Pivot mount for awning arm

Abstract

The mount comprises a pair of brackets and an arm jaw pivotally secured to the brackets. Inward from the pivot on the jaw there is a barrel disposed parallel to the axis and rotatable with respect to the jaw, the barrel being drilled and tapped transversely and receiving an adjustment bolt mounted on a bridge between the brackets. The bolt is spring-biased downward.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A pivoted mount for an awning arm comprising a pair of parallel side-by-side substantially identical brackets, each having at its upper end a rearwardly facing C-shaped appendage adapted to grip a horizontal beam secured to a building, the brackets formed with aligned forward pivot openings and aligned horizontal slots in their lower ends rearward of the pivot openings, the slots receiving a bridge plate connecting the brackets, the bridge plate having an opening midway between the brackets, an arm jaw adapted to support an awning arm disposed inbetween the brackets and parallel thereto, fasteners extending through the pivot openings and pivotally supporting the jaw at a pivot point, the jaw formed inward from the pivot point with a horizontal opening and a vertical slow intersecting the opening, a cylindrical barrel rotatably disposed in the horizontal opening and having a radial threaded bore aligned with the slot, a headed, threaded fastener surrounded by a compression spring extending up through the opening in the bridge plate, through the slot in the jaw and threaded into the bore in the barrel, the compression spring being compressively disposed between the head and the bridge plate to bias the barrel downwardly.  
     
     
         2 . A pivoted mount for an awning arm as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the brackets have open central portions and are formed with aligned horizontal second slots above the central opening, the second slots receiving a second bridge plate connecting the brackets, the second bridge plate having an opening midway between the brackets, the upper end of the fastener freely received into the opening in the second bridge plate.