ANTENNA WINDOW BRACKET

• US 20120268341A1
• Filed: 04/24/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joshua M. Mcdonnell
• Original Assignee: Joshua M. Mcdonnell
• Inventors: MCDONNELL, Joshua M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,928,549 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/859
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1207 for fastening a rigid aerial element
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1221 onto a wall

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a portable antenna window bracket that securely supports a satellite dish or other over the air type antenna outside a window without the need to drill into or make permanent physical attachment to the window or structure surrounding the window. The portable antenna bracket allows an antenna mounted thereon to be positioned beneath the window, thereby maintaining a clear and unobstructed view through the window. An extender is provided with an antenna receiver and a bridge on distal and proximal ends of the extender, respectively, as well as an interior support of the bridge positioned opposite the extender. An extender support is also provided with first and second edges, with the second edge adapted to abut a surface beneath the window, to support antenna weight and stabilize the antenna bracket.

Claims

1. An antenna bracket comprising:

an extender having an antenna receiver on a distal end thereof;

a bridge at a proximal end of the extender;

an interior support of the bridge positioned opposite the extender; and

an extender support,

wherein the extender support has a first edge and a second edge, with the second edge adapted to abut a surface beneath a window within which the bridge is installed.

2. The antenna bracket of claim 1, wherein the first edge and the second edge of the extender support are substantially perpendicular.

3. The antenna bracket of claim 1, wherein the extender is formed in a triangular shape provided at a first level,

wherein the bridge includes a first edge provided at the first level and a second edge provided at a second level,

wherein a predefined elevation separates the first level of the first edge from the second level of the second edge, and

wherein the bridge includes a channel having a depth of the predefined elevation.

4. The antenna bracket of claim 3, wherein the first edge and the second edge of the bridge are substantially parallel.

5. The antenna bracket of claim 3, wherein a sill of the window is positioned in the channel of the bridge when the antenna bracket is installed in the window.

6. The antenna bracket of claim 3, wherein the triangular shaped extender has three sides, with the first edge of the bridge being substantially parallel the first side of the extender, and second and third sides of the extender support respective first edges of the extender support.

7. The antenna bracket of claim 5, further comprising elongated slots on the second side and on the third side of the extender to variably positioning respective extender supports.

8. The antenna bracket of claim 1, wherein the antenna receiver includes a hollow tube within which a mast of an antenna or satellite dish is mounted.

9. The antenna bracket of claim 8, wherein the hollow tube of the antenna receiver reversibly receives the antenna mast to position an antenna mounted therein beneath the sill of the window within which the bridge is installed.

10. The antenna bracket of claim 1, further comprising a balun mounted on the extender to provide an electrical connection between an antenna mounted in the antenna receiver and a television.

11. The antenna bracket of claim 10, wherein the electrical connection between the balun and the television is provided by a flat coaxial cable.

12. The antenna bracket of claim 10, further comprising a bridge extension that includes a passage for the coaxial cable.

13. The antenna bracket of claim 1, further comprising an antenna mast configured to be reversibly positioned within the antenna receiver.

14. The antenna bracket of claim 1, further comprising a compass fixed on the extender for directional positioning of an antenna rotatably attached to the antenna mast.

15. An antenna bracket comprising:

an extender having an antenna receiver on a distal end thereof;

a bridge at a proximal end of the extender;

an interior support of the bridge opposite the extender; and

a plurality of extender supports,

wherein each of the plurality of extender supports have a first edge and a second edge, with the second edge adapted to abut a surface beneath a window within which the antenna bracket is positioned.

16. The antenna bracket of claim 15, wherein the extender is provided at a first level,

wherein the bridge includes a first edge and a second edge, with the first edge provided at the first level and the second edge provided at a second level, and

wherein a predefined elevation separates the first level of the first edge from the second level of the second edge.