Flag or banner pole support bracket

• US 4,593,877 A
• Filed: 10/07/1983
• Issued: 06/10/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harry L. Van Der Wyk
• Original Assignee: Harry L. Van Der Wyk
• Inventors: van der Wyk, Harry L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Assistant Examiner(s): OLSON, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US06/539,811
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 248/511, 248/512, 248/513, 248/518-520, 248/523, 248/534-535, 248/538, 248/540, 248/541, 248/207, 248/219.3, 248/231, 403/389, 403/391
• US Class Current: 248/512
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 12/32 Flagpoles

Abstract

A flag pole bracket is disclosed for attachment to a flat surface or a cylindrical pole. The bracket includes a body with a plurality of openings therein to support flag poles at different angles relative to each other. The bracket also includes screw holes for mounting to a flat surface, and transverse strap receiving openings to receive straps mounted around a cylindrical pole.

Claims

1. A mounting bracket for mounting on a support surface and for holding one or more supported objects such as a cylindrical pole in a variety of positions comprising:

and elongated body including a base portion and an upstanding body portion;

said base portion and upstanding body portion defining a generally inverted T shape;

said base portion for mounting said bracket on a supporting surface;

said upstanding portion including a plurality of intersecting openings therein at different relative angles with respect to said base portion;

said openings being dimensioned to receive supported objects such as cylindrical poles therein with a supported object which may be mounted by said bracket positioned by the wells defining one opening and extendable into at least part of the remaining openings of said body whereby common object supporting usage of the volume making up the body of the mounting bracket results;

at least one of said openings extending generally parallel to the length of said elongated body;

means for securing such supported objects within respective openings, said base portion including mounting holes therein for directly mounting said base portion on a support surface and transverse strap receiving openings therethrough to allow strap mounting thereof.

2. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 1 wherein said elongated body is a solid block of metal except for said openings and said cylindrical pole receiving openings intersect within said solid block of metal and extend at least partially through at least one of the other of said cylindrical pole receiving openings.

3. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 2 wherein said solid block of metal is extruded aluminum.

4. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 1 wherein one of said openings extends completely through said body in the direction of its elongation whereby one supported object may extend out of opposite ends of said bracket and support flags or banners at opposite ends of said bracket.

5. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 1 wherein one of said openings extends normal to the mounting surface of said base portion, intersects and extends into at least one of said other openings,

whereby said upstanding portion provides sufficient depth to support an object in said normal opening and

whereby a flag or banner may be supported from an object extending normal to the length of said bracket.

6. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 1 wherein said body defines transverse strap receiving openings extending transverse to the direction of elongation of said body in the region of said upstanding body portion;

and including strap fastening means for mounting said bracket;

whereby said mounting bracket is mounted by said strap fastening means extending through said transverse strap receiving openings with said strap fastening means in broad area contact with said body generally at the base of said inverted T.

7. The combination in accordance with claim 6 including a pair of such transverse strap receiving openings at opposite ends of said elongated body.

8. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 7 wherein said transverse strap receiving openings are exposed at the ends of said elongated body;

elongated strap fastening means dimensioned to encircle a support surface and to fit in said transverse strap receiving openings;

whereby said strap fastening means may be inserted within said transverse strap receiving openings from the ends of said body and said transverse strap receiving openings include at least one generally planar surface for broad area contact between the body and said strap fastening means passing through said transverse strap receiving openings.

9. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 1 wherein said base portion includes a recess therein extending the length of said base portion whereby said base portion may be secured to a cylindrical or convex surface with the base portion having at least a pair of spaced regions of contact rather than a single line of tangency.

10. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 9 wherein said base portion includes a pair of transverse strap receiving openings therethrough, and said transverse strap receiving openings receive said strap means adapted to encircle a cylindrical or convex surface and secure said mounting bracket to such surface.

11. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 10 wherein said transverse strap receiving openings are located at the opposite end regions of said body and each transverse strap receiving opening is open at the end of said body and extends through the sides of said body whereby said strap means is adapted to loosely encircle a cylindrical or convex surface and is inserted in the slots in said body from the respective ends thereof and the strap means are adapted to hold said mounting bracket securely against the cylindrical or convex surface.

12. A mounting bracket in accordance with claim 9 wherein said recess comprises a pair of surfaces of different radii of curvature whereby said bracket may be secured to cylindrical or curved surfaces of different diameters with greater surface contact than in the case of a rectangular recess.