Clamp for wall mounting of bathroom accessories

Claim 1

A clamp for clamping a bathroom accessory receptacle into a bathroom wall cutout comprising: a. an H-frame formed of two, equal-length, spaceD-apart rightangle members; b. the right-angle members having inboard flanges in opposed facing relationship for contacting throughout their lengths the opposite sides of a wall cutout; c. the right-angle members having outboard flanges for contacting throughout their lengths the back-surface of the wall to distribute the clamping force over the surrounding back-wall surface; d. a crossbeam connected rigidly at its ends to the midpoints of the inboard flanges to form the H-frame; e. the crossbeam being offset throughout its length to form two legs of equal length, the legs being at right angles to the straight middle portion of the cross-beam, the length of the legs displacing the straight middle portion of the crossbeam from the front-wall surface a distance sufficient to accommodate the depth of a grab handle accessory receptacle through the wall cutout, the length of the middle portion of the cross beam being both parallel to the backwall surface and equal to the largest dimension of the wall cutout; f. the inboard flanges being crimped outwardly to anchor the Hframe in the sides of the wall cutout; and g. fastening means in the middle portion of the cross-beam for connection to fastening means in the bottom portion of the receptacle for rigidly clamping the accessory to the wall.