Single-bolt bar-bracket mount
AssigneeFleet Engineers, Inc.
InventorTimothy R. Hawes
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Abstract
The invention relates to a bracket-mounting assembly for mounting a bar bracket to a vehicle frame, the bar bracket being adapted to carry vehicle accessories such as a mudflap. The bracket-mounting assembly attaches to a vehicle frame via a single bolt passed through a penetration in the vehicle frame and threadably connected to the bracket-mounting assembly by a central threaded hole in the bracket-mounting assembly. The bracket-mounting assembly further includes a generally vertically-oriented shaft opening for receiving a portion of the bar bracket and supporting the bar bracket with respect to the vehicle frame. The bracket-mounting assembly includes a rotation-resisting connector for inhibiting rotation of the bracket-mounting assembly relative to the vehicle frame about the axis of the bolt.
Claims7
In combination with a mudflap bar bracket adapted to mount a mudflap, the mudflap bar bracket having a horizontal portion adapted to mount a mudflap and a vertical portion;
- a bracket-mounting assembly for mounting the mudflap bracket to a vehicle frame, the bracket-mounting assembly comprising:
- a body having a frame-mounting portion and a bracket-mounting portion;
- the frame-mounting portion having a frame face at one side of the frame-mounting portion adapted to abut the vehicle frame and a tapped lateral hole transverse to the frame face;
- the bracket-mounting portion having a vertically-extending shaft opening extending at least a portion of the way through the bracket-mounting portion for removably mounting the mudflap bracket;
- a bolt threadably received in the tapped lateral hole in the frame-mounting portion for securing the body to the frame;
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- at least one rotation-resisting pin mounted in at least one well in the frame-mounting portion, spaced from the tapped lateral hole, and having a pointed end projecting from the frame face for gripping a surface of the vehicle frame to resist relative rotation of the body with respect to the vehicle frame.
A bracket-mounting assembly for mounting a mudflap bracket to a vehicle frame, comprising:
- a body having a frame-mounting portion and a bracket-mounting portion;
- the frame-mounting portion having a frame face at one side of the frame-mounting portion adapted to abut the vehicle frame and a tapped lateral hole transverse to the frame face;
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- the bracket-mounting portion having a vertically-extending shaft opening extending at least a portion of the way through the bracket-mounting portion for removably mounting the mudflap bracket;
- a bolt threadably received in the tapped lateral hole in the frame-mounting portion for securing the body to the frame;
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- at least one pin mounted in at least one well in the frame-mounting portion, spaced from the lateral hole, and having a pointed end projecting from the frame face for gripping a surface of the vehicle frame to resist relative rotation of the body with respect to the vehicle frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.