Low profile adjustable lift bracket

• US 8,955,288 B1
• Filed: 03/28/2014
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Timothy Snyder
• Original Assignee: Timothy Snyder
• Inventors: Snyder, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Herring, Brent W
• Application Number:
  US14/228,361
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 527/452.1, 52/73, 522/231, 522/231.4, 521/261, 521/265, 521/267, 248/235, 248/241, 248/242, 248/220.21, 248/250, 248/243
• US Class Current: 52/745.21
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/061 Cantilever brackets

Abstract

A concealable cantilever support has a first leg extending from an outward end to an inward end, and near its inward end at least one adjusting hole; and a second leg orthogonal to the first leg, and integrally joined at an inward end thereof to the inward end of the first leg, inward faces of the first and second legs facing each other without intervening material. A portion of the first leg distal from the adjusting hole is restrained flat to the hidden face of the wall, the second leg protrudes from a roomward face of the wall with its outward face upward and orthogonal to the wall, a portion of the first leg adjacent the adjusting hole is free to flex away from the hidden face of the wall by actuation of an adjusting screw inserted through the adjusting hole.

Claims

1. A method for supporting a load cantilevered from a wall, said method comprising:

mounting a bracket to a first surface of said wall, with a lower end of said bracket fastened to said first surface, an upper leg of said bracket protruding from said first surface to beyond an opposite second surface of said wall, and an adjusting screw of said bracket contacting said first surface at a location between said lower end and said upper leg;

turning the adjusting screw of the bracket to press against the first surface of said wall, in order to upwardly deflect the upper leg of the bracket, thereby raising the outward end of the upper leg above a horizontal plane; and

placing the load onto the upper leg of the bracket.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the adjusting screw is turned to raise the outward end of the upper leg such that placing the load deflects the upper leg downward to be in a substantially horizontal plane.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the adjusting screw is turned to raise the outward end of the upper leg such that placing the load does not deflect the upper leg below the horizontal plane.