Patent ID: 7530550
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: E04F,E04H

Abstract:
1. A post mount guide, comprising: a tubular body having a throughhole for slidably receiving therethrough an upright support portion of a post mount; a plurality of pairs of adjacent mounting panels each extending from and spaced apart around outside walls of said tubular body, each mounting panel having one portion connected to the tubular body, and first and second free ends; said plurality of pairs of adjacent mounting panels and said tubular body being configured to receive and retain a hollow decorative cover, for mounting over the length of the post mount and post mount guide, with said mounting panels being spaced away from inside wall portions of said cover to ensure initial non-intimate contact therewith, whereby when a fastener is inserted through a hole in said hollow decorative cover and secured to a said end of a mounting panel, said free end is adapted to resiliently bend outwardly away from its adjacent mounting panel into intimate contact with an opposing inside wall of said hollow decorative cover upon tightening of said fastener, each mounting panel being configured to receive and retain a fastener therethrough; the first free end portion of a first adjacent mounting panel including a first distal end and a projection extending inward from an interior surface thereof proximate the first distal end; the second free end portion of a second adjacent mounting panel including a second distal end adapted to abut the projection of the first distal end of the first adjacent mounting panel to limit inward bending of the second adjacent mounting panel; and the first and second free end portions of said first and second mounting panels, respectively, each being configured to provided for limiting inward movement of the first adjacent mounting panel via its first distal end portion abutting against a portion of the second distal end portion of said second adjacent mounting panel.