Clip mechanism and wall retention device for cup dispensing housing or similar article

Claim 1

A bracket and dispenser clip apparatus for slideably and removeably mounting a cup dispenser housing or similar article to a wall, comprising: (a) a flexible, plastic wall bracket having a relatively planar back surface, first and second side walls extending from said planar surface at a given angle and sloping inwardly towards each other in the same plane, the distance between said side walls forming a slot with said back surface with said side walls being closer together at a bottom end of said back planar surface and further apart at a top end, and a bottom wall adjacent said bottom end of said back surface and overlying the bottom-edges of said first and second side walls, (b) a dispenser clip comprising a back arcuate section positioned on a cup dispenser housing, said back section having depending therefrom at a right and left side, two outwardly sloping side walls each directed from a top to a bottom end of said clip at a predetermined angle whereby said first and second side walls are further apart at said top end and closest together at said bottom end, said clip dimensioned so that said side walls can be slideably inserted between said side walls of said wall bracket with said bottom end of said clip coacting with said bottom wall of said bracket to retain said clip and therefore said associated dispenser housing therein, said clip and bracket when coacting, capable of being removed one from another via said slot between said side walls in said wall bracket by the exertion of a force relatively transverse to said clip and bracket.