Divider clip for a drawer divider assembly

Abstract

A divider clip of a drawer divider assembly serves to readily couple intersecting rails of the assembly in a secure manner. A rib on the clip enters, during clip installation, a channel on a rail of the assembly to prevent upward accidental dislodgment of the clip. An upper end of the clip is of a resilient nature and of hook configuration with an end for biased contact with an inclined rail surface to urge the clip and the rib thereon upwardly to a locked position.

1 - In a divider assembly for installation in a drawer, said divider assembly including intersecting perimeter rails, divider rails located in the area defined by the perimeter rails, said perimeter and divider rails having lengthwise channels and top grooves,
 the improvement comprising a divider clip for attachment to at least two of said rails, said divider clip having a reversed top end segment of flexible construction for manually biased engagement with a rail top end segment momentarily flexing the top end segment, a rib on the divider insertable into a rail channel, inherent contraction of the reversed end segment upon removal of manual force, permitting the divider clip to move upwardly lifting the rib thereon into perimeter rail contact.   
   
   
       2 - In a drawer divider assembly having perimeter rails and divider rails, each defining a groove along their upper extremity, said rails each having a lengthwise channel, the improvement comprising,
 a divider clip comprising a reversed end segment of flexible construction for manually urged engagement with a rail groove momentarily displacing the end segment, release of manually imparted force on the reversed end segment permitting automatic retraction of the end segment and upward displacement of the divider clip to seat a rib on the divider clip in a rail channel for clip retention.   
   
   
       3 - In combination,
 first and second intersecting rails of a drawer divider assembly, said first and second rails each having a top groove and at least one channel on the rail sides, a clip for joining said first and said rails and carried at the end of said first rail, said clip in abutment with a side of said second rail and having a reversed upper end segment of flexible construction terminating in a lip in biased flexed engagement with the top groove of said second rail, said clip including a rib disposed in the channel of said second rail, said lip imparting upward movement to the clip to urge the rib thereon into engagement with a channel defining surface on said second rail.