Skull mounting apparatus

Abstract

A display apparatus for an animal skull includes a base plate sized to receive the skull of an animal and a wall display plate. The wall display plate is attached to the base plate at a mounting angle of between 120° and 150°. The wall display plate is adapted to be mounted to and to lie flat against a vertical wall with the base plate sloping downwardly with a nose portion being at a lowest location and a neck portion being at a highest location on the base plate. The wall display plate displays a silhouetted scene including an animal of a same type as the animal skull to be mounted on said mounting display.

1 . A display apparatus for an animal skull of one selected type of animal selected from the group consisting of carvidea, ursidaw, canidea, felidea, and suidea comprising:
 a) a base plate sized to receive the entire skull of said selected type of animal, said base plate having a neck portion, a body portion and a nose portion wherein said body portion has a width which is greater than a width of the nose portion and greater than a width of the neck portion; and   b) a wall display plate, said wall display plate being attached to said base plate at a bend, said bend extending across an entire width of said wall display plate and said base plate, said bend having a mounting angle B of between 120° and 150°, said wall display plate adapted to be mounted to lie flat against a vertical wall whereby when said wall display plate is mounted to a vertical wall, said wall display plate lies flat against said wall and said base plate slopes downwardly away from a lowermost edge of said display plate with said nose portion being at a lowest location and said neck portion being at a highest location on said base plate, said wall display plate displaying a silhouetted scene including an animal of only said selected type of animal and no type other than said selected animal and wherein said base plate and said wall display plate are made from a single sheet of metal with said bend at said mounting angle B.   
     
     
         2 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said body portion has at least one vertical cut out slot therein to receive a skull mounting bolt at any location along the vertical slot to allow for vertical adjustment of the skull on the base plate. 
     
     
         3 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein a plurality of slots are cut into said sheet of metal at the location of said bend. 
     
     
         4 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said mounting angle is between 130° and 140°. 
     
     
         5 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said mounting angle is approximately 135°. 
     
     
         6 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said base plate and said wall display plate are made from a single sheet of metal with a bend at said mounting angle. 
     
     
         7 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said metal has a thickness in a range of approximately 1/32 inch to ⅛ inch. 
     
     
         8 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said base plate and said wall display plate are completely black in color. 
     
     
         9 . A display apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein said neck portion has a narrow neck width and being attached to said wall display plate, said body portion has a wide body width and said nose portion has a narrow nose width. 
     
     
         10 . A display apparatus according to  claim 9  wherein when said neck width is added to said nose width, a total neck-plus-nose width is approximately equal to said body width. 
     
     
         11 . A display apparatus according to  claim 9  wherein said animal skull is a coyote skull of the canidea type and said neck width is less than said nose width. 
     
     
         12 . A display apparatus according to  claim 9  wherein said animal skull is a bear skull of the ursidaw type and said neck width is greater than said nose width. 
     
     
         13 . A display apparatus according to  claim 9  wherein said animal skull is a deer skull of the carvidea type and said neck width is greater than said nose width. 
     
     
         14 . A display apparatus according to  claim 9  wherein said animal skull is a cat skull of the felidea type and said neck width is greater than said nose width. 
     
     
         15 . A display apparatus according to  claim 9  wherein said animal skull is a swine skull of the suidea type and said neck width is less than the nose width.