Spring-biased wall hanger
OwnerJames W. Hogginventor
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Abstract
A wall hanger which penetrates into wallboard, wood, or paneling has a pointed penetrating end formed of a resiliently deformable wire which is attached to a plate member having a hook integral therewith. A base of the wire is fixedly attached to the plate member near the hook. In an undeformed condition, the penetrating end is closer to the back of the support than the thickness of the wall, and a portion of the wire is spaced in front of the support member. Upon insertion into a wall, the penetrating end is biased against the back of the wall due to resiliency of the wire, since the portion of wire previously spaced from in front of the support member is deformed toward the support member to accommodate the wall thickness.
Claims28
In a wall hanger, the combination comprising:
- a supporting member having a generally flat rear surface and a front surface, said supporting member being adapted for abutting engagement with the front surface of a wall;
- a fastener rod member made of resilient wire shaped to form a succession of sections including:
- a penetrating section terminating in a tip adapted to penetrate a wall to introduce thereinto a succesive section;
- a load supporting section to be disposed generally horizontally in the wall, a flexural section having an upper and a lower end, said flexural section extending downwardly from said load supporting section in front of the front surface of the supporting member;
- a first means for connecting said flexural section to the front surface of the supporting member at a location spaced a predetermined distance below the load supporting section to resiliently bias the upper end of the flexural section away from the back surface of the supporting member;
- at least a portion of the penetrating section being in abutting contact with the rear side of the wall when the hanger is in place to resiliently bias said flexural section to press the generally flat rear surface of the supporting member against the front surface of the wall.
A plate in combination with a separate spring wire fastener for forming a wall hanger to support an article upon a wall comprising a plate and a wire fastener, said plate having a front surface and a back surface, the wire fastener being resiliently deformable and having an angularly offset end portion adapted to be introduced through an opening in a wall and thereafter disposed in contact with the back side of the wall to exert a bending force on said another portion of the wire fastener disposed on the front side of the wall to urge the plate into close contact with the wall, said plate including means for separably attaching said spring wire fastener to the plate to permit resilient deformation of said another portion of the fastener;
- said means for separably attaching said spring wire fastener comprising a clip integrally formed with said plate;
- said plate having a margin, a projecting portion of the margin of said plate being reentrantly formed to overlie the front surface of the plate, said fastener being separably gripped between the clip and the front surface of the plate;
- said plate including means for pivotally supporting one end of said fastener to permit swinging movement of said fastener between a first position for attachment and detachment of the fastener and a second position for retaining the fastener in place.
A wire fastener rod made of springy resilient material for use with a support member having a flat surface to lie against the front surface of a wall to provide an article support, said rod being subdivided into at least four successively arranged portions, comprising:
- a first portion to be disposed in contact with the back side of a wall terminating at one end of the rod in a pointed end adapted to penetrate said wall for forcibly introducing the rod into said wall;
- a second portion disposed at an angle to the first portion adapted to extend through the wall in a generally horizontally direction;
- a third portion disposed substantially at right angles to the second portion to extend across the exposed side of the support member and to be subjected to flexure by said contact between the first portion and said wall;
- a fourth portion adapted to be removably received by a means for mounting on the support member for fixedly positioning said fourth portion.
A wall hanger for attachment to a wall and for supporting a load, comprising a flat load supporting plate provided with a wire fastener having a medial segment adapted to project generally horizontally through an aperture in the plate and through a wall;
- one end segment provided with a tapered wall penetrating tip, to project upwardly and backwardly behind the wall, and an other end segment;
- the other end segment being adapted to project downwardly when unstressed in close contact with the front surface of the plate;
- said tapered tip disposed when unstressed in a vertical plane substantially closer to the plane of said plate than in a deformed position when inserted in a wall, only said one end segment being deformed when the wall hanger is put in place to exerre to urge the plate and said wall penetrating tip into contact with front and back surfaces respectively, of a wall;
- said wire fastener being separable from said plate, and further comprising means for connecting the wire fastener to the plate;
- said means for connecting the wire fastener to the plate further including a clip fixedly attached to said plate;
- said clip including an outwardly projecting marginal portion integral with said plate, the marginal portion being reentrantly turned to overlie the front surface of the plate;
- said outwardly projecting marginal portion being disposed along a side margin of the plate whereby when said medial segment of the wire fastener is received in said aperture said other end segment is received in the open end of the clip by swinging movement of said wire fastener about said medial segment about said aperture as an axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.