Frame hanging and joining device

• US 4,568,055 A
• Filed: 10/28/1983
• Issued: 02/04/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David Klitzky
• Original Assignee: David Klitzky
• Inventors: Klitzky, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Britts, Ramon S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US06/546,374
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 248/496, 248/495, 248/476, 248/477, 248/208, 248/220.1, 40/152.1
• US Class Current: 248/496
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/10 Corner clips or corner-connecting appliances for frames
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/102 having an aperture to receive a fastener to connect to a frame member
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/162 Picture members for connection to a conventional wall hook or nail

Abstract

An improved frame hanging and joining device comprising a bracket having a platform with teeth that engage a nail or screw protruding from a wall to support a frame on the wall, hold the frame together and provide for height adjustment of one end of the frame with respect to the other.

Claims

1. An improved frame hanging and joining system for integrating frame components into a formed frame apparatus and for mounting and displaying said resulting frame apparatus on a substantially vertical wall through the use of one or more of hanging-joining devices in operable cooperation with one or more wall pin members protruding from said wall comprising:

bracket means having a front face and a rear face and a first and second side;

said bracket means further having a first end portion second end portion;

frame component means having a rearward attachment surface for accepting, in a restrained adjoining fashion, attachment of said bracket means therealong,

said rear face of said bracket means being operably attachable to said adjoining rearward attachment surface of said frame component means, at said first and second sides of said bracket means, respectively, through bracket affixation means in one or more of said bracket means and frame component means;

said front face of said bracket means being operably attachable to said wall through wall attachment means for operably mounting said frame thereon interposed between said wall and said bracket means;

said wall attachment means including position compensation means operably associated therewith to compensate for discrepancies in the heights of one or more of said protruding wall pin members positioned in said wall;

said bracket means, said bracket affixation means, said wall attachment means and said compensation means cooperating with each other and in turn with said protruding wall pin members to provide for affixation and display of said frame apparatus at a desired elevation and orientation upon said wall while allowing for compensation for height discrepancies between said successive protruding pin members; and

one or more of said devices being affixable to said frame apparatus at the adjoining position of said rearward attachment surface of said frame component means so as to be capable of joining said frame components, towards mounting said frame apparatus on said wall by engagement and resting of said wall attachment means upon said one or more protruding wall pin members and further cooperating with said compensation means to allow for correction of differences in elevation between said opposite ends so as to permit manual adjustment thereupon.

2. The improved frame hanging and joining device of claim 1 wherein said bracket means further comprises:

a substantially "L"-shaped bracket member having a configuration substantially conforming to the configuration of a portion of said corresponding adjoining frame component means and serving to maintain said frame apparatus in said joined arrangement;

said bracket affixation means comprising a rearwardly facing substantially continuous flanged channel in said frame component means'"'"' rearward attachment surface for telescopically accepting remaining ones of said bracket affixation means,

said remaining ones of said bracket affixation means including affixation members at said first and second end portions on said bracket member which are capable of being slidingly and telescopically received by and into aligned respective ones of said frame component means'"'"' flanged channel;

said wall attachment means being operably affixed to said bracket member at said first and second end portions along said front face of said bracket means so as to integrate said bracket means and said wall attachment means towards positioning said wall attachment means between said wall and said bracket means.

3. The apparatus as described in claim 1 wherein said bracket means comprise:

a bracket member having a configuration substantially conforming to the configuration of a portion of said corresponding adjoining frame components and serving to maintain said frame apparatus in said joined arrangement;

said bracket affixation means including first and second portions of said bracket which fit over portions of said rearward attachment surface in said frame component means so as to be restrainably affixed thereto; and

said wall attachment means being operably affixed to said bracket member at ends of said first and second portions along said front face of said bracket means so as to integrate said bracket means and said wall attachment means towards positioning said wall attachment means between said wall and said bracket means.

4. The apparatus as recited in claim 2 wherein said bracket member is comprised of two segments orthogonally joined so as to form said substantially "L" shaped bracket member for cooperation with said respective adjacent frame component means'"'"' rearward attachment surfaces for simultaneous formation of a substantially orthogonal corner of said frame apparatus at said joinder of same.

5. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein said affixation means further comprises one or more threaded fastener members passing through said bracket means for fixed receipt by a corresponding orifice in the rearward attachment surface of said frame component means.

6. The apparatus as recited in claim 3 wherein said bracket member is comprised of two segments orthogonally joined so as to form a top bracket portion and depending flanges affixed thereto for cooperation with said respective adjacent rearward attachment surface of said frame component means for simultaneous formation of a substantially orthogonal corner of said frame apparatus at said joinder of same.

7. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein said wall attachment means comprises:

a platform member spanning diagonally from said first end to said second end of said bracket means and which is securely attached thereto at said first and second ends;

said platform member having a plurality of teeth along the periphery of one of its diagonal edges, ranging from a lower most tooth to an upper most tooth, so as to engage and rest upon one or more of said pin members protruding from said wall as desired;

any of said plurality of teeth being capable of engaging and resting upon any of said protruding pin members so as to alter the elevation on said wall of said bracket means upwardly or downwardly by engaging a tooth more proximate said upper most tooth or said lower most tooth;

the vertical distance between said upper most tooth and said lower most tooth of said platform member defining the range of possible alteration of said elevation bracket means on said wall; and

said platform member and said protruding pin members on said wall cooperating to in turn position said bracket means and in turn said end of said frame to said wall at any desired elevation within said range of alteration.

8. The apparatus as recited in claim 7 wherein said wall attachment means further comprises:

spacer means are interposed at said first and second ends between said platform member and said bracket so as to provide a clearance space from said frame to in turn permit said platform member to more closely engage one or more of said protruding pin members and mount said frame on said wall, as well as to permit sliding receipt of said bracket means ends within said adjoining ones of said frame components.

9. The apparatus as recited in claim 8 wherein said platform member diagonally spanning between said ends of said bracket means is adjustable along its diagonal position to raise and lower the position of said teeth to accomodate, in a facilitated manner, extreme adjustments in the position of said frame apparatus by varying, to a greater degree, said range of possible alteration.

10. The apparatus as recited in claim 5 wherein said threaded fastener members comprise threaded screw members.

11. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein:

said frame component means comprise a plurality of substantially straight members fitting together in a substantially orthogonal configuration;

said bracket means overlapping and joining together adjacent ones of said straight members at a position proximate to the corners of said frame apparatus so as to maintain said frame apparatus in an assembled rigid fashion while simultaneously providing means for the adjustable positioning and mounting of said apparatus on said wall.