Patent ID: 7387213

Claim:
The combination of a dress kit and a mounting system for mounting said dress kit to an upright post having opposed sidewalls provided with vertically spaced openings, said dress kit of the type having a vertically oriented back panel provided with rearwardly extending hooks and a pair of wing covers forwardly extending from opposite sides of said back panel and wherein said wing covers in turn form vertically extending interior pockets accessible from the rear of said back panel, said mounting system including a bracket having a laterally extending frame member including forwardly extending fingers at opposite ends thereof and a connector assembly rearwardly extending from one end thereof and in turn adapted to engage and connect said bracket to an upright post and wherein said back panel hooks are adapted to engage said frame member and rest thereon to connect said back panel to said bracket, said connector assembly comprising a front plate having a front wall and a rear wall with the front wall fixedly connected to the rear of said laterally extending frame member, said front plate having an inner edge and including a first inwardly positioned flange rearwardly extending from said inner edge thereof and including at least one laterally inwardly extending finger adapted to fit into one of the openings of a post sidewall positioned adjacent thereto, the opposite outer edge of said front plate including a second flange rearwardly extending therefrom and said second flange including means for adjustably fastening a third movable flange thereto so as to fasten an upright post between said flanges, said third movable flange having at least one pair of vertically separated upper and lower positioning fingers inwardly extending from a side edge thereof and wherein the upper fingers of said third flange terminate in a downwardly extending hook adapted to extend into one of the openings in the post sidewall positioned adjacent thereto and adapted to engage inner wall.