Patent ID: 8403585

Claim:
A miter-joint bracket comprising: a. a uniformly-cast oblate-hexagonal base plate, said base plate having: (1) a bottom side, (2) a top side parallel to and shorter in length than said bottom side, (3) two lower legs each adjacent to and extending outwardly at an obtuse angle from said bottom side, (4) two upper legs each adjacent to and extending inwardly from one or the other of said lower legs at an acute angle so as to intersect said top side and, if extended, intersect each other at a ninety-degree angle, (5) a hole in the center of said base plate; and b. a uniformly cast truncated hollow dome centered on said base plate over said hole and rising upward from said hole's edge and said base plate, said dome having a flat dome roof parallel to said base plate, said dome roof having two apertures positioned so that a line connecting said apertures would be parallel to said bottom side and said top side.