Patent ID: 6131213
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
A grab bar structure for mounting on a structural wall, comprising in combination:two spacedly opposed L-shaped brackets each having coplanar wall arms interconnecting perpendicularly extending bar fastening arms, said wall arms having means for structural interconnection with a supporting wall and said bar fastening arms extending in parallel orientation from the wall arms and each bar fastening arm defining a fastener pin hole;an elongate fixed bar having means for structural interconnection between the bar fastening arms of the L-shaped brackets spacedly distant from the wall arms; anda U-shaped foldable bar having a medial body interconnecting spaced parallel inner legs pivotally carried by the bar fastening arms of the L-shaped brackets with the medial body extending spacedly distant from the L-shaped brackets, said U-shaped foldable bar having:a medial channel defined in each inner leg,a fastening pin hole defined in each inner leg to communicate from the medial channel through the inner leg and pivot into coincidence with the fastener pin hole defined in the bar fastening arm of the adjacent L-shaped brackets,a release pin hole defined in the each inner leg spacedly outwardly of the bar fastening arm of the adjacent L-shaped bracket, to communicate from the medial channel through the inner leg, andfastener means carried in the medial channel defined in each inner leg, each fastening means havinga fastening pin projecting radially outwardly through the fastening pin hole for releaseably fastenable positioning in the fastening pin hole defined in the foldable bar arm of the adjacent L-shaped bracket,a release pin projecting radially outwardly through the release pin hole to move the fastener pin from interconnection in the fastening pin hole in the L-shaped bracket responsive to release pin motion, andmeans to bias the fastening pin and the release pin into a radially outward position.