Mounting bracket

• US 7,290,690 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2005
• Issued: 11/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Stearns, Inc. (Newell Brands Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Stearns, Inc. (Newell Brands Inc.)
• Inventors: Hancock, Dennis H.
• Primary Examiner(s): BASINGER, SHERMAN D
• Application Number:
  US11/047,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20060169192A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• Field of Search: 114/343, 224/406, 224/420, 224/441, 224/400, 224/401, 248/200, 248/205.1, 248/207, 248/214, 248/309.1, 248/316.8, 248/346.01, 248/346.03
• US Class Current: 224/441
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 25/002 for goods other than bulk goods detachable decks B63B25/18; palletised articles B63B25/22; frozen goods B63B25/26; deck loads B63B25/28
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 25/28 for deck loads

Abstract

A mounting bracket for securing one or a pair of article holders to a land or sea craft to facilitate the carrying of articles on the craft; the mounting bracket comprising a non-circular body with opposing flat surfaces and threaded holes extending centrally through the body; a V-notch at one end of the body extending into one flat face and holes through the body at opposite sides of the V-notch and a threaded bore in the end of the body remote from the V-notch; the threaded bores being adapted to reserve a shank of an article holder; and a channel member to fit co-operably over the non-circular body and to hold a pair of spaced apart article holders, while being secured to the body member by a bolt threaded into the body member.

Claims

1. A mounting bracket comprising

an elongate body member having a non-circular cross-section and opposed flat faces;

a V-notch formed in one face and adjacent one end of said body member;

a hole at each side of said V-notch and extending through said body member from said one face to an opposing flat face;

the hole at the side of the V-notch remote from the one end being interiorly threaded;

a threaded bore hole in the other end of the elongate body member; and

a hole through the body member from the one face to the opposite face and intersecting said threaded bore.

2. A mounting bracket as in claim 1, further comprising

a hasp having spaced apart threaded legs connected at one end;

said legs being spaced to fit through the holes formed at opposite sides of the V-notch and to straddle a support structure being straddled by said V-notch; and

nuts threaded into said legs of said hasp.

3. A mounting bracket as in claim 1 further comprising

bolts inserted through said hole adjacent said one of the body member at the side of the V-notch and the hole extending transverse through the body member from the one face to the opposite face and intersecting said threaded bore hole (to the bore hole through the other end of the body member).

4. A mounting bracket as in claim 1, further comprising

an elongate channel member having a pair of apart legs;

and

said legs each projecting from a web and said legs being spaced to straddle said channel member and having a hole through said web for a bolt inserted through the web and threaded into the threaded bore of said body member.

5. A mounting bracket as in claim 4, wherein

the channel member has an article holder fixed to and projecting from each end thereof.