Mirror mounting device

• US 4,283,038 A
• Filed: 09/19/1979
• Issued: 08/11/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Central Trading Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Central Trading Company Limited
• Inventors: Kurtz, Thomas D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schultz, William H.
• Application Number:
  US06/076,958
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 248/316 A, 248/476, 248/477, 248/478, 248/488
• US Class Current: 248/478
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/215 Mirror clamps

Abstract

A mirror mounting device comprising at least one mirror mounting bracket having a mounting plate portion and a mirror hook at one end of the mounting plate portion, and an elongated longitudinally channeled mounting strip having a lengthwise extending intermediate wall portion and flange portions along the lengthwise edges of the intermediate wall portion and outturned lip portions on the flange portions disposed in a plane parallel to but offset from the intermediate wall portion. The flange portions of the strip are formed with slots that register in a direction crosswise of the strip, and the mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket extends through the registering pair of slots in the flange portions and between the intermediate wall portion and the first and second lip portions for adjustment in a direction crosswise of the mounting strip.

Claims

1. A mirror mounting device comprising, at least one mirror mounting bracket having a mounting plate portion and a mirror hook at one end of the mounting plate portion, an elongated longitudinally channeled mounting strip having a lengthwise extending intermediate wall portion and first and second flange portions along the lengthwise edges of the intermediate wall portion extending laterally from one side of the intermediate wall portion and first and second outturned lip portions on the respective first and second flange portions disposed in a plane parallel to and offset from the intermediate wall portion a distance no less than the thickness of the mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket, the first and second flange portions of the strip having slots therein at corresponding locations therealong to provide at least one pair of slots that register in a direction crosswise of the strip, the mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket extending through the registering pair of slots in the first and second flange portions and between the intermediate wall portion and the first and second lip portions, and means including fastener receiving openings at spaced locations along the mounting strip for attaching the mounting strip to a wall.

2. A mirror mounting device according to claim 1 wherein said fastener receiving openings are in at least one of said lip portions.

3. A mirror mounting device according to claim 1 wherein said mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket is slidable through the registering pair of slots for adjustment in a direction crosswise of the strip.

4. A mirror mounting device according to claim 3 including means on said intermediate wall portion and on the mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket for releasably retaining the mirror mounting bracket in different adjusted positions.

5. A mirror mounting device according to claim 4 wherein said last mentioned means includes a row of detents on the itermediate wall portion and a resilient finger on the mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket engageable with said row of detents.

6. A mirror mounting device according to claim 1 wherein said mounting strip and said mounting plate portion of the mirror mounting bracket have openings therein adapted to register when the mounting plate portion is in a preselected position crosswise of the mounting strip, and fastener means extending through said registering openings for securing the mirror mounting bracket in a fixed position on the mounting strip.

7. A mirror mounting device comprising upper and lower longitudinally channeled mirror mounting strips each having a lengthwise extending intermediate wall portion and first and second flange portions along the lengthwise edges of the intermediate wall portion extending laterally from one side of the intermediate wall portion and first and second outturned lip portions of the respective first and second flange portions disposed in a plane parallel to and offset from the intermediate wall portion, at least one upper and one lower mirror mounting bracket each having a mounting plate portion and a mirror hook at one end of the mounting plate portion, the upper and lower mounting strips each having slots formed in the first and second flange portions thereof at corresponding locations therealong to provide pairs of slots that register in a direction crosswise of the respective strip, the mounting plate portion of the upper mirror mounting bracket slidably extending through the registering pair of slots in the upper mounting strip, means on the intermediate wall portion of the upper mounting strip and on the mounting plate portion of the upper mirror mounting bracket for releasably retaining the upper mirror mounting bracket in different positions crosswise of the upper mounting strip, the mounting plate portion of the lower mirror mounting bracket extending through the registering pair of slots in the lower mounting strip, means for securing the lower mirror mounting bracket in a preselected position on the lower mounting strip, and means including fastener receiving openings at spaced locations along the upper and lower mounting strips for mounting the strips on a wall.