US 4,071,976 AGranted

Holding device

AssigneeHouse of Hints Corporation

InventorAlbert J. Chernewski

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Abstract

A holding device which is particularly suitable for holding potted plants, flower boxes and the like on saucers and the like on a wall is constructed which comprises an L-shaped unit comprising a vertical mounting member which is secured to the wall having ribs along the surface and the side portions of which terminate in lips which form a slot, means for securing said vertical mounting member to a wall, a horizontal support member integral with said vertical mounting member at a substantially right angle thereto and having an angularly disposed protuberance running from the lower portion of said vertical mounting member to the rear portion of said horizontal support member, said horizontal support member also having ribs along its surface and a holding member comprising a body portion which terminates at its upper portion in a downturned tongue, said body portion having ribs along its surface and at the end opposite the downturned tongue a slot which mates with the protuberance. Said holding member is sized such as to fit within the slot formed in the vertical mounting member by the lips.

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Dependent claims

A device for mounting and holding a flower pot or the like in spaced relationship to a wall or other vertical surface, said device comprising an L-shaped unit having a vertically extending portion adapted to be secured to the wall or vertical surface through spaced holes arranged centrally thereof and through which screws or the like can pass, the vertically extending portion having its edges inturned to form U-shaped channels of a width leaving said holes exposed, ribs extending along the vertically extending portion underlying the inturned edges and substantially coextensive in length therewith and a horizontally extending portion integral with the said vertically extending portion and provided with ribs on which the flower pot or the like rests, the juncture formed between the vertically and horizontally extending portions having an angularly disposed protuberance strengthening the juncture against downward movement of the horizontally extending portion under the weight of the flower pot or the like and said ribs providing airspace below the bottom of the flower pot or the like, said device also comprising a separate holding member slidable in said channels, having ribs matching with the ribs in the vertically extending portion and an angularly downturned upper end adapted to extend over the top of the flower pot or the like in stabilizing contact therewith, the lowermost edge of the slidable member having a central inverted V-shaped notch for reception of the angularly disposed protuberance and for limiting downward movement of the slidable member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.