Adjustable hanger device
AssigneeSpectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.
InventorsSheldon H. Goodman, Omer I. Sazir
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Abstract
An adjustable hanger device includes an adjustable mounting bracket that may be sized for mounting the hanger to support members of various dimensions. The hanger device has a composite structure including both metallic and polymeric components. The mounting bracket is formed of primarily metallic components to provide adequate hang strength, and a thin profile for use in so-called over-the-door hanger devices supported on the top edge of a door below the lintel or frame member when the door is in the closed position.
Claims20
A hanger device for mounting a utility element to a structural support that includes a generally horizontal top side extending between first and second support sides, said hanger device including an adjustable bracket having a bridging element to be supported on said top side, said bridging element including a flat strip and an open channel that adjustably telescopically engage in a longitudinal first direction to provide said bridging element with a horizontal bridging dimension, said bridging element including a detent movable between a lock position for fixing the relative position of said flat strip and open channel and a release position for permitting relative movement of said flat strip and open channel to adjust said horizontal bridging dimension in said first direction, said detent including projections spaced in a lateral second direction transverse to said first direction on said open channel arranged to be received within openings laterally spaced in said second direction in said flat strip, said open channel having a top wall connecting depending side walls extending to in-turned channel flange walls, said separate projections being integrally formed in said channel top wall and extending perpendicularly away from said top wall into said open channel, said openings comprising spaced apertures having closed boundaries and being arranged in columns in said flat strip, said bridging element connecting a retention element arranged to depend downwardly along said first side of the structural support and a carrier element arranged to depend downwardly along said second side of the structural support, said retention element including a retention element polymeric portion for engaging said first side of said structural support, and said carrier element including a carrier element polymeric portion for engaging said second side of said structural support and for attachment of said utility element to said hanger.
A hanger device for mounting a utility element to a structural support that includes a generally horizontal top side extending between first and second structural support sides, said hanger device including an adjustable bracket having a mounting portion and a support portion, said mounting portion and said support portion respectively including engagement members that adjustably telescopically engage in a longitudinal first direction to form a bridging element arranged to be supported on said top side of the structural support and to provide said bridging element with a horizontal bridging dimension, said bridging element including a detent movable between a lock position for fixing the relative position of said first and second engagement members and a release position for permitting relative movement of said first and second engagement members to adjust said horizontal bridging dimension in said first direction, said detent including separate projections spaced in a lateral second direction transverse to said first direction on said second engagement member, said first engagement member including openings laterally spaced in said second direction for receiving said projections, said first engagement member including a flat strip and said second engagement member including an open channel for receiving said flat strip, said open channel having a top wall connecting depending side walls extending to in-turned channel flange walls, said separate projections being integrally formed in said channel top wall and extending perpendicularly away from said top wall into said open channel, said openings comprising spaced apertures having closed boundaries and being arranged in columns in said flat strip, said mounting portion engagement member also including a retention element arranged to depend downwardly along and flexibly engage said first side of the structural support, said support portion engagement member also including a carrier element arranged to depend downwardly along said second side of the structural support and to have said utility element affixed thereto.
A hanger device for mounting a utility element to a structural support that includes a generally horizontal top side extending between first and second structural support sides, said hanger device including an adjustable bracket having a mounting portion and a support portion, said mounting portion and said support portion respectively including a flat strip and a flat downwardly-opening C-shaped channel that adjustably telescopically engage in a longitudinal first direction to form a bridging element arranged to be supported on said top side of the structural support and to provide said bridging element with a horizontal bridging dimension extending in said first direction, a detent to adjustably fix the extent of engagement of said flat strip and flat channel, said detent being movable between a lock position for fixing the relative position of flat strip and flat channel and a release position for permitting relative movement of said flat channel and said flat strip to adjust said horizontal bridging dimension in said first direction, said detent including separate projections spaced in a lateral second direction transverse to said first direction on said flat channel for receipt within separate openings laterally spaced in said second direction in said flat strip, said flat channel having a top wall connecting depending side walls extending to in-turned channel flange walls, said separate projections being integrally formed in said channel top wall and extending perpendicularly away from said top wall into said open channel, said openings comprising spaced apertures having closed boundaries and being arranged in columns in said flat strip, said mounting portion engagement member also including a depending retention element having a polymeric portion, said retention element extending downwardly along and flexibly engaging said first side of the structural support with said polymeric portion of the retention element, said support portion engagement member also including a carrier element having a carrier element polymeric portion, said carrier element extending downwardly along said second side of the structural support with said carrier element polymeric portion engaging said second side of the structural support and integrally forming a part of said utility element.
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