CA1183318A - Connector for wall mouldings - Google Patents

Connector for wall mouldings

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CA1183318A
CA1183318A CA000422756A CA422756A CA1183318A CA 1183318 A CA1183318 A CA 1183318A CA 000422756 A CA000422756 A CA 000422756A CA 422756 A CA422756 A CA 422756A CA 1183318 A CA1183318 A CA 1183318A
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mouldings
wall
moulding
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Edgar P. Legras
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LEGRAS EDGAR P
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04FFINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F19/00Other details of constructional parts for finishing work on buildings
    • E04F19/02Borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves
    • E04F19/04Borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves for use between floor or ceiling and wall, e.g. skirtings
    • E04F19/0436Borders; Finishing strips, e.g. beadings; Light coves for use between floor or ceiling and wall, e.g. skirtings between ceiling and wall

Abstract

CONNECTOR FOR WALL MOULDINGS

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
Wall mouldings used to provide junctions bet-ween the walls and ceiling or between the walls and floor and between walls and the next adjacent wall are connected at a junction between three such mouldings arranged mutually at right angles by a connector comprising a cover plate having three arms shaped to cooperate with the respective wall moulding and including a pair of tines for clipping the arm to the respective moulding. The connector can be provided in different shapes to accommo-date 90° or 270° junctions that is manufactured from sheet material.

Description

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CONNECTOR FOR WALL MOULDINGS

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This inve-ntion relates to wall mouldings of the type which are used to finish the junction between the walls and the ceiling or between the walls and the floor or between adjacent walls.
It is well known to apply wall mouldings of various materials at these junctions to provide a simple and inexpensive means of finishing the junction. Such mouldings provide a pleasing appearance and can be very simply attached by various conventional methods.
However, difficulty occurs at the junctions bet-ween adjacent such mouldings because junctions generally occur at a corner where three wall mouldings come toge-ther at right angles or substantially at right angles.
This necessitates skilled mitering of the ends of the wall mouldings so as to provide a junction which is profession-al in appearance and pleasing to the eye. The mitering is a skilled and laborious task effectively preventing un-skilled persons or amateurs from completing the task in areasonably professional way.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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to provide a connector which can be used to provide a junction for the wall mould:ings and which can be applied without the necessity for mitering the ends of the wall mouldings and can be applied simply and readily without skilled workmanship.
The invention therefore provides according to a first aspect, a method o:E joining three wall mouldings arranged mutually at right angles comprising fixing each of the mouldings to respective walls such that they ter-minate adjacent a junction and extend therefrom mutuallyat right angles~ covering the junction with a cover mem-~er having three arms with each arm extending along a part of a respective one of the wall mouldings and clip-ping the cover member to each of the mouldings by clip means extending around the respective moulding.
According to a second aspect, the invention provides a connector for wall mouldings affixed to walls such that the mouldings terminate adjacent the junction and extend therefrom mutually at right ang:Les comprisl.ng a cover member having three arms and arranged to cover the junction with each arm extending along and covering a part of a respective one of the wall mouldings and three clip means each associated with respective arm and arran-ged such that the clip means extends around the respective 33~3 moulding to clip the connector thereto.
According to a t~ird aspect, the invention provides a combination comprising a plurality of wall mouldings which can be affixed to respective walls such that the mouldings terminate adjacent the junction and extend therefrom mutually at right angles and a cover mem-ber having three arms and arranged to cover the junction with each arm extending along and covering a part of a respective one of the wall mouldings and three clip means each associated with a respective arm and arranged such that the clip means extend around the respective moulding to clip the connector thereto.
It is one advantage of the invention therefore that the wall mouldings can be cut to a length without the necessity for great accuracy since they can terminate at any position which ls beneath the connector and is not so long that tne mouldings overlap.
It is a further advantage of the invention that the connector can be applied very simply and quickly without the necessity for skilled workmanship.
It is a yet further advantage of the inven-tion that the connector can be shaped to provide a pleas-ing ornamental appearance.
It is a still further advantage of the inven-.i 33~

tion that the connector can comprise merely a sheet mate-rial which can be manufactured readily by moulding or pressing and hence can be manufactured inexpensively and in substantial quantities.
It is a yet further advantage of the inven-tion that the shape of the arms can closely follow the outer shape of the moulding whether it is convex or con-cave.
With the foregoing in view, and other advan-tages as will become apparent to those skilled in theart to which this invention relates as this speci~ica-tion proceeds, the invention is herein described by re-ference to the accompanying drawings forming a part here-of, which includes a description of the best mode known to the appli.cant and of the preferred typical embodiment of the principles of the present invention, in which:
DESCRIPTION OF T~E DRAWINGS
Figure 1 is an isometric view of three wall mouldings arranged mutually at right angles with two of the mouldings arranged at a junction between a wall and the ceiling and the third arranged vertically at the junc-tion between two walls arranged at an angle of 270 and including a connector between the wall mouldings.
Figure 2 is a view similar to that of Figure 1 3~

wherein the walls are arranged at an angLe of 90.
Fîgure 3 ls a view similar to that of Figures 1 and 2 wherein the angle between each of the walls and its next adjacent wall is 270.
Figure 4 is a side view of the connector of Figure 3 separated from the wall mouldings and showing the clips by which it is attached to the wall mouldings.
In the drawings like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the difEerent figures.
DETAILED DESCRIPTI0~1 Figures 1, 2 and 3 show different arrangements of the invention. In each of the figures there is pro-vided three wall mouldings arranged at the corner of a rectangular room or body so that each or the mouldings lies alon~ the junction between two sides. The junction can either be between a wall and the ceiling or between the wall and the floor or between the wall and the next adjacent wall.
It will be appreciated that the angle between the wall and the ceiling is 90 and similarly the junc-tion between the wall and the floor is 90. The junction between a wall and the next adjacent wall can either be 90 or can be 270 , depending upon whether the corner is an internal corner or an external corner. In addition, 3~

the mouldin~s can be used with an arrangement where each of the walls lies at 270 to the next adjacent ~all where-by each of the junctions is an external junction rather than an internal junction.
Generally, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, the moulding between the wall and the celling, that is at an internal junction, has two sides at right angles so as to lie adjacent the ceiling and the wall respectively.
The third side extending across from the ceiling to the wall is generally concave so as to provide a substantially triangular structure with the longest side concave.
In Figure 2, all of the mouldings are of this shape and are formed from the same extrusion or Erom tim-ber planed to the same shape. In Figure 1, two of the mouldings are of this shape and the third is an external moulding which provides two sides mutually at right an-gles so as to lie adjacent the walls and an external sur-face which is convex and extends substantially in a cir-cle from one wall around to the adjacent wall.
In Figure 3, all three mouldings are of the external shape similar to the single external moulding of Figure 1.
As shown in dotted line, each of the wall mouldi,ngs terminates closely adjacent the junction but 33~3 mutually spaced so as to avoid any overlap. The actual spacing can of course vary between slight contact ancl a spacing which allows the connector to cover the end oE
the respective moulding. In installation of the mould-ings, the mouldings are firstly cut roughly to length as shown and then are fixed to the surfaces by suitable conventional means.
The connector comprises a sheet m~terial cover plate which can be manuEactured of pressed sheet metal or from a moulded plastic material. The cover plate has three arms extending mutually at right angles and arran-ged so as to cooperate with the respective adjacent wall moulding. As shown in Figure 4, t'ne three arms are in-dicated at 10, 11 and 12 and comprise a sheet of plastic material arranged to overlie the outer surface of the res-pective moulding and incorporating a pair of tines which cooperate with the rear surfaces of the moulding to clip the respective arm around the moulding. The tines 13 are turned inwardly and sprung slightly so as to spring clip the arm around the moulding.
The material of the arm is flexible so that it can be opened to place the tines over the moulding and clip them in place.
The outer surfac~ of the arm of the connector ~33~3 closely follows the outer surface of the respective mould-ing so that as shown in Figure ~, the surEace of the arm is substantially circular of the same radius of curva-ture as the mouldings. The portion of the connector bet-ween the arms is shaped merely to provide a surface join-ing the arms which is relatively smooth, symmetrical and pleasing to the eye.
As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the surfaces of the arms of the connector cooperating with the concave mouldings are similarly concave. Also as shown in Figu-res 1 and 2, the connector may be shaped to provide an or-namental appearance.
The thin cover or cover plate can be manufactu-red from various thin materials including sheet metal, moulded plastic material, plastic coated metal and even stiff fabric or other fibre reinforced materials.
Since various modifications can be made in my invention as hereinabove described, and many apparently widely different embodiments of same made within the spirit and scope of the claims without departing from such spirit and scope, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification shall be in-terpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.

Claims

WHAT I CLAIM AS MY INVENTION:
(1) A method of joining three wall mouldings arranged mutually at right angles comprising fixing each of the mouldings to respective walls such that they termi-nate adjacent a junction and extend therefrom mutually at right angles, covering the junction with a cover member having three arms with each arm extending along a part of a respective one of the wall mouldings and clipping the cover member to each of the mouldings by clip means ex-tending around the respective moulding.
(2) A method according to Claim 1 wherein the cover member is formed from a thin material so as to cover the junction substantially without extending into the space between the mouldings.
(3) A method according to Claim 1 wherein the ends of the mouldings adjacent the junction are spaced from each other.
(4) A method according to Claim 1 wherein the mouldings each comprise surfaces parallel to the adjacent walls and an outer surface and wherein the arms are shaped to conform to the outer surface of the respective mould-ing.
(5) A method according to Claim 4 wherein the outer surface is curved.

(6) A method according to Claim 5 wherein the outer surface of each moulding is concave.
(7) A method according to Claim 5 wherein the outer surface of one of the mouldings is convex and the outer surface of the other two mouldings is concave.
(8) A method according to Claim 5 wherein the outer surfaces of the mouldings are convex.
(9) A method according to Claim 1 wherein the clip means comprises a pair of thin tines each arranged substantially parallel to a rear surface of the respective moulding so as to extend between the surface of the mould-ing and the wall.
(10) A method according to Claim 9 wherein the clip means is resilient so as to spring clip the cover member to each of the respective mouldings.
(11) A connector for wall mouldings affixed to walls such that the mouldings terminate adjacent the junction and extend therefrom mutually at right angles comprising a cover member having three arms and arranged to cover the junction with each arm extending along and covering a part of a respective one of the wall mouldings and three clip means each associated with respective arm and arranged such that the clip means extends around the respective moulding to clip the connector thereto.

(12) A wall connector according to Claim 11 wherein the cover member is formed from a thin material so as to cover the junction substantially without extending into the space between the mouldings.
(13) A wall connector according to Claim 11 wherein the ends of the mouldings adjacent the junction are spaced from each other.
(14) A wall connector according to Claim 11 wherein the mouldings each comprise surfaces parallel to the adjacent walls and an outer surface and wherein the arms are shaped to conform to the outer surface of the res-pective moulding.
(15) A wall connector according to Claim 14 wherein the outer surface is curved.
(16) A wall connector according to Claim 15 wherein the outer surface of each moulding is concave.
(17) A wall connector according to Claim 15 wherein the outer surface of one of the mouldings is convex and the outer surface of the other two mouldings is concave.
(18) A wall connector according to Claim 15 wherein the outer surfaces of the mouldings are convex.
(19) A wall connector according to Claim 11 wherein the clip means comprises a pair of thin tines each arranged substantially parallel to a rear surface of the respective moulding so as to extend between the surface of the moulding and the wall.
(20) A wall connector according to Claim 19 wherein the clip means is resilient so as to spring clip the cover member to each of the respective mouldings.
(21) A combination comprising a plurality of wall mouldings which can be affixed to respective walls such that the mouldings terminate adjacent the junction and extend therefrom mutually at right angles and a cover member having three arms and arranged to cover the junction with each arm extending along and covering a part of a respective one of the wall mouldings and three clip means each associated with a respective arm and arranged such that the clip means extend around the respective moulding to clip the connector thereto.
(22) A combination according to Claim 21 where-in the cover member is formed from a thin material so as to cover the junction substantially without extending into the space between the mouldings.
(23) A combination according to Claim 21 where-in the ends of the mouldings adjacent the junction are spaced from each other.
(24) A combination according to Claim 21 where-in the mouldings each comprise surfaces parallel to the adjacent walls and an outer surface and wherein the arms are shaped to conform to the outer surfaces of the res-pective moulding.
(25) A combination according to Claim 24 where-in the outer surface is curved.
(26) A combination according to Claim 25 where-in the outer surface of each moulding is concave.
(27) A combination according to Claim 25 where-in the outer surface of one of the mouldings is convex and the outer surface of the other two mouldings is concave.
(28) A combination according to Claim 25 where-in the outer surfaces of the mouldings are convex.
(29) A combination according to Claim 21 where-in the clip means comprises a pair of thin tines each arranged substantially parallel to a rear surface of the respective moulding so as to extend between the surface of the moulding and the wall.
(30) A combination according to Claim 29 where-in the clip means is resilient so as to spring clip the cover member to each of the respective mouldings.
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