Wall or ceiling mountable brackets for storing and displaying board-based recreational equipment

A mountable bracket for storing and displaying board-based recreational equipment, said bracket comprising:

• (a) a generally U-shaped body having an elongated front portion, an elongated rear portion and a spacer portion extending between and rigidly interconnecting said front and rear portions so as to hold said front and rear portions in a spaced apart relationship which forms an elongated channel therebetween being open at one end and along opposite sides and closed at an opposite end for receiving board-based recreational equipment in said channel between said front and rear portions and adjacent to said spacer portion, each of said front and rear portions having a pair of recesses formed therein which extend longitudinally between opposite ends of said front and rear portions and open at opposite longitudinal sides of said front and rear portions, each of said front and rear portions further having bracing structures disposed in said recesses for strengthening said front and rear portions;
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• (b) means on said body for providing access through said body to facilitate fastening said body to a support structure with said rear portion thereof located against the support structure, said access providing means being defined at least through said rear portion and through said spacer portion and segments of said front and rear portions aligned and connected to said spacer portion;
• (c) each of said front and rear portions of said body including
• (i) outer and inner walls each having longitudinally-extending opposite side edges, and
• (ii) an intermediate wall having opposite sides and being disposed between and spacing apart said outer and inner walls and rigidly connected and extending in a transverse relationship to said outer and inner walls at intermediate locations that extend between opposite ends of said outer and inner walls and are spaced from said opposite side edges of said outer and inner walls, said pairs of recesses in said front and rear portions of said body being defined between said outer and inner walls thereof at said opposite sides of said intermediate walls thereof.