Patent ID: 7401681
Filing Date: 2008-07-22
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. An auxiliary mounting device for an in ceiling speaker system, comprising: a ceiling reinforcing element; an elongate element; and an intermediate element, the intermediate element mounted to the elongate element such that the intermediate element is capable of being in a horizontally slidable state and in a horizontally fixed state; wherein the ceiling reinforcing element includes a flat plate portion provided horizontally on a rear surface of a ceiling plate and having an opening at a center portion thereof, and a vertical portion provided to extend vertically from the flat plate portion, the elongate element is provided to extend on a horizontal plane, the vertical portion is mounted to the intermediate element such that the vertical portion is capable of being in a vertically slidable state and in a vertically fixed state, and wherein the vertical portion is vertically slidable relative to the intermediate element and the elongate element when in the vertically slidable state and is vertically fixed relative to the intermediate element and the elongate element when in the vertically fixed state; wherein the intermediate element is horizontally slidable relative to the elongate element when in the horizontally slidable state and is horizontally fixed relative to the elongate element when in the horizontally fixed state; and wherein the vertical portion may be in the vertically slidable state when the intermediate element is in the horizontally fixed state, and wherein the vertical portion may be in the vertically fixed state when the intermediate element is in the horizontally slidable state.