Whirlpool Corporation

Whirpool Corporation

David E Moeller

Craig Richard Forest

Michael J Scherzer

Gilius A Gaska

Scott M Collins

Guy E Garrison

A mounting bracket is provided for removably mounting a storage device on a slot track or slotwall panel having a plurality of slots having undercut sidewalls that form generally 'T' shaped slats. The mounting bracket includes a support surface having a first 'J' shaped hook to hook over the edge of a slat and into the undercut sidewall and a second &#x201c;J&#x201d; shaped hook to hook into a second slot and into the undercut sidewall. The mounting bracket includes a storage device connector attached to the support surface at a first end and has a second end. The storage device connector can include a lock rotatably mounted on the top wall adjacent the first &#x201c;J&#x201d; shaped hook having a locking member and an operator that is rotatable between locked and unlocked positions. A storage device can be coupled to the second end of the storage device connector. The storage device can be an actuatable holding system for a bicycle, or other storage device such as a basket or a storage shelf.

Lever lock slotwall storage device

An actuatable holding system is provided for holding an object, such as a bicycle. In one exemplary embodiment of the system, first and second arms are pivotally connected to a pivot base and are actuated between an opened and closed position by an assembly that can include an actuator housing with a length and extending from the base, an arm contacting element that can slide along at least a portion of the length of the actuator housing, and a button slideably disposed on the housing, distal to the arm contacting element, and operable to releasably lock the arm contacting element in at least a first position, in which the first and second arms are in the opened position, and a second position, in which the first and second arms are in the closed position. A variety of features of actuatable holding systems, as well as methods of manufacturing such systems, are also disclosed herein.

Actuatable holding system

Body for an actuatable holding system

Arm for an actuatable holding system

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Boston, MA, United States of America

David E Moeller