Adjustable mounting device for a pole
OwnerSalvatore Sistoinventor
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Abstract
A device for mounting a support apparatus or item to a pole-like structure includes a support item for use by a user to store a personal-use article, a mounting bracket configured to slideably engage the pole-like structure in a plurality of user-selectable mounted positions, and a rotatable clamping arm of the support item. The clamping arm is pivotably coupled to the bracket and rotatable into and out of locking engagement therewith between locked and unlocked positions. The support item may include a stopping surface which comes into contact with an upper edge of the bracket when the clamping arm is in the unlocked position to prevent damaging the pole-like structure.
Claims20
A device for mounting a support item to a pole-like structure, the system comprising:
- a vertically oriented pole-like structure having a circumference;
- a mounting bracket slideably coupled to the pole-like structure, the mounting bracket configured to wrap around more than half of the circumference of the longitudinal support structure, the mounting bracket having an upper edge;
- the support item comprising a rotatable clamping arm pivotably attached to the mounting bracket such that the clamping arm is configured to rotate into and out of locking engagement with the pole-like structure;
- the support item being slideable on the pole-like structure when the clamping arm is rotated out of engagement with the pole-like structure in an unlocked position, the support item being locked in position on the pole-like structure when the clamping arm is rotated into engagement with the pole-like structure;
- a pivot pin pivotably attaching the rotatable clamping arm to the mounting bracket;
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- a stopping surface on the support item, the stopping surface coming into contact with the upper edge of the mounting bracket when the clamping arm is in the unlocked position to prevent damaging the pole-like structure.
A system for mounting a support apparatus comprising:
- a vertically oriented cylindrical pole having a circumference;
- a mounting bracket comprising a semi-cylindrical collar slideably engaged with the pole and a pair of spaced apart parallel flanges extending laterally outwards from the collar;
- the support apparatus having an angular body comprising a supporting arm configured for holding a personal-use article and a rotatable clamping arm extending perpendicularly from the supporting arm;
- the support apparatus coupled to the mounting bracket by a pivot pin, the support apparatus being pivotably movable between an unlocked position in which the supporting arm is horizontally oriented, and a locked position in which the supporting arm is vertically oriented;
- the clamping arm configured and operable to move into and out of locking engagement with the pole by selectively rotating the supporting arm;
- the support apparatus being slideable up and down the pole when the clamping arm is disengaged from the pole;
- the support apparatus being locked in position on the pole when the clamping arm is engaged with the pole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.