Bracket Interengaging Portion Includes Open Slot Patents (Class 248/225.11)
  • Patent number: 6227400
    Abstract: An ashtray assembly ashtray assembly adapted to be fixedly mounted to a wall of a building having a tube-like ashtray with a projection and an alignment fin, a locking nut, and a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket has an elongated vertical slot through it sized to receive the ashtray projection and a coaxial elongated slot on its back surface sized to receive the locking nut. An alignment slot is located on the top surface of the mounting bracket. The projection is inserted through the first elongated vertical slot from the front surface of the mounting bracket and the locking nut is positioned over the projection from the rear surface of the mounting bracket and into the second elongated vertical slot. The assembly is then mounted to a wall or structure. In use, the alignment fin is in the alignment slot to prevent rotation of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventor: Mark Paladino
  • Patent number: 6220461
    Abstract: A slant shelf system features a slatwall with slats separated by grooves. Each groove contains two or more channels. An adapter clip features two or more slits and a lip sized to engage the channels. A shelf features side, front and rear walls. The rear wall includes a flange attached to its upper end. Tabs extend down from the flange and are sized to engage the slits of the adapter clips. By selectively positioning the lip of the adapter clips in the channels of the slatwall and the tabs of the shelf into the slits of the adapter clip, the shelf may be mounted at various tilt angles with respect to the slatwall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: L.A. Darling Company
    Inventor: Robert P. Dickinson
  • Patent number: 6192645
    Abstract: An angle bracket for joining two section bars has a relatively great stability, especially for use for partitions and safety walls. This stability is achieved by supporting walls that join the two legs of an angle bracket to one another and have an outwardly rounded outside contour. This design is relatively simple and inexpensive to implement and allows these angle brackets to be compatible with known designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Benz, Joerg Walther, Johannes Koban, Olaf Klemd, Armin Breitenbücher
  • Patent number: 6179267
    Abstract: A mount for a baby mirror for viewing a baby in a baby seat placed on a back seat of a motor vehicle in a rearwardly facing position. The mount includes one of the fasteners for securing the headliner of the vehicle to a roof panel. The mirror has a housing formed with a slot in the top surface. The slot is of inverted T-shape. The slot is open at the rear of the housing to permit the head of the fastener to enter the wide portion of the slot and the shank to enter the narrow portion. The mirror housing is thus suspended from the fastener. In another embodiment, the housing has a U-shaped clip received in a groove in the housing. The legs of the clip straddle the shank of the fastener and the body of the clip is clamped between the head of the fastener and the headliner. The mirror may be detached by separating the housing from the clip and leaving the clip assembled with the fastener, or the entire housing and clip may be removed from the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Kent E. Johnston