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The disclosure relates to wall fixture devices and more particularly pertains to a new wall fixture device for mounting a wall fixture to a wall. The device includes a rigid disk and an adhesive layer that is bonded to the disk. The device includes a mounting bracket and a wall fixture. The adhesive layer is bonded to a wall and the mounting bracket is attached to the disk with threaded fasteners. The wall fixture is attached to the bracket thereby mounting the wall fixture to the wall.
The prior art relates to wall fixture devices including a wall fixture that includes a pair of plates that are mounted to wall and a pair of bracket that are each attachable to a respective plate. The prior art discloses a towel rack that includes a bracket with a triangular shape and a wall fixture that engages the bracket. The prior art discloses a wall fixture that includes a cup with a socket, a disk positionable on the cup and a bracket which engages the socket in the cup. The prior art discloses a modular towel bracket for mounting a towel bracket to a wall. The prior art discloses a wall mount including a mounting bracket, a fastener, a flange and a post which engages the flange.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a disk that is mountable to a wall. The disk is comprised of a rigid material thereby facilitating the disk to conceal damage on the wall without having the disk being deformed. An adhesive layer is bonded to the disk thereby facilitating the adhesive layer to adhesively engage the wall for retaining the disk on the wall. A mounting bracket is attachable to the disk and the mounting bracket has a pair of wings each angling away from the mounting bracket. A wall fixture is removably attachable to the mounting bracket for mounting the wall fixture to the wall.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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Each of the slots 22 has a bounding edge 19 and the rear surface 18 of the disk 12 has a pair of bevels 21 each extending along the bounding edge 19 of a respective one of the slots 22. Each of the bevels 21 accommodates an anchor 23 being embedded in with wall 14 thereby facilitating the disk 12 to be oriented on a plane being parallel to the wall 14. In this way the disk 12 can be positioned in a location that a wall fixture 25 was previously mounted without requiring the anchors 23 to be removed. The disk 12 may have a diameter of approximately 7.5 cm and each of the slots 22 may have a length of at least 12.5 mm and a width of at least 4.8 mm. The aperture 20 may have a diameter of at approximately 4.7 mm and each of the slots 22 may be spaced approximately 1.3 cm from the aperture 20.
An adhesive layer 24 is bonded to the disk 12 thereby facilitating the adhesive layer 24 to adhesively engage the wall 14 for retaining the disk 12 on the wall 14. The adhesive layer 24 has a first surface 26 and a second surface 28, and the first surface 26 is bonded to the rear surface 18 of the disk 12 having the adhesive layer 24 completely covering the rear surface 18. The adhesive layer 24 has an opening 30 that is aligned with and surrounds the aperture 20 and the slots 22. The opening 30 extends through the first surface 26 and the second surface 28 and the opening 30 is elongated such that the opening 30 has an ovoid shape. The second surface 28 adhesively engages the wall 14 when the disk 12 is positioned on the wall 14. The adhesive layer 24 may comprise double sided tape, for example, or other type of adhesive that can not only adhere to the rear surface 18 of the disk 12 but which also has a bonding strength sufficient to support the load of a towel bar, for example, or other type of load bearing wall fixture.
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In use, the disk 12 is positioned at a desired location on the wall 14 such that the adhesive layer 24 adhesively engages the wall 14. Furthermore, the disk 12 can be positioned at a location that was previously damaged by fasteners being pulled out of the wall 14. The mounting bracket 32 can be mounted to the disk 12 with the fasteners 38 and the wall fixture 25 can be attached to the mounting bracket 32. Furthermore, each of the fasteners 38 engages the disk 12 such that the disk 12 transfers the load of the fasteners 38 into the adhesive layer 24. In this way the wall fixture 25 can be mounted to the wall 14 in a manner that reduces the likelihood that the fasteners 38 will be pulled out of the wall 14. Furthermore, the disk 12 can cover the previous damage such that the previous damage does not need to be repaired to mount the wall fixture 25 to the wall 14.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
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