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A bracket assembly such as is used for hanging office furnishing components on vertical supports, e.g., slotted posts of office partition systems, includes a mounting bracket with a plurality of aligned, coplanar hooks for engagement with aligned slots of such supports and an interlock member pivota

A bracket assembly such as is used for hanging office furnishing components on vertical supports, e.g., slotted posts of office partition systems, includes a mounting bracket with a plurality of aligned, coplanar hooks for engagement with aligned slots of such supports and an interlock member pivotally mounted on the bracket, with a cam section at one end and a locking projection at the other. The cam section is positioned to enter a slot as the bracket is engaged on the support and thereafter engages the lower edge of the slot as the bracket is seated to rotate the interlock member and extend the locking projection into another of the slots. The locking projection is positioned to enter the slot as the interlock is rotated by the cam and thereafter is held in the slot by the interlock to preclude raising of the bracket for disengagement of the hooks except upon counterrotation of the interlock member by the user.

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A mounting bracket assembly for supporting office furnishing components on generally vertical support members each provided with a plurality of vertically aligned engagement slots, comprising: a support bracket which includes a plurality of hook elements projecting in generally coplanar alignment wi

A mounting bracket assembly for supporting office furnishing components on generally vertical support members each provided with a plurality of vertically aligned engagement slots, comprising: a support bracket which includes a plurality of hook elements projecting in generally coplanar alignment with one another at one side of said bracket, said hook elements shaped and arranged for supportably engaging such a support member by movement of said bracket transversely to such a support member to insert such hooks thereof into a group of said slots and then downwardly to engage said hooks on the portions of such support member immediately beneath the respective slots; an interlock member pivotally mounted on said bracket for pivotal movement, relative to said bracket, about a pivot axis generally normal to the coplanar alignment of said hook elements; a locking projection on said interlock member at one side of said pivot axis and extending generally parallel to said hook elements for selective projection into one of such slots of such a support member on which said bracket assembly is engaged; a cam section on said interlock member at the opposite side of said pivot axis and extending in a direction generally parallel to said hook elements; said locking projection being disposed, longitudinally of said bracket, such that it will abut such support member without entering one of said slots therein as said hooks are moved transversely into their respective slots and will be aligned with one of said slots in the course of such downward movement of said bracket by which said hooks are engaged; said cam section having a cam surface positioned to engage a portion of such support member during such downward movement of said bracket to cause retractive movement of said cam section and thereby to rotate said interlock member to extend said locking element into its respective aligned slot in the course of such downward movement of said bracket; and the configuration and relative positioning of said hooks and said locking element being such that said locking element engages such support member in the respective slot to preclude vertical movement of said bracket which would permit transverse disengagement of said hooks from their respective slots.