Patent ID: 7857170
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
1. A wall plate system comprising: a wall plate adapted for securing to a wall by fastening mechanism selected from fasteners which extend rearwardly of the wall plate into the wall, a plurality of dispensers each of which are adapted to be removably coupled to the wall plate, the wall plate having an upper edge, a lower edge, and two side edges, the wall plate having a securement portion and a plate portion, the securement portion disposed along the upper edge, the plate portion coupled to the securement portion and extending therefrom between the two side edges to the lower edge, the plate portion comprising a thin planar sheet member having a rear surface and a forward surface, the securement portion having a rear surface disposed in the same plane as the rear surface of the plate portion or forward thereof, the securement portion carrying an engagement element, each dispenser having an upper end, a lower end and a rear surface for engagement with the forward surface of the plate portion, each dispenser carrying at its upper end an engagement member removably engaging the engagement element of the securement portion to removably secure each dispenser to the wall plate with the rear surface of each dispenser in engagement with the forward surface of the plate portion with the upper end of each dispenser proximate the securement portion and with each dispenser extending downwardly from its upper end to its lower end, wherein with the wall plate secured to a wall with a first of the plurality of dispensers coupled to the wall plate by engagement between the engagement element of the wall plate and the engagement member of that first dispenser, without removal or disengagement of the wall plate from the wall, the first dispenser is removable from the wall plate by disengagement of the engagement between the engagement element of the wall plate and the engagement member of that first dispenser for replacement as by a second of the plurality of dispensers by engagement between the engagement element of the wall plate and the engagement member of that second dispencer, the wall plate is formed by bending a single metal sheet, the metal sheet being bent at a juncture between the plate portion and the securement portion to provide the securement portion as extending forwardly from the plane of the plate portion permitting each dispenser to hang downwardly from the securement portion, the securement portion comprises an elongate channel member extending along the upper edge of the wall plate parallel to the upper edge defining a hollow channelway therein, the engagement element comprising a keyway opening through the channel member into the channel-way, the engagement member comprising a key member adapted to extend through the keyway at least partially into the channelway to couple each dispenser to the securement portion against removal with each dispenser to hang downwardly from the securement portion, the metal sheet is a flat planar sheet other than along the upper edge of the wall plate where the metal sheet is bent to form the elongate channel member extending forwardly from the plane of the plate portion and defining the hollow channclway therein forwardly from the plane of the plate portion, the metal sheet is bent along a first fold line parallel to the upper edge between the plate portion and the channel member providing a forwardly and upwardly extending lower flange of the channel member ending at a second fold line parallel to the first fold line and providing a rearwardly extending upper flange ofthe channel member, the hollow channelway defined rearwardly of and between the lower flange and the upper flange, and the keyway is provided through the lower flange.