US 8,573,545 B2Granted

Mounting bracket means for solar arrays and the like

AssigneeHolm-Quist Designs LLC

InventorsSteven D. Walquist, Sterling C. Holmes

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Abstract

A mounting bracket arrangement for fastening a solar array to a vertical support pipe, including a generally horizontal support disk seated transversely across the pipe end to close the interior thereof, and a pair of parallel vertical bracket plates having corresponding lower edge portions each containing pairs of parallel vertical slots that define a center section and a pair of side sections. The vertical bracket plates are arranged normal to the horizontal support plate such that the center sections extend into the pipe interior via horizontal linear openings contained in the horizontal plate, and the side sections extend longitudinally externally of the horizontal support plate for connection by external fastener devices. The solar array is pivotally connected between the upper portions of the vertical bracket plates for angular adjustment relative to the support pipe.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A mounting bracket arrangement for fastening an object to a support member, comprising:

(a) a generally vertical support member (6) having an upper end portion containing a longitudinal chamber (C);
(b) a generally horizontal planar transverse support plate (10) seated transversely across said vertical support member upper end portion to close said longitudinal chamber, said transverse support plate containing a pair of parallel horizontal linear openings (12) opposite said chamber;
(c) a pair of parallel vertical planar rectangular bracket plates (16) having corresponding lower edge portions each containing a pair of parallel linear vertical slots (18) that define a center section (16a) and a pair of side sections (16b), said vertical bracket plates being arranged normal to said transverse support plate such that:
(1) said center sections extend into said chamber via said horizontal linear openings, respectively;
and
(2) said side sections extend longitudinally externally of said vertical support member;
and
(d) fastener means (20) connecting together said pair of side sections of one vertical bracket plate with corresponding side sections of the other vertical bracket plate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/190,206Filed 25 Jul 2011
Published: US 2013/0026308 A131 Jan 2013
Granted: 5 Nov 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H02S 20/00
Supporting structures for pv modules
F24S 25/13
Extending in directions away from a supporting surface: profile arrangements, e.g. trusses
F24S 25/65
Fixation means, e.g. fasteners, specially adapted for supporting solar heat collector modules: for coupling adjacent supporting elements, e.g. for…
F24S 25/70
Arrangement of stationary mountings or supports for solar heat collector modules: with means for adjusting the final position or orientation of…