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Claim 1

A MOUNTING DEVICE COMPRISING A JUNCTION UNIT, A SUPPORT UNIT, AND A FASTENING UNIT COMPRISING A BOLT, SAID JUNCTION UNIT AND SAID SUPPORT UNIT EACH COMPRISING A SUPPORT ELEMENT HAVING A CONFIGURATION ENABLING IT TO REMOVABLY CONNECT THE UNIT OF WHICH IT FORMS A PART TO ANOTHER OBJECT, AND EACH COMPRISING A TUBULARLY-SHAPED CONNECTOR ELEMENT FIXEDLY CONNECTED TO SAID SUPPORT ELEMENT THEREOF AND HAVING A BOLT RECEIVING BORE EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENT OF EACH OF SAID JUNCTION AND SUPPORT UNITS HAVING AT ONE END THEREOF A RIM WHICH ENCIRCLES SAID BOLT EXTENDING THROUGH SUCH BORE AND WHICH HAS FORMED THEREON A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING IDENTICAL LOCKING MEMBERS OF SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH ENGAGING IN INTERLOCKING RELATION WITH THE PLURALITY OF LOCKING MEMBERS ON THE OTHER CONNECTOR ELEMENT TO LOCK SAID ENGAGED CONNECTOR ELEMENTS AND THEREFORE SAID JUNCTION AND SUPPORT UNITS IN GIVEN FIXED RELATION UNTIL SAID LOCKING MEMBERS ARE LONGITUDINALLY DISENGAGED, THE SUPPORT ELEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID JUNCTION AND SUPPORT UNITS INCLUDING MEANS TO ENCLOSED AN OBJECT AND FOR FORMING ON SUCH OBJECT A TUBULARLY-SHAPED, LONGITUDINALLY SPLIT CLAMP PORTION, AND THE OTHER SUPPORT ELEMENT INCLUDING A PLATE HAVING AN OBJECT SUPPORTING SURFACE AND BEING PROVIDED WITH MEANS TO ENABLE ANOTHER OBJECT TO BE SECURED TO SAID SUPPORTING SURFACE, THE CONNECTOR ELEMENT OF SAID ONE UNIT HAVING SAID SPLIT CLAMP PORTION BISECTED TO FORM A PAIR OF ALIGNED TUBULARLY-SHAPED PORTIONS HAVING A COMMON LONGITUDINAL AXIS DISPOSED AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID CLAMP PORTION, SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENT PORTIONS BEING CONNECTED TO THE SPLIT EDGES OF SAID CLAMP PORTION AND SAID CONNECTOR PORTION ON WHICH SAID LOCKING ELEMENTS ARE PROVIDED HAVING AN AXIAL LENGTH GREATER THAN ONE HALF THE CROSS-SECTIONAL DIMENSION OF SAID CLAMP PORTION IN THE DIRECTION OF THE AXIS OF SUCH CONNECTOR PORTION, SAID ALIGNED CONNECTOR ELEMENT PORTIONS HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR OUTSIDE DIAMETERS AND THE LONGITUDINAL DIMENSION OF SAID CLAMP PORTION BEING SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER THAN THE LENGTH OF ONE OF SAID DIAMETERS, SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENT PORTIONS BEING INTEGRALLY CONNECTED TO THE SPLIT EDGES OF SAID CLAMP PORTION AND SPACED FORM ONE END EDGE OF SAID CLAMP PORTION, AND THE COMBINED LENGTH OF ONE OF SAID DIAMETERS AND WIDTH OF THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENT PORTIONS AND SAID ONE END EDGE BEING EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF SAID PLATE IN SAID OTHER SUPPORT ELEMENT SO THAT SAID ONE END EDGE OF THE CLAMP PORTION MAY BE PLACED FLUSH WITH A SIDE EDGE OF SAID PLATE TO ENABLE SAID JUNCTION AND SUPPORT ELEMENTS THROUGH SUCH EDGES TO COOPERATE WITH A SUPPORTING SURFACE IN THE SUPPORT OF AN OBJECT, AND SAID FASTENING UNIT COMPRISING A BOLT EXTENDED THROUGH BOTH SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENTS AND THE LATTER BEING RELATIVELY MOVABLE ANGULARLY ON SAID BOLT, SAID BOLT HAVING A PART ENGAGED WITH ONE OF SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENTS AND HAVING A PART ENGAGEABLE WITH THE OTHER OF SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENTS, AND ONE OF SAID BOLT PARTS BEING ADJUSTABLE TO CAUSE SAID BOLT SIMULTANEOUSLY TO LOCK THE LOCKING MEMBERS OF SAID CONNECTOR ELEMENTS TOGETHER IN INTERLOCKED RELATION, THEREBY FIXING THE POSITION OF ONE OF SUCH CONNECTOR ELEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE OTHER, AND TO REDUCE THE WIDTH OF THE SPLIT IN SAID CLAMP PORTION, THEREBY CAUSING SAID CLAMP PORTION TO SECURELY GRIP A BAR ON WHICH IT MAY BE MOUNTED, WHEREBY SAID BOLT CONSTITUTING SAID FASTENING UNIT BOTH LOCKS SAID JUNCTION AND SUPPORT UNITS TOGETHER AND SECURES SUCH LATTER UNITS TO THE BAR.