Patent ID: 6375137
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: A47B,A47G,F16M

Abstract:
A support assembly for a brick wall having mortar recesses between adjacent rows of bricks, the support assembly including first and second elongate members, with the first elongate member having an upper end with a hook means for engagement in a first horizontal mortar groove between two courses of bricks and being adapted to be disposed generally vertically with respect to a brick wall face, the second elongate member having a proximal end with an end face for engagement in a second lower horizontal mortar groove and being adapted for connection to the first elongate member to extend laterally with respect to the first elongate member from the brick wall face, with a distal end of the second elongate member being adapted to support a predetermined load, and wherein the first elongate member has an inwardly directed lower end adapted to abut the brick wall face below the second mortar groove to space a central portion of the first elongate member away from the brick wall face.