Adjustable mount

• US 20070041213A1
• Filed: 08/17/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AVF Group Ltd. (AVF Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: AVF Group Ltd. (AVF Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Short, Mark, Worrall, Raymond, Nicholls, Kenneth
• Granted Patent: US 7,918,426 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/561
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/105 the horizontal axis being the roll axis, e.g. for creating a landscape-portrait rotation
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/18 with mechanism for moving the apparatus relatively to the stand
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/2021 around a horizontal axis F16M11/2035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/919 Adjustably orientable video screen support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/923 Tilting

Abstract

An adjustable mount for mounting a flat panel display screen on a support comprises a first component adapted for securement to said support and forming a rear of the mount, a second component engaged with the first component and forming a front of the mount to which the screen is intended to be secured, in use, and adjustment means acting between the first and second components to alter the relative positioning therebetween.

Claims

1. An adjustable mount for mounting a flat panel display screen on a support comprising

a first component adapted for securement to said support and forming a rear of the mount,

a second component engaged with the first component and forming a front of the mount to which the screen is intended to be secured, in use, and

adjustment means acting between the first and second components to alter the relative positioning therebetween.

2. An adjustable mount according to claim 1 wherein the adjustment means is configured for adjusting the roll of a flat panel display when provided on the mount.

3. An adjustable mount according to claim 1 wherein the adjustment means comprises at least one screw engaged with a complementary screw thread of one of the components and having its shank abutting or capable of abutting the other of the components, so that rotation of the at least one screw can alter the relative horizontal positioning between the components in use.

4. An adjustable mount according to claim 3 wherein a pair of screws are threadedly engaged in the second component and can each be rotated in one direction so that the end of the screw shank engages the first component to alter the tilt of the second component relative to the first component fixed to said surface, in use, in a generally vertical plane.

5. An adjustable mount according to claim 3 wherein the first component has at least one upper slot therein, in which is received respectively at least one hook of the second component to effect said engagement of the two components, the or each slot being longer than the hook received therein to allow for the relative tilting adjustment of the second component to the first component.

6. An adjustable mount according to claim 1 wherein the first component is sized to fit within the second component.

7. An adjustable mount according to claim 1 wherein the adjustment means comprises at least one screw engaged through a generally vertically extending slot in the first component and into a complementary screw thread on the second component, such that roll of the mounting component and thereby the display can be adjusted by movement of the screw along the slot.

8. An adjustable mount according to claim 1 wherein locking means is provided for locking together the two components against relative tilting in a horizontal plane.

9. An adjustable mount according to claim 8 wherein the locking means comprises at least one screw engaged with the second component having its shank received in a slot of the first component.