Wall mounting assembly

• US 4,920,708 A
• Filed: 05/05/1989
• Issued: 05/01/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tapco Products Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tapco Products Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Schiedegger, Charles E., MacLeod, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Scherbel, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/347,830
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 52/58, 52/60, 52/219, 52/211, 52/28, 248/915, 248/916, 362/145, 362/147, 98/32, 98/37, 98/121.1
• US Class Current: 52/60
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 1/006 of curvilinear outline
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 1/62 Tightening or covering joints between the border of openings and the frame or between contiguous framesE06B1/34 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/033 the surface being a wall or like vertical structure, e.g. building facade
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/02 Wall, ceiling, or floor bases; Fixing pendants or arms to the bases F21V21/08 takes precedence; bases for movable standing lamps F21V21/06
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/082 Grilles, registers or guards
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/915 with ornamentation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/916 Mechanical expedients, e.g. in supports

Abstract

A wall mounting bracket assembly comprising a one piece plastic body including a front wall, an integral peripheral wall extending from the front wall and an integral peripheral flange for attachment to a wall of a building. In use the body is mounted on the building and then siding is applied to the wall of the building and the edges of the siding are brought into closely adjacent relation to the peripheral wall of the body. A plastic flange member having an axial wall is telescoped over the peripheral wall of the body and until the flange engages the siding. The axial wall of the flange and the peripheral wall of the body having interengaging projections and recesses so that the flange is selectively locked in position.

Claims

1. A wall mounting bracket assembly comprising

a one-piece plastic body including an integral front wall,

an integral continuous peripheral wall extending from the front wall and

an integral continuous peripheral flange for attachment to a wall of a building, such that the body may be mounted on a building and then siding may be applied to the wall of the building and the edges of the siding brought into closely adjacent relation to said peripheral wall of the body, and

a removable plastic flange member including an integral laterally extending flange and having an integral continuous axial wall adapted to be telescoped over said peripheral wall of the body and until the flange of the flange member engages the siding,

said axial wall of said flange member and said peripheral wall of said body including interengaging means for selectively positioning the flange member at predetermined distances with respect to the integral flange of the body on the body to accommodate siding of varying thicknesses,

said interengaging means being provided at spaced positions along said continuous axial wall and said continuous peripheral wall.

2. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 1 wherein said interengaging means comprises interengaging projections and recesses.

3. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 2 wherein said interengaging projections and recesses are provided at diametrically opposed positions on the respective plastic body and plastic flange member.

4. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 3 wherein said projections are provided on the flange member and said recesses are provided on said plastic body.

5. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 2 wherein said interengaging projections and recesses are axially spaced.

6. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 5 wherein said projections are on said flange member and said recesses comprise grooves in said peripheral wall of said body.

7. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 1 wherein said front wall includes an outer surface and an inner surface, said inner surface including grooves therein forming lines of demarcation for cutting said wall to provide various openings.

8. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 7 wherein said grooves comprise spaced circular grooves and a rectangular groove.

9. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 1 wherein said front wall has an opening therein including spaced overlapping vanes pivoted in said opening to define a vent for use of said bracket assemblies to vent a clothes dryer and the like.

10. The wall mounting bracket assembly set forth in claim 1 including a plurality of plastic flange members having different configurations such that any one of the plastic flange members can be applied to the plastic body.