Flexible connection system for a mounting device

Abstract

A mounting device has a base configured for attachment to a desired mounting surface and to secure a resilient connector extending away from a connector support. The resilient connector further has a flexible snubber and a spring surrounding the snubber. At least two alignment surfaces are disposed around the resilient connector, where the alignment surfaces are adjoining each other during the relative rotational movement of the resilient connector and where the alignment surfaces are biased to reorient the resilient connector to its original rotational alignment after rotational movement occurs.

1 . A mounting device comprising: 
 a base configured for attachment to a desired mounting surface and to secure a resilient connector extending away from a connector support, said resilient connector further comprising a flexible snubber and a spring surrounding said snubber; and    at least two alignment surfaces, disposed around said resilient connector, where said alignment surfaces are adjoining each other during the relative rotational movement of said resilient connector and wherein said alignment surfaces are biased to reorient said resilient connector to its original rotational alignment after rotational movement occurs.    
   
   
       2 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said alignment surfaces are defined by an alignment loop disposed around said resilient connector.  
   
   
       3 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 2 , further comprising a plurality of said alignment loops.  
   
   
       4 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 1 , further comprising an attachment configured to adapt said resilient connector to the desired item being mounted.  
   
   
       5 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein said attachment is any one of an advertisement clip, a product sample clip and a work piece clip.  
   
   
       6 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein said alignment loops further comprise crest regions and trough regions, such that said alignment devices are in the form of wave-shaped washers.  
   
   
       7 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 6 , further comprising rotation retarding notches disposed at the top of said crest regions and at the bottom of said trough regions configured to provide an arrangement for preventing movement of said alignment loops beyond a specifiable point of rotation.  
   
   
       8 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein movement of said alignment loops is a result of externally applied forces to said mounting device.  
   
   
       9 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said connector support is an attachment plate configured to support said resilient connector in any predetermined orientation to said base of said mounting device.  
   
   
       10 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein said attachment plate further comprising a mount portion, configured to support and align against the first said alignment surface on said resilient connector.  
   
   
       11 . The mounting device as claimed in  claim 3 , further comprising a locking pin mounted through said resilient connector at the end distal to the base of said mounting device, configured to support and maintain compressive forces on the alignment loops on said resilient connector.