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US 4,460,142 AGranted
Bracket for supporting a sign to a cylindrical post
OwnerBlondale O'Rorkeinventor
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Abstract
A bracket for supporting a sign to a cylindrical post is held to the post by means of a flexible band, one end of the band being wound onto a slotted bolt to tighten the bracket against the post, the bracket having a recess to receive the head of the bolt so as to retain tension on the band.
Claims6
A bracket for supporting a sign to a cylindrical post comprising:
- a body portion having a forward end having means to receive a member for the support of a sign, the rearward end being adapted to engage the surface of a cylindrical post to which a sign is to be supported, a small diameter opening in the body portion, the axis of which is parallel to the rearward end and a shallow depth noncircular recess of larger diameter than the small diameter opening in the surface of the body portion coaxial with said small diameter opening and a slot in the body portion communicating with said small diameter opening;
- a flexible band having the first end affixed to said body portion, the band extending around a post to which said body portion is affixed for holding a sign, the second end extending into said body portion slot;
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- a bolt having an enlarged noncircular head non-rotatably receivable in said noncircular recess, the bolt having a slot therein and being received in said small diameter opening, the second end of said band being received in said bolt slot whereby said bolt may be rotated to wind said band thereon to tighten the band and body member against a post after which said bolt head may be driven into said shallow depth recess to retain the bolt in a nonrotatable position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.