Resilient strip and mounting member for flush fitting protective strip assembly

Abstract

The invention features an elongated strip of resilient material, which strip is secured in and partially surrounds a mounting member, where the resilient strip member has a semi-cylindrical body with a pair of circumferentially facing edge portions. The resilient strip also includes a pair of oppositely disposed, radially-inwardly extending solid, wedge shaped latch members, each extending longitudinally of the latch member and located between one of the edge portions and a point 45 degrees away from the mid-line of the semi-cylindrical body. The mounting member includes a web portion having a pair of oppositely disposed web-latch extensions extending across a chord of the semi-cylindrical body, substantially parallel to a tangent to the circumference of the semi-cylindrical body at its mid-line, and at least one leg member extending from the web portion away from the semi-cylindrical body. A pair of oppositely disposed base members, each extend from a leg member, away from each other and each terminate in a base latch portion. Each of the pair of web latch extensions mates with the semi-cylindrical body adjacent the solid radial latch member, between the latch member and the mid-line of the semi-cylindrical body and each of the pair of base latch portions mates with the semi-cylindrical body adjacent the radial latch member, between the latch member and the closest edge portion.

Description

This is a to protect the walls and corridors from impact due to moving carriages, around checkout counters in grocery and department stores, around island displays in department stores and upon the ends of display cases. The strips protect not only the surface upon which they are mounted, but also objects and persons that may contact those surfaces.

The foregoing description should be taken as illustrative and not limiting in any sense. Other embodiments of the invention will occur to those skilled in the art and are within the scope of the following claims.

Claims

1. An elongated protective strip of resilient material to be secured in and partially surrounding a mounting member, said resilient strip comprising:

(a) a body partially surrounding the mounting member and having a pair of edge portions; and

(b) a pair of oppositely disposed, inwardly extending solid latch members, each terminating in a hook having an opening on the side of the latch member facing away from the mid-line of the body and each latch member located between a point 45 degrees away from the mid-line of the body and another point 90 degrees away from the mid-line, in the same direction.

2. The protective strip of claim 1 said extending latch member comprising an elongated wedge extending in the direction of elongation of the strip.

3. The protective strip of claim 2 said body having a substantially uniform wall thickness around its perimeter and along its length.

4. A protective strip assembly comprising, in combination, a mounting member and an elongated strip of resilient material secured in and partially surrounding the mounting member;

(a) The resilient strip comprising:

(1) a body having an outer surface partially surrounding the mounting member and having a pair of edge portions; and

(2) a pair of oppositely disposed, inwardly extending solid latch members, each terminating in a hook having an opening on the side of the latch member facing away from the mid-line of the body and each latch member located between a point 45 degrees away from the mid-line of the body and another point 90 degrees away from the mid-line, in the same direction; and

(b) The mounting member comprising:

(1) a web portion having a pair of oppositely disposed web latch extensions extending generally across a chord of the body;

(2) at least one leg member extending from the web portion away from the body;

(3) a pair of oppositely disposed base members:

(i) each extending from a leg member, away from each other;

(ii) each terminating in a base latch portion; wherein each of the pair of web latch extensions mates with the body adjacent extending latch member between the extending latch member and the mid-line of the body, and each of the pair of base latch portions mates with the body adjacent the extending latch member between the extending latch member and the closest end portion.

5. The protective strip assembly of claim 4, said body having a substantially uniform wall thickness around its perimeter and along its length.

6. The protective strip assembly of claim 5, said base latch portions terminating in a hook.

7. The strip assembly of claim 4 where the mounting member comprises an elongated channel and the web portion, web latch extensions, leg members, base members and base latch extensions extend along the channel in the direction of its elongation.

8. The strip assembly of claim 7 wherein the web latch extensions are defined by beads which extend along the web portion in the direction of channel elongation.

9. The strip assembly of claim 7 where the base latch portions are defined by beads which extend along the base members in the direction of channel elongation.

10. The protective strip assembly of claim 4 where the radially extending latch member comprises an elongated wedge extending in the direction of elongation of the strip.

11. The protective strip of claim 3, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 12. The protective strip of claim 2, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 13. The protective strip of claim 1, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 14. The protective strip assembly of claim 6, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 15. The protective strip assembly of claim 5, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 16. The protective strip assembly of claim 8, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 17. The protective strip assembly of claim 9, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 18. The protective strip assembly of claim 7, wherein the strip is a resilient strip. 19. The protective strip assembly of claim 10, wherein the

strip is a resilient strip. 20. The protective strip assembly of claim 4, wherein the strip is a resilient strip.