US 5,179,811 AGranted

Decorative trimming system

OwnerWilliam H. Walker, Kenneth Braswellinventors

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Abstract

An improved decorative trimming system for installing crown mold, baseboard and the like to a room includes elongated mounting brackets adapted to be secured along room walls extending about the room periphery. Each bracket include a projecting tongue that extends along the length of the bracket. Prefabricated corner pieces of molding are provided with longitudinal grooves extending along the back sides of their legs for receiving the tongues of the mounting brackets in snug fitting relationship. Similarly, straight lengths or strips of molding have grooves formed along their back sides also for receiving the tongues of the mounting brackets. In use, mounting brackets are secured along room walls extending about the room periphery and prefabricated corner pieces are pressed or snapped into position on the mounting brackets. Straight lengths of molding are cut and pressed into place between the ends of opposed corner pieces to finish out the trimming without the need for intricate mitering, coping, or other skills not usually possessed by the average homeowner or do-it-yourselfer.

An improved decorative trimming system for applying molded trim about the periphery of a room with said decorative trimming system comprising:

bracket means adapted to be secured to the walls of the room extending about a periphery thereof, said bracket means having first and second wall contacting surfaces oriented at an angle to each other, each of said wall contacting surfaces having a front edge, said bracket means further including a surface member extending between the front edges of said wall contacting surfaces at an angle thereto, said surface member having trim mounting means thereon intermediate said front edges of said wall contacting surfaces;
at least one prefabricated corner piece of decorative trim having a first leg and a second leg with said corner piece being adapted to extend around a corner of the room, each of said first and second legs of said corner piece having first and second wall engaging surfaces and a rear face extending between said wall engaging surfaces at an angle thereto corresponding to the angle of said surface member of said bracket means, said rear face having mounting means thereon intermediate said engaging surfaces adapted to engage said trim mounting means;
at least one substantially straight length of decorative trim having first and second wall engaging surfaces and a rear face extending between said engaging surfaces at an angle thereto corresponding to the angle of said surface member, said rear face having mounting means thereon intermediate said engaging surfaces adapted to engage said trim mounting means for mounting and securing said straight length of decorative trim abutting and extending from an end of said first leg of said corner piece;
whereby the bracket means can be secured to the walls of the room extending around a periphery thereof whereupon the corner piece can be mounted to the bracket means in a corner of the room and the straight length can be mounted to the bracket means extending from the corner piece to trim the room.

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