US 12,239,224 B2
Vegetation hanging and drying system and brackets thereof
Todd Chandler Larkins, Ashland, OR (US)
Assigned to DRIFLOWER, LLC, Ashland, OR (US)
Filed by DriFlower, LLC, Ashland, OR (US)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/579,807.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/171,115, filed on Apr. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312965 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A47B 96/06 (2006.01); A01F 25/12 (2006.01); A47B 57/42 (2006.01); A47B 57/52 (2006.01); F16M 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC A47B 96/06 (2013.01) [A01F 25/12 (2013.01); A47B 57/42 (2013.01); A47B 57/52 (2013.01); A47B 96/068 (2013.01); F16M 13/02 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bracket for use in a vegetation hanging and drying system, the bracket comprising:
a mounting plate configured to abut a vertical support shaft of the vegetation hanging and drying system;
an anchor attached to the mounting plate and configured to secure the mounting plate to the vertical support shaft;
a racking plate protruding from the mounting plate and defining a vertically-extending gap configured for receipt of a horizontal hanging bar, the racking plate including a pair of vertical fingers joined by a lower body to define the vertically-extending gap; and
a stabilizing plate extending away from the racking plate,
wherein the mounting plate includes a pair of first and second mounting plates extending substantially perpendicular from a longitudinal edge of the racking plate, and wherein the stabilizing plate extends between the pair of first and second mounting plates and is coplanar with the racking plate, and wherein the second mounting plate of the pair of first and second mounting plates extends substantially perpendicular from the lower body of the racking plate.
 
11. A bracket for use in a vegetation hanging and drying system, the bracket comprising:
a mounting plate configured to abut a vertical support shaft of the vegetation hanging and drying system;
an anchor attached to the mounting plate and configured to secure the mounting plate to the vertical support shaft;
a racking plate protruding from the mounting plate and defining a vertically-extending gap configured for receipt of a horizontal hanging bar, the racking plate including a pair of vertical fingers joined by a lower body to define the vertically-extending gap,
wherein a first finger of the pair of vertical fingers is directly adjoined to the mounting plate and a second finger of the pair of vertical fingers is free-standing, and wherein the first finger of the pair of vertical fingers includes a linear, inner edge and the second finger of the pair of vertical fingers includes an inner edge having a linear lower portion and a ramped upper portion, the first finger of the pair of vertical fingers having the same height as the mounting plate; and
a stabilizing plate extending away from the racking plate, the stabilizing plate extending substantially perpendicular relative to a longitudinal edge of the first finger of the pair of vertical fingers,
wherein the mounting plate includes a pair of first and second mounting plates extending substantially perpendicular from a longitudinal edge of the racking plate, and wherein the stabilizing plate extends between the pair of first and second mounting plates and is coplanar with the racking plate, and wherein the second mounting plate of the pair of first and second mounting plates extends substantially perpendicular from the lower body of the racking plate.