Title: Handrail support hardware

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1. In combination with a handrail and a vertical support therefor, a handrail support assembly comprising,

a pair of essentially identical bracket members, one of said members adapted to be mounted to said support and the other to said handrail,

each of said bracket members having a mounting plate and an arm extending outwardly from said mounting plate intermediate the ends thereof,

said arms having mating serrations defined thereon in the direction of the handrails,

elongated slots in said arms perpendicular to said serrations adapted to receive a clamping means therethrough whereby the arms are positioned to uniformly predetermine the distance of the handrail from the support and the arms are held in compressive engagement with said mating serrations intermeshed,

and means in each mounting plate on either side of the arm for securing each plate to one of the handrail and the support whereby the mounting plate is secured on either side of the arm, said means including slots elongated in the direction of the handrail in at least one of said members.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein the member not having slots elongated in the direction of the handrail has slots elongated in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the handrail.

Other info:

Inventors: Laribee, Ralph S. (Plantsville, CT, US)

Application Number: 835485
Filing Date: 1977-09-22
Publication_date: 1980-01-01
Assignee: Leigh Products, Inc. (Coopersville, MI)
Primary Class(es): 256/67 403/108, 403/287
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1056576	Mar, 1913	Olson	403/393.
2590929	Apr, 1952	Bush	256/21.
4070835	Jan, 1978	Reverend et al.	52/235.

Other Refs: 24370732439267

Feb, 1976	DE
Feb, 1976	DE

Primary Examiner: Schroeder, Werner H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: DeLio and Montgomery