Claim:
Locking arrangement for fixing two items of furniture to one another, by connecting two side walls in each of which a locking device can be fitted, the locking arrangement comprising two locking devices, the two locking devices being designed to be structurally and functionally identical, each locking device having a cup-shaped fixed part, a cutout being formed in an associated enclosed bottom of the cup-shaped fixed part which is perpendicular to a central axis which passes axially through the fixed part, the cutout comprising cutout sections extending radially outwards from the central axis, at least two radially outwardly extending cutout sections being arranged at regular angular sections to one another emanate from the central axis of the fixed part, and a rotating part acting as an adjusting member being provided in the interior of the cup-shaped fixed part, the rotating part comprising an actuating part having a locking element situated axially offset in the direction of the bottom of the fixed part, the locking element having a configuration comprising a plurality of radially outwardly projecting locking arms so that the locking element thus formed can be guided axially through the cutout, and in order to effect locking, two locking devices facing one another by way of their bottom region can be fixed to one another by pressing in the adjusting member or rotating part of one locking device against a biasing force, axially inward towards the bottom of the fixed part of the one locking device, so that the associated locking element can be guided through the cutout in the bottom of its own locking device and through the corresponding cutout in the bottom of the adjacent, other locking device and, by a subsequent twisting movement, can be latched behind locking projections formed between the cutout sections and belonging to the bottom of the other locking device to lock together the bottoms of the fixed parts of the two locking devices.