Quick mounting device with modules

• US 8,025,528 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Issued: 09/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Benjamin J. Smith
• Original Assignee: Benjamin J. Smith
• Inventors: Smith, Benjamin J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Hien
• Application Number:
  US12/876,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20110177708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 439/537, 439/140, 439/313, 439/337, 439/673
• US Class Current: 439/537
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/024 by positive interaction, e.g. male-female connections
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/14 Fastening of cover or lid to box
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/16 structurally associated with support for line-connecting terminals within the box
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/185 Floor outlets and access cups
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/20 Ceiling roses or other lighting sets

Abstract

A quick mounting device for appliances that is quickly and easily engaged and disengaged mechanically without the use of tools and has at least one modular connection.

Claims

1. A quick mounting device for appliances, comprising a top assembly attachable to a support and a bottom assembly attachable to an appliance,

a. the top assembly further comprising a top plate with mounting slots, support pins, hook slots, and a first modular connector in between the mounting slots, the support pins and the hook slots;

wherein the mounting slots are positioned to mount the plate to the support, the support pins and the hook slots are securely fastened to the top assembly and project downward;

b. the bottom assembly comprising a bottom plate with mounting bolts;

hooks;

hook mounts with rivets and springs;

a cam plate with key slots having a wide end and a narrow end, an interior profile;

cam retaining pins, cam positioning tabs and a second modular connector in between the mounting bolts, the hooks, and the hook mounts;

wherein the mounting bolts secure the plate to the appliance;

the hook mounts are securely fastened to the bottom assembly;

the hooks are fastened to and pivot around the hook mounts by the rivets;

the springs rotate the hooks toward the periphery of the plate;

the retaining pins hold the cam in the plate and permit the cam to rotate in the plate;

the cam positioning tabs providing finger holds for rotating the cam;

the interior cam profile having three positions to permit the hooks to slide past the hook slots for engaging or retract towards the center for removal or expand towards the periphery for locking;

c. the assemblies engagable by positioning the cam in the engage position;

lifting the bottom assembly toward the top assembly such that the hooks slide past and then engage the hook slots and the support pins extend through the wide end of the cam key slots;

d. the assemblies lockable by rotating the cam to the locked position, thereby locking the support pins with the narrow end of the key slots and fully extending the hooks into the hook slots;

e. the modular connectors positioned to mate in between the top plate and the bottom plate when the top and bottom assemblies are brought together, the modular connectors are two modular connections;

f. thereby providing a mounting device that is quickly and easily engaged and disengaged mechanically and by at least one of the modular connections without the use of tools and furthermore has two mechanical engagement mechanisms.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein one of the cam tabs is a moving cam tab with a locking pin with spring and the lower plate includes three locking pin holes corresponding to an engage position, a lock position, and a release position;

the moving tab with locking pin positionable in any of the three locking pin holes and releasably locking the cam in the position.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the modular connections is selected from the group consisting of analog communication, digital communication, electrical power, gas, liquid, and the like.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the appliance is selected from the group consisting of residential appliance;

commercial/industrial appliances;

professional audio/video appliances;

trade show appliances;

movie, television, and theater production appliances;

food and beverage appliances; and

medical appliances.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the modular connections is a twist-lock connection incorporated in the cam plate.

6. The device of claim 1, further including an electrical current modification device in one of the assemblies.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the electrical current modification device is selected from the group consisting of converters, inverters, and transformers.