Speaker mount and assembly and method of disengagement thereof

• US 10,171,897 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2017
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Swarm Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Swarm Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Hart, Jonathan Neil
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Tan
• Application Number:
  US15/685,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20180063611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• Field of Search: 248 273, 2482311, 248201, 248317, 248343, 24822214, 24829212, 381340, 381386, 381387, 381395, 381182, 439529
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/043 actuated by screwing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0056 Audio equipment, e.g. music instruments, radios or speakers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/025 Arrangements for fixing loudspeaker transducers, e.g. in a box, furniture
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/021 Transducers or their casings adapted for mounting in or to a wall or ceiling

Abstract

A mount, speaker mount, mount assembly, and method of disengagement thereof including a speaker baffle; a support member; a movable tab with a finger that extends away from the support member and/or shaped to engage with a surface when the speaker mount is installed, thereby causing the tab to tip relative to the support member. Each of the tab and the support member include mating teeth that, when engaged to each other when the tab tips due to the finger engaging with a surface, prevent travel of the tab from the closer region to the elevated region. There is an aperture through the baffle that provides access to apply pressure to a bottom of the tab to allow for an object to be inserted therein to disengage the mating teeth.

Claims

1. A speaker mount, comprising:

a. a speaker baffle;

b. a support member extending from the speaker baffle and having an elevated region spaced therefrom and a closer region closer to the speaker baffle than the elevated region;

c. a tab movably coupled to the support member such that it can travel between the elevated region and the closer region and including leeway in the coupling between the tab and the support member such that the tab can tip relative to the support member, the tab including a finger extending away from the support member and shaped to engage with a surface when the speaker mount is installed, thereby causing the tab to tip relative to the support member; and

d. wherein each of the tab and the support member include mating teeth facing each other that are positioned to press against each other and thereby engage when the tab tips relative to the support member when the finger engages with a surface and to be spaced apart and thereby not engage when the tab is not tipped, and when so engaged to each other when the tab tips due, to the finger engaging with a surface, prevent travel of the tab from the closer region to the elevated region.

2. The mount of claim 1, wherein the support member is a tower.

3. The mount of claim 1, further comprising a path guide coupled to the support member and the tab, wherein the path guide includes a vertical pathing and a rotational pathing that is substantially orthogonal the vertical pathing.

4. The mount of claim 3, wherein the teeth are positioned such that they are not aligned to be able to engage unless the tab is rotated along the rotational pathing.

5. The mount of claim 1, wherein the mating teeth each extend along an entire length of each of the tab and the support member.

6. The mount of claim 1, further comprising a tab bias member functionally coupled to the tab such that the tab is biased towards the speaker baffle.

7. The mount of claim 1, further comprising an aperture through the baffle that, provides access to apply pressure to a bottom of the tab.

8. The mount of claim 1, wherein the mating teeth of the tab are disposed along a top region of a front surface thereof and wherein the tab has an angled surface along each of the top region of the front surface and a bottom region of a back surface.

9. A mount assembly, comprising:

a. a mount body;

b. a support member extending from the mount body and having an elevated region spaced therefrom and a closer region closer to a speaker baffle than the elevated region;

c. a tab movably coupled to the support member such that it can travel between the elevated region and the closer region and including an angled surface adjacent, to the support member that, creates leeway in the coupling between the tab and the support member such that the tab can tip relative to the support member, the tab including a finger extending away from the support member and shaped to engage with a surface when the mount is installed, thereby causing the tab to tip relative to the support member when the finger is pressed against the surface, the tab including a front surface that is opposite the finger; and

d. wherein each of the tab and the support member include mating teeth that face each other and that, when engaged to each other when the tab tips due to cooperation of the angled surface and the finger engaging with a surface, prevent travel of the tab from the closer region to the elevated region, wherein the mating teeth of the tab are disposed on the angled surface of the tab.

10. The mount of claim 9, wherein the support member is a tower.

11. The mount of claim 9, further comprising a path guide coupled to the support member and the tab, wherein the path guide includes a vertical pathing and a rotational pathing that is substantially orthogonal to the vertical pathing.

12. The mount of claim 11, wherein the teeth are positioned such that they are not aligned to be able to engage unless the tab is rotated along the rotational pathing.

13. The mount of claim 9, further comprising a tab bias member functionally coupled to the tab such that the tab is biased towards the mount body.

14. The mount of claim 9, further comprising an aperture through the mount body that provides access to apply pressure to a bottom of the tab.

15. The mount of claim 9, wherein the mating teeth of the tab are disposed along a top region of the front surface thereof and wherein the tab has an angled surface along each of the top region of the front surface and a bottom region of a back surface.

16. A speaker mount, comprising:

a. a speaker baffle;

b. a support member extending from the speaker baffle and having an elevated region spaced therefrom and a closer region closer to the speaker baffle than the elevated region;

c. a tab movably coupled to the support member such that it can travel between the elevated region and the closer region and such that it can tip relative to the support member, the tab including a linger extending away from the support member and shaped to engage with a surface when the speaker mount is installed, thereby causing the tab to tip relative to the support member;

d. a tab bias member functionally coupled to the tab such that the tab is biased towards a mount body;

e. an aperture through the mount body that provides access to apply pressure to a bottom of the tab; and

f. wherein each of the tab and the support member include mating teeth that, when engaged to each other when the tab tips due to the finger engaging with a surface, prevent travel of the tab from the closer region to the elevated region, wherein the mating teeth of the tab are disposed along a top region of a front surface thereof and wherein the tab has an angled surface along each of the top region of the front surface and a bottom region of a back surface.

17. The mount of claim 16, further comprising a path guide coupled to the support member and the tab, wherein the path guide includes a vertical pathing and a rotational pathing that is substantially orthogonal to the vertical pathing.

18. The mount of claim 17, wherein the teeth are positioned such that they are not aligned to be able to engage unless the tab is rotated along the rotational pathing.