Patent ID: 8161700

Claim:
A bracket for supporting an accessory from a tiled structure, wherein the tiled structure includes a substrate and a tile veneer bonded to the substrate solely by only a single layer of adhesive mortar without any other bonding material intervening the tile veneer and the substrate and without any mechanical connection between the tile veneer and the substrate or the adhesive mortar, the bracket comprising a base mounting portion and a support portion rigidly affixed to the base mounting portion and projecting outwardly therefrom, the base mounting portion being configured for mounting in a selected localized area of the tiled structure and having a plurality of perforations therethrough for embedding of the base mounting portion in the adhesive mortar at said localized area in abutting relation to the substrate to secure the base mounting portion thereto adhesively without any mechanical connection between the base mounting portion and the substrate or the tile veneer and with the mortar flowing through the perforations to substantially cover opposite sides of the base mounting portion for also adhering the tile veneer over the base mounting portion by the same layer of mortar with the support portion projecting outwardly beyond the tile veneer to receive the accessory.