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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1998
Mark S Bloom, Ventura, CA (US);
Emhart Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for installing a faucet on a top side of a deck. The apparatus includes a threaded member engaged with the faucet and extending through the mounting hole to be rotated from above the deck. A nut is threadedly connected to the threaded member to pass through the mounting hole to the underside of the deck and to be shifted toward and away from the underside of the deck responsive to the direction of rotation of the threaded member. A second member associated with and parallel to the threaded member engages the nut to prevent rotation thereof during rotation of the threaded member whereby the nut will be shifted up or down along the length of the threaded member responsive to the direction of rotation of the threaded member. A retaining bracket is pivotally connected to the nut and gravity balanced to assume a free position across the nut which is substantially perpendicular to the threaded member when the nut has been shifted downwardly sufficiently away from the deck. The retaining bracket has a greater length than a diameter of the mounting hole in the deck and is pivoted upwardly along the length of the threaded member to be carried with the nut downwardly through the mounting hole in the deck and to swing to said free position when sufficiently past the mounting hole whereby, upon rotation of the threaded member to raise the nut in the direction of the deck, the retaining bracket will engage the underside of the deck to clamp the faucet to the deck.