Form-fitting Corner Protector Member or Profile for Facing and Finishing Inside Corners and Edges

Abstract

A corner protector member for establishing and finishing a transition between a first surface, a second surface and a third surface, the first, second and third surfaces forming an inside corner. One corner protector embodiment includes a rear face portion oriented inwardly in relation to the inside corner, which is securable to the inside corner, and from which integrally extends an external frontal or basal face portion, the lateral edges of which are securable alone or with the addition of an integral pin or barb to the inside corner, positively locking and engaging with the interior corner surfaces so as to firmly anchored therein and thereto.

1 . A corner protector member for assembly completion of the interior corner facing of an inside corner of a particular interior space, comprised of three angularly related surfaces and formed as a single, unitary body which is characterized by a interiorly-facing surface with respect to an interior space from which extends a posteriorly-oriented portion formed as a portion of the unitary body which faces the direction of the room's or space's interior corner and which positively locks and engages with the interior corner and can accordingly be anchored therein. 
     
     
         2 . A corner protector member according to  claim 1  in which said corner protector member is capable of positively engaging with the surrounding wall and floor surfaces of a room's interior corner. 
     
     
         3 . A corner protector member according to  claim 1  or  2 , wherein said member is constructed as a truncated cone or tetrahedral frusta, of which the basal face of said truncated cone forms the visible face of the corner protector member which is oriented outwardly from the interior corner into which the corner protector member is fitted and from which the adjacent frusta surfaces flow and engage and integrate with the wall and ceiling surfaces of an interior space. 
     
     
         4 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claims 1 ,  2  and  3  wherein the visible face has a diameter of approximately 16.25 millimeters to 24.25 millimeters. 
     
     
         5 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claims 1 ,  2 ,  3  and  4  wherein said corner protector member is constructed so as to fit and positively lock and engage with the sealing joint and said visible face mates seamlessly and positively locks with and to the surfaces of the sealing joint. 
     
     
         6 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claims 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 , and  5  wherein said visible face is formed so as to have a flush or flat, convex, lenticular, fillistered or rounded surface. 
     
     
         7 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claims 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 , and  6  wherein the corner protector member may be directly driven or otherwise introduced and affixed to or in the corner of a room at a point where perpendicular walls meet. 
     
     
         8 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claims 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 , and  6  wherein the rear face features a central bore. 
     
     
         9 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claim 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 ,  6 ,  6 , or  8 , wherein the rear face of the corner member features a central bore in which a barb, bolt, or pin is fixably inserted, the tip of which is anchored to the interior corner of the room or space. 
     
     
         10 . A corner protector member according to any one of  claim 1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 ,  6 ,  7 ,  8 , or  9  wherein the corner protector member features a border comprised of bevels, ripples, offsets and the like.