Patent ID: 8439323

Claim:
An apparatus for hanging a display device, comprising: an upper mount plate suitable for attaching to a flat surface having a left cable extending downward and approximately normal to a longitudinal axis of the upper mount plate and a right cable extending downward and approximately normal to the longitudinal axis of the upper mount plate; a first cable adjustment mechanism integrated into the upper mount plate that changes the length of the left cable extended downward from the upper mount plate and a second cable adjustment mechanism integrated into the upper mount plate that changes the length of the right cable extended downward from the upper mount plate, wherein the first cable adjustment mechanism and the second cable adjustment mechanism each further includes an adjuster rod running along the longitudinal axis of the upper mount plate having an adjustment point on one end of the rod for rotating the adjustment rod and coupled on the other end of the rod to a lead screw having an outer thread, wherein the adjuster rod and lead screw rotate together; a first cable carriage associated with the first cable adjustment mechanism and a second cable carriage associated with the second cable adjustment mechanism, each cable carriage having a cable attachment point on a lower portion for attaching a proximal end of a cable and a sleeve with inner threads corresponding to the outer threads of the lead screw on an upper portion of the cable carriage, the sleeve slidably attached to the lead screw causing the cable carriage and proximal end of either the cable to translate linearly along a longitudinal axis of the lead screw as the lead screw rotates; a first translation wheel associated with the first cable carriage and a second translation wheel associated with the second cable carriage, each translation wheel designed to rotate about an axis positioned normal to the surface of the upper mount plate and having a groove around the perimeter of the wheel configured to receive a cable and translate between the cable running downward and approximately normal to the longitudinal axis of the upper mount and the cable running along the longitudinal axis in cooperation with a cable carriage also moving along the longitudinal axis of the upper mount plate; and a lower mount plate attachable to a back portion of a display device having at least two vertically aligned receiving points for the left cable on a left portion of the lower mount plate and at least two vertically aligned receiving points for the right cable on a right portion of the lower mount plate.