U.S. patent application number 10/054102 was filed with the patent office on 2002-05-16 for section fixable to an anchoring base.
This patent application is currently assigned to Profil-Vertrieb GmbH. Invention is credited to Hertweck, Theo.
Application Number | 20020056244 10/054102 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 7899108 |
Filed Date | 2002-05-16 |
United States Patent
Application |
20020056244 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Hertweck, Theo |
May 16, 2002 |
Section fixable to an anchoring base
Abstract
A section fixable in a mounted position to an anchoring base by
means of fastening screws has at least one fastening segment
extending in the mounted position substantially parallel to the
anchoring base. The fastening segment is, for example, a fastening
flange, which is provided with at least one screw hole for
receiving a fastening screw provided with a slot or cross slot as
the surface engaged by a screwdriver. A safety (or securing) tab
protrudes from the fastening segment at least within the area of
the screw hole. When the section is in its mounted position and
after the fastening screw has been driven in, the safety tab can be
deformed by bending or folding it into its safety or securing
position. In this position, the tab grips over the edge of the
screw head of the fastening screw and leaves free the surface
engaged by the screwdriver. In an alternative embodiment of the
section, a spring-elastic safety arrest is used instead of a
bendable safety tab. As a fastening screw is being driven in, the
safety arrest is pushed away sideways by the head of the screw and,
after the fastening screw has been completely driven in, the safety
arrest snaps into a safety position in which it grips over the edge
of the head of the fastening screw.
Inventors: |
Hertweck, Theo;
(Baden-Baden, DE) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Collard & Roe, P.C.
1077 Northern Boulevard
Roslyn
NY
11576
US
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Assignee: |
Profil-Vertrieb GmbH
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Family ID: |
7899108 |
Appl. No.: |
10/054102 |
Filed: |
October 22, 2001 |
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Application
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Filing Date |
Patent Number |
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10054102 |
Oct 22, 2001 |
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09484769 |
Jan 18, 2000 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
52/520 ; 52/519;
52/547 |
Current CPC
Class: |
E04F 13/0812 20130101;
F16B 39/108 20130101; E04B 9/0478 20130101; Y10T 428/12382
20150115; E04F 13/0803 20130101; E04B 9/26 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
52/520 ; 52/519;
52/547 |
International
Class: |
E04D 001/34 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Feb 27, 1999 |
DE |
199 08 585.4 |
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A section fixable in a mounted position to an anchoring base by
means of fastening screws having a screw head with a surface for
engaging a screwdriver comprising at least one fastening segment
adapted to extend substantially parallel to the anchoring base in
the mounted position, at least one screw hole disposed in said
fastening segment for receiving a fastening screw driven into an
installed position in the anchoring base in which the screw head
grips over an edge of the screw hole, a safety tab projecting from
the fastening segment at least in the area of the screw hole, said
safety tab with the section in the mounted position and the
fastening screw in the installed position being deformable into a
safety position in which said safety tab grips over an edge of the
screw and leaves free the surface engaged by the screwdriver.
2. The section according to claim 1, wherein the safety tab is
provided within the area of the screw hole with a release having
edges such that in the safety position, the edges of the release
grip over the edge of the screw head, leaving free the surface
engaged by the screwdriver.
3. The section according to claim 1, further comprising a center
part and wherein the safety tab comprises a lengthwise extending
safety flange extending from said fastening segment on the side of
the fastening segment facing away from the center part, said safety
flange being raised upright and bendable into the safety
position.
4. The section according to claim 3 comprising a long-stretching
hat section and wherein the fastening segments comprise lengthwise
extending fastening flanges on both sides of the center part of the
section, said fastening flanges having edges provided with raised
upright safety flanges.
5. The section according to claim 1, comprising a fastening element
for mounting U-shaped ceiling sections comprising a center part and
wherein the fastening segments comprise element fastening tabs
projecting sideways from the center part on opposite sides, said
fastening tabs each being penetrated by a screw hole, and where on
the sides facing away from the center part, the safety tab is
raised upright on each side from the fastening tabs, said safety
tab being bendable into the safety position in which it grips over
the edge of the screw head.
6. A section fixable in a mounted position to an anchoring base by
means of fastening screws having a screw head with a slotted
surface for engaging a screwdriver comprising of: at least one
fastening segment adapted to extend substantially parallel to the
anchoring base in the mounted position, at least one screw hole
disposed in said fastening segment for receiving a fastening screw
driven into an installed position in the anchoring base whereby the
screw head grips over an edge of the screw hole, a safety arrest
having a spring elasticity projecting on at least one side from the
fastening segment at least in the area of the screw hole, said
safety arrest being pushed away sideways by the screw head when the
fastening screw is driven into the installed position, said safety
arrest when the section is in the mounted position snapping into a
safety position in which said safety arrest grips over an edge of
the screw head and leaves free the surface engaged by the
screwdriver.
7. The section according to claim 6, wherein the section comprises
a center part and the safety arrest comprises a spring leg
projecting from the side of the fastening segment facing away from
the center part to form a slanted surface ascending toward the
fastening segment, said spring leg being spring-elastically
connected with the fastening segment via an approximately C-shaped
spring segment.
8. The section according to claim 7 comprising a long-stretching
hat section, two fastening segments and two spring legs, said
fastening segments comprising retaining flanges extending
lengthwise on each side of said section, said spring elements
extending lengthwise on the other side of each retaining flange and
projecting from each side of said section in the form of an
approximately C-shaped spring segment, said spring legs diverging
from each other.
9. The section according to claim 6 comprising a long-stretching
hat section having a fastening segment, a support flange extending
lengthwise on each side of the fastening segment, a section bridge
connecting each support flange with a respective side of the
fastening segment and a plurality of safety arrests, said support
flanges extending in planes substantially parallel to the fastening
segment and adapted for mounting flat covering elements, said
safety arrests comprising lengthwise extending corrugations molded
into the safety bridges extending between the support flanges and
the fastening segment, said safety corrugations gripping over the
edge of the screw head of an installed fastening screw in the
installed position.
10. The section according to claim 9, wherein the length-wise
extending corrugations are limited toward the side pointing away
from the fastening segment by slanted surfaces diverging from each
other, and on the side pointing to the fastening segment by steps
forming undercuts of the section bridges.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The invention concerns a section that can be fixed to an
anchoring base by means of fastening screws. The section has at
least one fastening segment, which, in the mounted position,
extends substantially parallel with the anchoring base. The
fastening segment has at least one screw hole for receiving a
fastening screw, which can be screwed into the anchoring base, and
which has a screw head with a slot or cross slot (Phillips head)
for engaging a screwdriver. In the mounted position, the screw head
extends over the edge of the screw hole.
[0003] The types of section to which the invention relates may be
support sections for fastening panels or other covering elements.
In addition, the invention may serve as special fastening elements
for clipping on C-shaped support sections, which, with their
fastening segments pointing upwardly are attached to an anchoring
base by means of fastening screws screwed into the anchoring
base.
[0004] 2. The Prior Art
[0005] The anchoring base is, as a rule a wood beam-type ceiling,
where the sections are screwed to the beams. Especially in
connection with older wood beam ceilings, the anchoring base
frequently has uneven spots. Such uneven areas were leveled out
heretofore by intermediate layers clamped between the wood beams
and the fastening segments of the sections. This procedure,
however, takes up time during the installation work, and is
therefore costly.
[0006] Therefore, the problem on which the invention is based
consists in improving sections of the type specified above for the
aforementioned purpose so that such sections can be mounted in a
simple and quick way in their correct positions even if the
anchoring base has uneven spots.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] This problem is solved with the section according to the
invention in which a safety tab projects from the fastening segment
at least in the area of the screw hole. When the section is in its
mounted position, after the fastening screw has been screwed into
an anchoring base, the safety tab can be deformed into a safety (or
securing) position, in which it grips over the edge of the head of
the fastening screw, leaving free the surface area of the screw
head that is to be engaged by the screwdriver.
[0008] Therefore, with the section as defined by the invention, a
safety tab is shaped by molding on the fastening segment at least
in the area of a screw hole serving the purpose of receiving a
fastening screw. This safety tab permits the fastening screw to be
screwed in without any obstruction, and then bent or deformed in
some other way after the fastening screw has been driven in. When
in its securing position, the safety tab grips over the screw head
along its edge without covering the area of the screw head that is
engaged by the screwdriver.
[0009] A section so designed can be mounted on the anchoring base
by first driving in the fastening screw or screws until the
fastening segment abuts the anchoring base. The raised (or upright)
safety tab is then bent into the safety position in which it grips
over or covers the screw head along its edge, for example by means
of a blow with a hammer. Subsequently, the section can be adjusted
by turning back(or slightly loosening again) the fastening screw
driven into the anchoring base, i.e. the section can be spaced from
the anchoring base for compensating any uneven areas or spots.
[0010] According to a further aspect of the invention, the safety
tab may be provided with a release element, so that when in the
safety or securing position, the edges of such release element grip
over the edge of the screw head, leaving free the surface area on
the screw head that is engaged by the screwdriver.
[0011] Depending on the dimension of the safety tab and the release
element, it is possible in accordance with a further aspect for the
edges of the release element to grip over the head of a fastening
screw not only on a portion of the screwhead edge forming a segment
of a circle, but also over a peripheral angle of up to
180.degree..
[0012] According to another aspect of the invention, the section
may have a safety tab running along the side of the fastening
segment facing away from a center part of the section. The safety
tab is raised from the segment into an upright position and can be
bent into the safety or securing position. This further aspect is
important especially in connection with long-stretching
sections.
[0013] Such a section may be characterized by being embodied in the
form of a long-stretching hat section. This hat section has
fastening flanges as fastening segments running or extending along
both sides of a center part of the section. The fastening flanges
serve as fastening segments with safety flanges raised in upright
positions from the segments on its edge sides.
[0014] Within the framework of the present invention, however, the
section may be characterized also by being designed as a fastening
element for mounting U-shaped ceiling support sections, for example
by clipping onto such sections. In this section, fastening tabs
each penetrated by a screw hole project laterally as fastening
segments from opposite sides of a section center part. On the sides
facing away from the center part, one of the fastening tabs is
raised on each side into a bendable securing position, in which the
safety tab grips over the edge of the screw head.
[0015] In an alternative embodiment, the section in accordance with
the invention comprises a safety pin having the elasticity of a
spring which projects at least on one side from the fastening
segment and at least within the area of the screw hole. When the
fastening screw is driven in, the safety pin is pushed away
sideways by the head of the fastening screw, and, in the mounted
position, the pin snaps into the safety or securing position, in
which it grips over the edge of the screw head, leaving free the
area that is engaged by the screwdriver.
[0016] This embodiment has a safety lock with a spring-elastic
design. When the fastening screw is driven in, the screw head first
hits the projecting safety pin, the safety pin yields sideways
under the effect of the force acting on the pin as the fastening
screw is being driven in and after the fastening screw has been
completely driven in, the safety pin rebounds into a safety
position, in which the screw head is engaged on the edge side.
[0017] This embodiment permits such sections to be mounted in a
particularly simple and quick way because the safety lock is
automatically received in its safety position after the fastening
screws have been driven in. According to a useful further aspect of
this embodiment, the safety lock may comprise a spring leg which
projects on the side of the fastening segment facing away from a
center part of the section. This arrangement forms an inclined
surface ascending towards the fastening segment, whereby the
slanted surface is spring-elastically connected with the fastening
segment via an approximately C-shaped spring segment.
[0018] With this embodiment of the invention, when a fastening
screw is driven in, the head of the screw slides up on the slanted
surface ascending in the form of a wedge toward the fastening
segment, which causes the safety detent pin or lock to be pushed
away sideways and to rebound into its securing position, in which
it grips over the edge of the screw head, as soon as the screw head
has overcome the slanted surface when the fastening screw is driven
in.
[0019] However, if the section is designed in the form of a
long-stretching hat section, with retaining flanges extending
lengthwise on both sides as fastening segments, an elastic spring
leg extending lengthwise on the outer side may extend also from
each of the retaining flanges, or fastening segments. This spring
leg is shaped by molding on the respective retaining flange via an
about C-shaped spring segment, and the two spring legs may extend
from the retaining segments, diverging from each other.
[0020] Another alternative has the section designed in the form of
a long-extending hat section. Support flanges extend lengthwise in
substantially parallel planes on both sides of a fastening segment.
Such support flanges are intended for attaching or mounting panels
or other flat covering elements. In this embodiment, corrugations
are molded as safety locks (or arrests) into section bridges
extending between the support flanges and the fastening segment,
such corrugations extending lengthwise and, in the mounted
condition, gripping over the edge of the head of a screwed-in
fastening screw. The corrugations or beads, furthermore, are
arranged symmetrically relative to the screw holes, with a spacing
from each other amounting to less than the diameter of the head of
the fastening screw.
[0021] In this embodiment, when a fastening screw is driven in, the
screw head slides with its edges onto the corrugations or beads
projecting into the section, and spreads the section legs apart as
the screw is driven in further, whereupon the section legs rebound
into their original position after the screw head has overcome the
corrugations or beads.
[0022] Another aspect of the invention facilitates the spreading of
the section legs provided with the corrugations or beads extending
lengthwise. In this aspect, the lengthwise extending corrugations
or beads may be limited on the side facing away from the fastening
segment by bevels or slants extending in a diverging way, and on
the side facing the fastening segment by undercuts of the steps
forming section legs.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0023] Other objects and features of the present invention will
become apparent from the following detailed description considered
in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be
understood, however, that the drawings are for the purposes of
illustration only and not as a definition of the limits of the
invention.
[0024] In the drawings, wherein similar reference characters denote
similar elements throughout the several views:
[0025] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hat-shaped ceiling support
section in the overhead position, the section being intended for
mounting ceiling panels or similar flat covering elements;
[0026] FIG. 2 is an enlarged detail view of the section according
to cutout II in FIG. 1;
[0027] FIG. 3 is a cutout of a section mounted on a wooden beam as
the anchoring base with the help of a fastening screw, the section
being fixed to the underside of the beam;
[0028] FIG. 4 is a view of a cutout of the mounted section as in
FIG. 3, shown in the adjusted condition with a spacing from the
anchoring base;
[0029] FIG. 5 shows by a cutout a bottom view of the mounted
section viewed according to arrow V in FIG. 4;
[0030] FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a fastening element for
clipping C-shaped ceiling support sections to the underside of the
beam;
[0031] FIG. 7 shows the fastening element according to FIG. 5
following mounting on the underside of a wooden beam as the
anchoring base;
[0032] FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a ceiling support section
similar to the one of FIG. 1, in the overhead position;
[0033] FIG. 9 is an enlarged detail view of the section according
to FIG. 8, corresponding with cutout IX in FIG. 8; and
[0034] FIG. 10 is a perspective view of another hat-shaped ceiling
support section.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0035] In FIG. 1, the ceiling support section shown in the overhead
position is designed in the form of a hat, or hat section, and has
a center part 11 designed with a lengthwise extending stiffening
corrugation with a fish skin type profiling. Such fish skin
profiling makes it easier to drive in self-cutting screws, which,
however, is of no further interest in this connection. The two
longitudinal sides of the center part 11 are adjoined by section
legs 12. Section legs 12 are provided with lengthwise extending
stiffening corrugations as well, and adjoin the center part
extending in a slightly diverging way relative to one another. Each
section leg has outwardly-pointing fastening flanges 13, in which
screw holes 14 are arranged, the holes being spaced from each other
in the longitudinal direction of the section. Along the outer edges
of fastening flanges 13, edge flanges 15 extending from fastening
flanges 13 lengthwise are raised upright in the direction of the
center part 11. In the area of the screw holes 14 edge flanges 15
are provided with releases 16 in the form of segments of a
circle.
[0036] When ceiling support sections 10 are employed as intended,
they are mounted in the way shown in FIG. 3, i.e., with their
center parts 11 pointing downwardly. They are screwed with their
fastening flanges 13 to abut anchoring base 17, using fastening
screws 18 penetrating screw holes 14. Such an anchoring base may
be, for example a wooden beam. Screw head 20 is provided with a
cross slot 19 (Phillips screw head) as the surface engaged by the
screwdriver. In the fastening process, each screw head 20 grips
over or engages the edge of screw hole 14 penetrated by the
respective fastening screw 18.
[0037] After ceiling support section 10 has been screwed on, edge
flanges 15, which are provided with the releases 16 in the area of
screw holes 14, can be bent in accordance with arrow 21 (in FIG. 3)
into a safety or securing position, for example, by applying a
hammer blow to the area of the sections provided with the releases
16. In this position, the edge flanges grip over screw heads 20 of
fastening screws 18 along the edge of the screw heads. FIGS. 4 and
5 show an edge flange 15 bent into its securing or safety position,
and it is apparent particularly in FIG. 5 that in view of the
releases 16, the edge flange 15 bent into its securing position
does not cover cross slot 19 in screw head 20. It is possible in
this way to adjust the vertical position of the ceiling support
section 10 in order to level out any uneven areas or spots of
anchoring base 17. The vertical position is adjusted by turning the
fastening screw 18 driven into the anchoring base 17 more or less
back again, i.e. by slightly unscrewing it again with the
consequence that the ceiling support section 10 with its fastening
flanges 13 will be lifted and spaced from the anchoring base 17.
FIG. 4 shows such a holding arrangement of. ceiling support section
10, with fastening flanges 13 spaced from anchoring base 17.
[0038] The fastening element 22 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is a shaped
sheet metal part produced from a single-piece sheet metal cut. In
this arrangement, spring bows 24 with retaining tabs 25 for
clipping on C-shaped support sections are bent off from a plane
center part 23 symmetrically relative to a longitudinal center
axis. Spring bows 24 are of no interest here in detail. In the
plane of center part 23, a fastening tab 27 provided with a screw
hole 26 extends from each of the two sides of center part 23. On
the outer edges removed from center part 23, safety or securing
tabs 28 are bent off from fastening tabs 27 in the direction of the
side pointing toward spring bows 24. Releases 29, which correspond
to screw holes 26 of fastening tabs 27, extend from the their free
edges into the safety tabs.
[0039] When employed as intended, fastening elements 22, in the
manner apparent from FIG. 7, are screwed to an anchoring base 17,
for example a wooden beam, by means of fastening screws 18
penetrating screw holes 26 in fastening tabs 27, with spring bows
24 projecting downwardly. After fastening tabs 26 have been screwed
on, safety tabs 28 are folded as explained above in connection with
ceiling support section 10 and FIGS. 1 to 5, so that safety or
securing tabs 28, within the area of their releases 29, grip over
the edge of the screw head 20 of the respective fastening screw 18
without covering cross slot 19. In FIG. 7, an undeformed safety tab
28 is shown on the left-hand side, whereas safety tab 28 is shown
on the right-hand side in its folded or bent securing position, in
which it grips over the edge of head 20 of fastening screw 18.
[0040] The fastening element 22 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is
adjustable in the same manner as ceiling support section 10. After
fastening element 22 has been screwed to anchoring base 17 and the
safety tabs have been subsequently folded into their safety or
securing positions, fastening screws 18 are more or less unscrewed
again. Center part 23 abutting anchoring base 17 in the
representation according to FIG. 7, and fastening tabs 27 laterally
projecting from the center part are thereby lifted from anchoring
base 17 and maintained in a position spaced from anchoring base
17.
[0041] The ceiling support section 30 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 has
the same basic structure as ceiling support section 10, and has a
center part 31 equipped with a stiffening corrugation extending
lengthwise. The center part, furthermore, has a fish skin
profiling, which makes it easier to drive in self-cutting screws
18. The longitudinal sides of center part 31 are adjoined by
section legs 32, which extend in a slightly diverging way relative
to each other, and which are provided with lengthwise extending
stiffening corrugations as well. In a plane disposed parallel with
center part 31, fastening flanges 33 project laterally from section
legs 32 extending diverging relative to each other. The fastening
flanges 33 are provided with screw holes 34 and have spring-elastic
safety arresting means 35 extending along their outer longitudinal
edges. Each safety arrest 35 consists of a spring leg 36 protruding
toward the side pointing at center part 31, and a C-shaped spring
segment 37 connecting spring leg 36 in each case with the outer
lengthwise edge of a fastening flange 33. The spring legs 36 of the
safety arrests 35 associated with the two outer longitudinal edges
of fastening flanges 33 are set slightly outwardly and extend from
the respective fastening flange 33 in a diverging way relative to
one another. On the sides of spring legs 36 pointing toward the
respective fastening flange 33, undercuts 38 are formed in view of
their connection with the outer edges of fastening flanges 33 by
means of C-shaped spring segments 37.
[0042] Ceiling support sections 30 according to FIGS. 8 and 9 are
fixed to an anchoring base 17 in the same way as ceiling support
section 10 by screwing ceiling support section 30 to anchoring base
17 using fastening screws 18. Center part 31 points down and
fastening flanges 33 abut anchoring base 17. Fastening screws 18
penetrate screw holes 34 arranged in fastening flanges 33, as is
shown in FIG. 3 for ceiling support section 10. When fastening
screws 18 are driven in, their screw heads 20 come into contact
with the slanted surfaces of spring legs 36, which are set slightly
sideways. Hence, as fastening screws 18 are driven in further,
spring legs 36 are pushed away outwardly and snap into their safety
or securing positions, in which they grip over the edge of screw
head 20 of the respective screw 18, as soon as the screw head 20
has overcome the area of transition between the respective spring
leg 36 and the adjoining C-shaped spring segment 37.
[0043] After it has been screwed to an anchoring base 17, the
ceiling support section 30 according to FIGS. 8 and 9 is adjustable
as well for leveling out any uneven spots on anchoring base 17.
This is accomplished by unscrewing fastening screws 18 again as far
as needed, whereby the edge of screw head 20 of fastening screw 18
engaged by undercut 38 takes or drives the ceiling section along
with it, and thereby lifts the ceiling section from anchoring base
17 by a measure corresponding with the extent to which fastening
screws 18 are driven back or unscrewed again.
[0044] The ceiling support section 40 shown in FIG. 10 is designed
hat-shaped as well. Section 40 has a center part 42 provided with
screw holes 41, as well as two support flanges 43 extending
outwardly in planes parallel with the center part. Panels or other
flat covering elements can be fixed to the support flanges in a
manner not of interest in this connection in detail. Two section
legs 44 extending approximately parallel with one another extend
between support flanges 43 and center part 42. The lengthwise
extending corrugations 45 serving as safety arrests are molded into
section legs 44 with a spacing from the center part corresponding
with the thickness of the screw heads 20 of the fastening screws 18
to be employed. The corrugations project into the hollow space of
the section formed by the two section legs 44. On the side pointing
to center part 42 as the fastening segment, the longitudinal
corrugations 45 are limited by steps 38 forming undercuts, and
slanted surfaces 36 adjoining the steps, or undercuts. Slanted
surfaces 36 extend in a diverging way relative to one another
toward support flanges 43.
[0045] When employed as intended, the ceiling support section 40
according to FIG. 10 is screwed to anchoring base 17 by means of
fastening screws 18 penetrating screw holes 41, with its center
part 42 abutting anchoring base 17. As fastening screws 18 are
driven in, their screw heads 20 come into contact with the slanted
surfaces 36 of safety arrests designed in the form of lengthwise
extending corrugations 45. Hence as fastening screws 18 are screwed
in further, section legs 44 are spread apart and, as soon as screw
heads 20 have overcome slanted surfaces 36 of the safety arrests,
they rebound into their original positions, with the consequence
that steps 38 of the safety arrests forming the undercuts grip over
the edge of screw heads 20.
[0046] After fastening screws 18 have been driven in and safety
arrests 45 have snapped into their safety or securing positions,
the section can be adjusted for leveling out any uneven spots on
anchoring base 17 as well by unscrewing again fastening screws 18
by a measure leveling out such uneven areas, whereby the screw
heads 20 engaged on their edges by the safety arrests 45 drive the
section along, and center part 41 of the section is lifted from
anchoring base 17 by a measure corresponding with the extent to
which fastening screws 18 are turned back again.
[0047] While a few embodiments of the present invention have been
shown and described, it is to be understood that many changes and
modifications may be made thereunto without departing from the
spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended
claims.
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