Holding device

• US 20050283953A1
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renwick Byron Jeffrey
• Original Assignee: Renwick Byron Jeffrey
• Inventors: Jeffrey, Renwick Byron
• Application Number:
  US10/772,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20050283953A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/303
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/14 Self-holding grips
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/32 having magnetic fastener

Abstract

A holding device comprising two elongated portions, the first portion having a flat side for mounting with double back tape, or by other means, and a recessed alignment slot and double curve on the opposing side that fits the double curve and alignment bar on the second portion, causing absolutely correct alignment of the magnetic parts of the device. The alignment area of the said first portion is attached to the second said portion by means of matching hinge points with a corrosion free hinge pin, which aligns the mating surfaces, and one of the said portions having either a piece of ferrous material or a magnet encapsulated, and the opposing portion having magnetic material encapsulated, attracting the second said portion to the first said portion, thus, holding until deliberately removed, various materials between the two said portions, such as, but not limited to, a towel.

Claims

1. A magnetic holding device comprising:

2. A two part device comprising two elongated parts made of non ferrous material and containing a magnet in one of the said two parts and a ferrous material slug in the other of the said parts, or a magnet in each of the said two parts, in order to attract one said part to the other at a given mating point.

3. The magnets or ferrous material and magnet are imbedded in the said non-ferrous elongated parts in order that the said two parts will be magnetically attracted at only one specific mating area of each of the said parts. The strength of the magnet or magnets is to be determined by the weight of the object or objects to be held.

4. A hinge area is integrated into each of the said two parts, where said hinge design allows one of the said parts to be attached to, or mounted on a surface, and which allows the other of the said two parts to be freely movable around the said hinge point.

5. The said two parts to be shaped in such a manner as to allow room for extra material to be held above the magnetic contact areas.

6. The shape of each of the two said parts is such that it is easy to put the material to be held into the holding device, thereby making it unnecessary to use both hands to operate it.

7. The design of the holding device is intuitive and as such it needs no instructtions on how to use it.

8. The holding device keeps continuous even pressure on what it is holding, without the use of springs.

9. The holding device is self centering so that said elongated part used for mounting and said second elongated part have the said specific contact areas always in correct alignment.

10. The holding device is safe to use because it has no springs and therefore cannot snap back from an extreme open position and harm the user.