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Decorative molding strip system

US5592797A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 22, 1994
Grant dateJan 14, 1997
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
  • CPC primaryE04F19/0436
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

For use in a decorative molding system comprising thin flexible plastic molding strips having clips thereon and flexible tracks engaged by the clips, a plastic corner member provided between the adjacent plastic molding strips and forming a corner for receiving a pair of the plastic molding strips having free ends with their longitudinal axis forming an angle at a corner of a room. The plastic corner member comprises a one piece plastic body having side walls intersecting at substantially the same angle as the angle formed by the edges of said ends of adjacent plastic molding strips. Each wall has substantially the same undulating cross sectional configuration as the adjacent plastic molding strips. Each wall has an upper free edge, a lower free edge and a vertical free edge, an outer surface and an inner surface. A flexible plastic clip is attached to each the wall. Each clip has first end and a second free end. The first end is attached to its respective wall intermediate the upper free edge of the wall and the lower free edge of the wall and the second free end of the clip is attached to each the wall extending at an acute angle to the wall of the corner member from the point of…

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