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US 4,262,874 AGranted
Plate hanger
OwnerWilliam Seighinventor
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Abstract
A hanger for supporting a plate on a vertical wall wherein the hanger has an arcuate transparent body portion which is bonded with transparent adhesive to the back of the plate. The hanger is provided with a plurality of adjacent notches permitting orientation of the plate relative to a wall mounted hanger element and is transparent to permit reading of notations on the back of a plate.
Claims4
A hanger assembly for hanging a plate on a wall comprising;
- a body portion in the form of an arc of an annulus, said body portion including a first arcuate flange, a second arcuate flange spaced from said first arcuate flange, said second flange having a radial width greater than said first flange and forming a flat surface, a layer of adhesive disposed on said flat surface and being adapted to bond said body portion to the bottom surface of a plate adjacent to the bottom rim of said plate, said first flange having uniformly spaced adjacent notches formed in an inner circumferential portion of said arcuate flange and in axially spaced relationship to said layer of adhesive, a hanger element adapted to be supported on a wall to receive a selected one of said notches, said hanger element having a head portion disposed in the space between said first flange and layer of adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.