Patent ID: 6860459

Claim:
A selectively positionable mounting system comprising: a) a component element having first and second ends, said first end having a protruding multifaceted surface with a plurality of adjacent segmented edge surfaces and said second end having a pivoting mating surface; b) a base accessory mounting and maintaining said component element in a plurality of selective orientations, the base accessory having a pair of spaced apart generally upstanding elements configured to receive said first and second ends of said component under resilient bias force, one of said elements having a pivoting mating surface configured to pivotally mate with said pivoting mating surface of said component element and the other of said elements having an orifice with a plurality of edge surfaces therein receiving said protruding multifaceted surface of said component element; and wherein at least a portion of the plurality of edge surfaces on the component element engage at least two of the edge surfaces of the orifice to facilitate mounting of the component element into the base accessory in said plurality of selective orientations, so that said component element may be rotated and positioned in said base accessory at a plurality of angular positions and positively maintained in one of said plurality of angular positions where surfaces of said component element engage surfaces of said base accessory under bias force; and whereby said upstanding elements are biased away from each other from a first to a second position when said component element moves from one selective orientation to another selective orientation.