MOUNT WITH SEPARATE DEVICE INTERFACE

• US 20100327134A1
• Filed: 06/29/2010
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Evans Consoles Corporation (Evans Components Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Evans Consoles Corporation (Evans Components Incorporated)
• Inventors: LUNDRIGAN, SHANNON, Papic, Matko
• Granted Patent: US 8,282,058 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/220.31
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 47/02 made of metal only
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/046 adapted to upward-downward translation movement
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/06 allowing pivoting
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/022 repositionable
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/028 by positive interaction, e.g. male-female connections
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/75 having a joining piece extending through aligned openings in plural members

Abstract

The present invention relates to mounting devices, and in particular to a mount for mounting a device or other object on a suitable support structure such as a slatwall. In one embodiment, the mount comprises a support structure interface engageable with a support structure, the support structure interface comprising a base having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and at least one engagement member extending from the first side for engaging the support structure, and a mounting slot at the second side of the base. The mount further comprises a separate device interface comprising at least one male portion receivable into the mounting slot of the support structure interface and at least one connector portion connectable to a device that is to be mounted.

Claims

1. A mount for mounting a device on a support structure, the mount comprising:

a support structure interface engageable with the support structure, the support structure interface comprising;

a base having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and means for engaging the support structure on the first side; and

at least a first wall and a second wall opposite and spaced apart from the first wall, the at least first and second walls defining a mounting slot at the second side of the base and having at least an open top, the first wall being disposed between the at least one engagement member and the second wall, the second wall defining a slit providing communication between the mounting slot and an external environment of the mounting slot through the second wall, the slit extending in a longitudinal direction of the mounting slot from a top edge of the second wall adjacent the open top of the mounting slot; and

a device interface comprising;

at least one male portion receivable into the mounting slot through the open top, the male portion comprising a guide portion for engaging the slit of the mounting slot to guide and locate the male portion in the mounting slot; and

at least one connector portion connectable to the device.