Supports – Brackets – Specially mounted or attached
Patent
1990-02-28
1992-05-05
Ramirez, Ramon O.
Supports
Brackets
Specially mounted or attached
248683, A47G 117
Patent
active
051100770
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention concerns a process for supporting objects with various uses, for example shelves, clothes hooks, containers, advertising objects, etc., to a smooth surface, for example the surface of a sheet of glass in a shop window or a domestic wall covered with smooth ceramic tiles, using a plastic sheet having an adhesive coating on one side. This same invention also concerns a manufactured article which is used in said process.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
In order to assure the adherence of an object to a smooth surface one generally has to use pressure adhesive (or self-adhesive). This solution, which is suitable for sticking a flexible plastic label to the glass of a window, is not suitable for anchoring a rigid, flat supporting base to the smooth surface of a wall.
At present in order to stick a rigid body--for example the base of a clothes hook--to a smooth surface one has to use a felt square (or a pad made of foamed plastic), covered with adhesive, which is placed between the wall and the resting surface of said body. However, the felt square covered with adhesive, apart from making the joint between the object and the wall cumbersome, has the inconvenience of providing an anchorage which is not always secure, since it can break off from the wall due to the considerable elastoplastic deformations.
Finally, it is superfluous to recall the difficulties of using suction cups.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,300,164 describes a support device for adhesive application to a surface comprising a thin walled flexible plastic sheet having an adhesive coating on one side and a support member, in particular a split ring, secured to the plastic sheet by a rivet. With this solution high stresses are induced in the contact area between the rivet and the plastic sheet, which stresses cause deformations of the plastic sheet and the breakaway of the rivet therefrom.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
The aim of the invention is therefore to provide the possibility of supporting, in a practical and secure way, any object, fixing it to smooth surfaces.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The above aim has been reached, according to the features recited in the appended claims, by providing a manufactured article obtained by thermoforming of a plastic sheet, appropriately shaped so as to have a three-dimensional, rigid central part apt to support an object and a flexible peripheral part, which will be covered with adhesive, for fixing to a wall.
Preferably, the rigid central part of the manufactured article is shaped so as to receive the object to be supported.
The rigidity of the central part can be obtained by molding the central part so as to acquire a three-dimensional shape. Possibly the rigidity can be increased by the addition or inclusion of other rigid elements.
The shape of this central part depends on its function, for instance a shelf supporting objects or a frame holding a mechanism.
The flexibility of the peripheral part of the manufactured article is obtained by adapting said part to the surface to which the object must be fixed, i.e. generally to a flat, or slightly convex or concave surface. The flexibility of the peripheral part is increased by providing a suitably small thickness. The thickness of this part must be small enough to provide flexibility, however not so small to invalid the rigidity of the central part and the mechanical resistance of the manufactured article.
In conformity with the invention, the peripheral part covered with adhesive can either be made of more separate parts which are not connected to each other, for example tongues, which jut out from the rigid part, or else can be a single continuous peripheral frame.
An adhesive means can be spread, or else a double-sided adhesive film, available on the market, can be applied to the peripheral part of the manufactured article replacing the pressure adhesive.
In conformity with the invention, the manufactured article is applied to a smooth wall in the desired position so as to stick to said wall by means of the adhesive covering the
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