Patent ID: 8056977

Claim:
A method for securing a doorway jumper apparatus to a wall above a doorway or to a beam, the method comprising: providing a pair of mounting brackets, each mounting bracket comprising a flange and a housing having a receptacle area, the housing being located at a center portion of the flange, the flange having holes through which fasteners are insertable to affix the housing to a wall above a doorway or to a horizontal beam; affixing the pair of mounting brackets to both sides of the horizontal beam by affixing the fasteners to the horizontal beam, or to the wall above both sides of the doorway by affixing the fasteners to both sides of a header located above the doorway; and inserting each of a pair of clamp contacts of the doorway jumper apparatus into the receptacle area of a respective one of the pair of mounting brackets, wherein at least one wall of the housing extending in an outward direction from the flange and defining a periphery of the receptacle area surrounds and confines movement of the clamp contact in each of a first direction perpendicular to the outward direction, a second direction opposite the first direction, a third direction perpendicular to each of the outward direction and the first direction, and a fourth direction opposite the third direction.