Patent ID: 6394307
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
A detachable railing system comprising:a wall mount; and an angularly adjustable handrail assembly that is detachably connectable to said wall mount; said wall mount having a raised center section, a plurality of attachment screw apertures, two locking keyway slots, and a threaded locking screw aperture; said handrail assembly including a mounting channel member, a support brace, a handrail member, a securing pin and a locking screw; said mounting channel member including a brace receiving channel defined between two parallel spaced sidewalls that are provided with pairs of concentrically aligned locking pin holes therethrough and a back wall having a channel defining surface through which a locking screw aperture is provided, said back wall having a back surface including a pair of spaced, enlarged ended locking keys that extend outwardly therefrom that are spaced and sized to engage and lock within said two locking keyways slots of said wall mount such that when said locking screw is positioned through said locking screw aperture and threaded into said threaded locking screw aperture of said wall mount, said locking keys are not disengagable from said two locking keyways slots; said hand rail member being elongated, rigid, and pivotally connected at a first handrail end to a top end of said mounting channel member and pivotally connected at a second handrail end to said support brace; said support brace having a moveable end positionable into said brace receiving channel of said mounting channel member and a securing pin aperture provided through said moveable end that is selectively alignable with each of said pairs of concentrically aligned locking pin holes; said securing pin being positionable through said securing pin aperture and one pair of said aligned pairs of concentrically aligned locking pin holes to secure said moveable end of said support brace to said mounting channel member; said angle of said handrail member with respect to said mounting channel member being user selectable by alignment of said securing pin aperture with a pair of concentrically aligned locking pin holes that corresponds to said desired handrail angle prior to insertion of said securing pin therethrough.