Cleating apparatus

Abstract

A cleating apparatus for mounting a vanity top from a pair of oppositely disposed vertical return walls formed in the recess of a room. The apparatus includes a pair of oppositely disposed rails for mounting in a horizontal orientation on such return walls, in horizontal alignment with one another. The respective rails are formed at their front ends with respect to upwardly opening notches having downwardly and rearwardly inclined wedge surfaces. A skirt is provided for covering the front ends of such rails and have respective brackets on the opposite ends thereof and projecting rearwardly therefrom in coextensive relationship with such rails. Mounted to the opposed sides of such brackets are triangular wedged blocks having respective downwardly and rearwardly inclined surfaces for complimental engagement with the notch wedge surfaces. The blocks are mounted from the brackets a distance rearwardly of the backside of the skirt to cooperate therewith when nested in the respective notches to cause the skirt to be drawn rearwardly into engagement with such front ends under the influence of gravity when the blocks are nested in the respective notches.

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