Connection member for display racks

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MEMBER FOR RELEASABLY CONNECTING LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING AND ALIGNED CYLINDRICAL HORIZONTAL PIPES OF MOVABLE GARMENT RACKS AND THE LIKE SO AS TO MAINTAIN THE RACKS IN ALIGNMENT, SAID PIPES HAVING COAXIAL END CAPS OF ENLARGED DIAMETER, SAID MEMBER COMPRISING A HEAVY CAST METAL LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING BODY HAVING A PERIPHERAL WALL OF GREATER DIAMETER THAN SAID END CAPS, SAID BODY HAVING A DOWNWARDLY OPENING SEMI-CYLINDRICAL CENTRAL RECESS OF APPROXIMATELY THE SAME DIAMETER AS SAID END CAPS AND OF LENGTH GREATER THAN THE COMBINED LENGTH OF SAID END CAPS, SAID BODY HAVING DOWNWARDLY OPENING END RECESSES EXTENDING TO THE ENDS THEREOF AND COAXIAL WITH SAID CENTRAL RECESS AND EXTENDING TO AND COMMUNICATING THEREWITH, THE DIAMETER OF SAID END RECESSES BEING LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID CENTRAL RECESS, EACH END RECESS HAVING AN UPPER SEMI-CYLINDRICAL PORTION OF APPROXIMATELY THE SAME DIAMETER AS SAID PIPES, THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF EACH END RECESS ECTENDING BELOW THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID CENTRAL RECESS AND SAID END RECESSES INCREASING IN WIDTH IN A DOWNWARD DIRECTION, SAID MEMBER CONNECTING SAID PIPES WITH SAID END CAPS IN SAID CENTRAL RECESS AND THE PERIPHERAL WALL THEREOF RESTING CONFORMINGLY ON SAID END CAPS, AND WITH SAID PIPES EXTENDING THROUGH SAID END RECESSES AND THE PERIPHERAL WALLS THEREOF RESTING CONFORMINGLY ON SAID PIPES, SAID END RECESS PERIPHERAL WALLS EXTENDING BELOW SAID PIPES, SAID BODY HAVING ON ONE SIDE THEREOF RADIAL SCREW-THREADED BORES EXTENDING THROUGH THE RESPECTIVE END RECESS PERIPHERAL WALL BELOW THE HORIZONTAL DIAMETER LINES OF SAID PIPES AND ABOVE THE BOTTOMS OF SAID PIPES, SAID MEMBER ALSO COMPRISING SET SCREWS SCREWED INTO SAID BORES AND RETRACTABLY SCREWABLE INTO ENGAGEMENT AGAINST SAID PIPES TO PREVENT SAID MEMBER FROM BEING LIFTED FROM SAID PIPES.