Patent ID: 8317142

Claim:
A shower mounting bracket for connecting an eared fitting connected to a shower head and water pipe to an elongated support bar having a generally rectangular cross-section with a top and sides and four corners, the support bar extending between studs of a building, the bracket comprising: a stiff outer shell having a body portion with sides long enough to extend around and along the top and sides of the support bar during use of the bracket and having first and second ends at least one of which has first openings therein located in a mounting portion, the mounting portion configured to fasten to the eared fitting during use with the first openings further located to receive threaded fasteners extending through the eared fitting during use of the bracket, the shell having three segments separated by two reduced thickness fold lines with the distance between the fold lines predetermined so that each of the fold lines is located at one of the corners during use of the bracket; an isolator sized to fit between the body portion and the support bar during use and made of a material that substantially reduces the transmission of sound; a mechanism fastening the ends together with the shell being sized slightly smaller than the adjacent support bar and intervening isolator so that when the ends are fastened together the isolator can be tightly clamped to the support.