Bracket assembly
OwnerJim Couchinventor
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Abstract
The invention comprises a two-member bracket assembly each member cooperating with the other. A locking effect is produced on an article, such as a screw or bolt, securely mounted in a wall or the like. The first member includes a bight that is securely mounted to a frame or the like that is to hang on the wall. The bight via an aperture in it is thrust over, say, the screw-head of, the article in the wall. The second member cooperates by engaging the bight in the latter's cavity, sliding therealong and into a position on such article to lock the bracket assembly to such article. This locking effect is obtained by the second member including sections which define a slot that clips on to the article, say, behind the shoulder of the screw-head in the example above, that has been thrust through the aperture of the bight.
Claims26
In a bracket assembly comprising at least two members, the first member including a bight forming a cavity and having an aperture therein for passage therethrough of a shoulder on an article adaptable for mounting to a wall or the like and means for operatively connecting said bight to a frame or the like,
- wherein the improvement comprises
- the second member being of a clip-like nature mountable in the cavity of and to said bight in an engaging, sliding relationship,
- said second member including two sections defining opposing edges between which is disposed a slot, said sections, edges and slot extending in the same general direction as the direction by which said second member is assembled in engaging relationship to said bight,
- the aperture and slot being in alignment upon such assembly,
- the slot having a dimension along its length less than that of the aperture,
- whereby in the assembly of said two members, the lesser dimension of the slot clips on to the article behind its shoulder to lock article and assembly together.
A bracket assembly comprising in combination,
- two members,
- the first member including a bight forming a cavity and having an aperture therein for passage therethrough of a shoulder on an article adapted for mounting to a wall or the like and means for operatively connecting said bight to a frame or the like,
- the second member being of a clip-like nature mountable in the cavity of and to be mounted to said bight in an engaging, sliding relationship,
- said second member including two sections defining opposing edges between which is disposed a slot, said sections, edges and slot extending in the same general direction as the direction by which said second member is assembled in engaging relationship to said bight,
- the aperture and slot being in alignment upon such assembly,
- the slot having a dimension along its length less than that of the aperture,
- whereby in the assembly of said two members, the lesser dimension of the slot clips on to the article behind its shoulder to lock article and assembly together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.