Mounting device

• US 5,035,389 A
• Filed: 08/20/1990
• Issued: 07/30/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shu-San Wang
• Original Assignee: Shu-San Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Shu-San
• Primary Examiner(s): CHIN SHUE, ALVIN C
• Application Number:
  US07/570,055
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 248/224.1, 248/224.2, 248/225.1, 248/223.4, 248/222.1, 248/221.4, 248/221.3
• US Class Current: 248/224.51
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 29/08 Holders for articles of personal use in general, e.g. brushes
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 1/09 Holders for drinking glasses, tooth brushes, hair brushes, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2201/02 Connections to a wall mounted support
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 21/088 the stud, pin or spigot being integrally formed with the component to be fastened, e.g. forming part of the sheet, plate or strip
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 3/00 Key-type connections; Keys F16B2/00 takes precedence; for rods or tubes mutually F16B7/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/041 Allowing quick release of the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle

Abstract

A mounting device includes a trapezoidal plate with a tapered top edge and a bottom edge. A pair of ribs project from the bottom edge. Each of the ribs has a first portion and a second portion, the latter each having an engaging member at its end. The second portions are resilient and separated from the plate. The mounting device also has an attached body attached to a receptacle. The attached body includes a pair of attaching members, each of which has a channel and a guiding path formed in-between the channels. The trapezoidal plate can be inserted into the guiding path of the attached body to engage the same by the engaging members of the ribs.

Claims

1. A mounting device mounted on a receptacle, comprising:

a trapezoidal plate having a tapered top edge and a bottom edge, a pair of ribs extending from said bottom edge toward said tapered top edge, each of said ribs including a first portion and a second portion, said second portion being resilient and seperated from said trapezoidal plate and each of said second portions having an engaging member formed at one end thereof;

an attached body attached to said receptacle and having a pair of attaching members, each having an edge facing the other, each of said attaching members having a channel along said edge adjacent a planar face of said receptacle which is adapted to let said trapezoidal plate slide in and to sandwich said plate between said channels while said engaging members of said second portions engage a top of said edges of the attaching members.

2. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said trapezoidal plate further comprises a plurality of holes through which a plurality of fixing means can pass to fasten said trapezoidal plate to a wall.

3. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fixing means are a plurality of screws.

4. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pair of ribs are slightly convergent, and wherein a shoulder is formed where said first portion is connected to said second portion.

5. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pair of ribs is connected by an enforcing rib, said enforcing rib fitting snugly between said channels of said attaching members.

6. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the length of said first portion is greater than that of said second portion.

7. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second portions are connected by an enforcing rib.

8. A mounting device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the thickness of said first portion is greater than that of said second portion so that when said trapezoidal plate is inserted into said channels of said attaching members, a clearance remains between said second portions and said wall.

9. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said trapezoidal plate has an emptied space underneath each of said second portions.

10. A mounting device as claimed claim 1, wherein said pair of ribs attaching members are integrally formed with said trapezoidal plate, and said attaching members being secured to said receptacle.

11. A mounting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said trapezoidal plate further comprises an enforcing rib at said tapered top edge thereof.