US Patent 7114689 Gimbaled mounting bracket

A gimbaled mounting bracket apparatus for aligning an actuator with a receptacle is disclosed, having a mounting ring rotatable around a pair of gudgeons. A concentric rotation ring attached to the pair of gudgeons. The concentric ring is mounted to a base along a rotational axis orthogonal to the gudgeons. The mounting ring retains a shower actuator that is to be aligned with a piping apparatus. The shower actuator can be angularly adjusted relative to piping apparatus to produce a collinear relationship, but is free of any translational movement relative to said receptacle, so as to minimize stresses exerted on said actuator.