Patent ID: 7415803

Claim:
A system, comprising: a back up wall; a veneer wall spaced from the back up wall; an anchor shaft having a first end secured to the back up wall and a second free end projecting into a space between the back up wall and the veneer wall; a wing nut having a central barrel disposed on the shaft proximate the free end and wherein the wing nut is spaced apart from a surface of the back up wall; and a first generally planar side wing extending laterally from the central barrel of the wing nut and a second generally planar side wing extending laterally from the central barrel wherein the first side wing includes a first opening for receipt of a first wire tie leg and the second side wing includes a second opening for receipt of a second wire tie leg; wherein the wing nut is independently rotatable in two directions relative to the shaft to angularly orient the wings and thus the openings as desired; wherein the central barrel of the wing nut defines a length dimension L measured parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shaft between a first end closest to the back up wall and an opposite second end and wherein a distance D measured between the first end and a surface of the back up wall is at least about L.