Speaker support frame

A speaker assembly for association with a preformed aperture in a wall board and for recessed mounting of a speaker, the assembly comprising:

• (A) a speaker having a housing;
• (B) a one-piece, unitary, molded frame body having a front side and a back side and also having:
• (1) an open central region for receiving therethrough body portions of the speaker housing,
• (2) a flattened perimeter region extending about the open central region the perimeter region having a front side adapted for making abutting engagement with the speaker housing,
• (3) a shoulder region upstanding frontally from and extending peripherally about the perimeter region, the shoulder region being adjacent to the speaker housing,
• (4) an outwardly turned collar region extending peripherally about the shoulder region, the collar region adjusted for contacting the exterior side of the wall board adjacent the preformed aperture,
• (5) a plurality of orifice means that are individually located in the collar region at perimetrically spaced intervals about and adjacent to the shoulder region, and
• (6) a plurality of stop means, one stop means being adjacent each orifice means;
• (C) a plurality of leg members, one for each of the orifice means, each leg member having a proximal portion and a distal portion;
• (D) a plurality of screw means, one for each of the orifice means, each screw means extending through a different one of the orifices and threadably engaging the proximal portion of a different one of the leg members, so that, when the frame body is positioned in the preformed aperture, each one of the screw means can be rotated to pivot its associated leg member outwardly into abutting engagement with the adjacent stop means and with the leg member distal portion yieldingly engaging the interior side of the wall board, thereby clamping the wall board between the leg members and transversely adjacent portions of the collar region;
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• (E) a cover plate for the assembly, the cover plate having a perforated grill-like central portion covering at least a substantial portion of the speaker and means for disengagingly attaching the cover plate to the frame body.

A speaker support frame structure for association with a preformed aperture in a wall board or the like and for recessed mounting of a speaker, the frame structure comprising:

• (A) a one-piece, unitary, molded frame body having a front side and a back side and also having:
• (1) a collar region adapted for attachment with a speaker and extending peripherally about the associated speaker, the collar region adapted for contacting the exterior side of the wall board adjacent the preformed aperture, and
• (2) a plurality of orifice means that are individually located in the collar region at perimetrically spaced intervals;
• (B) a plurality of leg members, one for each of the orifice means, each leg member having a proximal portion and a distal portion;
• (C) a plurality of screw means, one for each of the orifice means, each screw means extending through one of the orifices and threadingly engaging the proximal portion of one of the leg members so that when the frame body is positioned in the preformed aperture, each screw means can be rotated to pivot its associated leg member outwardly into abutting engagement between the distal portion thereof and the interior side of the wall board, thereby clamping the wall board between the leg members and transversely adjacent portions of the collar region;
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• (D) the front side of the frame, the speaker, and the pluralities of orifices and screw means being adapted to disengagingly mount a cover thereover;
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• the wall board being provided with a first abutment means, and a cover being provided for the front side of the frame, the associated speaker, and the pluralities of orifices and screw means, the cover having a second abutment means, the first and second abutment means are adapted to disengagingly connect with one another so that the cover is mountable against the wall board.