APPARATUS FOR LIFTING OR SUPPORTING MODULAR FURNITURE

摘要

Apparatus for lifting or supporting modular furniture panels having accessory hanging tracks with apertures, including a support having an upright shaft and a lifting jig movable on the shaft. The lifting jig has a support plate for engaging the underside of a panel, and an angle bracket above the support plate has a series of undercut hooks for engagement with apertures of a hanging track so as to positively locate the jig in relation to the panel. The angle bracket has an inner flange parallel to and attached to a front face of the lifting jig and an outer flange projecting perpendicularly from the front face and having the hooks. The inner flange is provided with horizontal slots which are engageable by screws which extend into said front face of the lifting jig and which allow lateral adjustment of the bracket relative to the lifting jig. The slots have enlarged end portions which allow the bracket to be removed from the lifting jig upon loosening of the screws, so that the bracket may removed and repositioned in inverted position without removal of the screws; in inverted position the hooks can directly engage the hanging tracks.