Equipment mounting bracket for steel truss

• US 9,322,509 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2012
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chris Newhouse
• Original Assignee: Chris Newhouse
• Inventors: Newhouse, Chris
• Primary Examiner(s): Duckworth, Bradley
• Application Number:
  US14/358,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20140332650A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/027 Ceiling supports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

The truss mounting bracket simplifies installation of electronic type equipment below fabricated trusses commonly used in warehouse and other buildings. The mounting bracket includes a housing having at one end thereof a structure for connecting with an electrical conduit section. The opposite end of the housing is adapted to allow securement below a fabricated truss. A head portion extends from a center portion of the housing and has a thread connection therewith. The head portion engages the truss and allows the housing to be tightened against the lower surface of the truss. The conduit and the housing allow electrical cables to pass through the conduit and at least partially through the housing.

Claims

1. A mounting bracket comprising:

a housing;

said housing having a generally planar mount surface and a tubular sleeve opposite said mount surface;

said mount surface having an opening therein configured to receive a threaded suspending member,

said tubular sleeve having an open end configured to receive an electrical conduit;

said housing including a threaded port in registration with the opening, the threaded port having a fixed, non-rotatable orientation relative to the housing and configured to receive the threaded suspending member;

said mount surface and said threaded port being configured so that rotation of the housing about the threaded suspending member rotates the mount surface;

the housing having at least one cable port defined therein, the at least one cable port communicating through the housing with the open end of the tubular sleeve.

2. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 1, wherein said threaded port is formed in a center mount area of said mount surface and is in registration with, and axially parallel to, said tubular sleeve.

3. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 2, further comprising the threaded suspending member, the threaded suspending member including a threaded shank received in and engaging said threaded port, said threaded suspending member including a hook portion at one end thereof sized to pass through a gap between two lower chord members of a fabricated steel truss and engage one of the lower chord members.

4. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 3, wherein said one end of said threaded suspending member is defined by said hook portion, said hook portion being integral with said shank.

5. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 4, wherein said threaded suspending member is J-shaped.

6. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 4, wherein said hook portion is to one side of a longitudinal axis of said shank.

7. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 3, wherein said threaded shank includes at one end thereof a T-shaped head that defines said hook portion.

8. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one cable port is formed through said mount surface.

9. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing is hollow and said at least one cable port is formed through a side wall of said housing extending between said mount surface and said tubular sleeve.

10. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 2, wherein said center mount area is supported by at least two spaced-apart arms, each cable port being located between adjacent ones of said arms.

11. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 10, wherein said at least two spaced-apart arms are three spaced-apart arms defining three ovoid cable ports therebetween.

12. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing includes a frusto-conical portion extending between said mount surface and said tubular sleeve, said frusto-conical portion narrowing from said mount surface to said tubular sleeve.

13. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing is an integral casting.

14. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 1, wherein a threaded stop bolt passes through a threaded aperture in said tubular sleeve, said threaded stop bolt being configured to engage said electrical conduit by pressing against said electrical conduit while said electrical conduit is positioned in said tubular sleeve.

15. A mounting bracket as claimed in claim 14, in combination with said electrical conduit and a surveillance camera.

16. A mounting bracket in said combination as claimed in claim 15, wherein said surveillance camera includes an electrical harness passing through said electrical conduit and through one of said at least one cable port to pass through a lower chord of a roof truss.