Patent ID: 8544805

Claim:
A mounting system comprising, in combination: an object to be removably secured to a support surface; a retaining clip having a rear wall to be secured to the support surface, and a front wall spaced from the rear wall to form a pocket therebetween with an open upper side and a closed lower side; an aperture in the front wall opening into the pocket and extending to an upper side of the front wall; a sliding clip having a sliding portion sized to be vertically slid into and out of the pocket, and an attachment portion forwardly extending from the sliding portion and secured to the object; wherein a rear surface of the sliding portion of the sliding clip and a front surface of the retaining clip rear wall engaged by the sliding portion of the sliding clip as the sliding portion is vertically slide into and out of the pocket are each planar so that the sliding portion freely slides into and out of the pocket and is retained in the pocket only by friction; double-sided adhesive tape directly secured to a forward side of the attachment portion and directly secured to a rear side of the object to secure the sliding clip to the object; and wherein a thickness of the sliding portion is substantially equal to or less than a thickness of the pocket so that the sliding portion is closely received in the pocket and there is no free-play of the sliding portion relative to the retaining clip within the pocket in the forward and rearward directions, the attachment portion is closely received in the aperture when the sliding portion is in the pocket, and the attachment portion has a thickness no more than a thickness of the front wall so that the object is spaced from the front wall of the retaining clip a distance no more than a thickness of the double-sided adhesive tape and there is substantially no free-play of the object relative to the retaining clip in the forward and rearward directions; wherein the sliding portion of the sliding clip and the pocket of the retaining clip are provided with different draft angles so that the fit gets tighter as the sliding portion is slid into the pocket.