Holder for battery-operated driving unit

• US 3,293,528 A
• Filed: 04/10/1964
• Issued: 12/20/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Earl E. Sutton, Frank Rosen
• Original Assignee: Earl E. Sutton, Frank Rosen
• Inventors: Rosen, Frank, Sutton, Earl E.
• Application Number:
  US04/358,766
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• US Class Current: 320/115
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/247 specially adapted for portable devices, e.g. mobile phones, computers, hand tools or pacemakers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/296 characterised by terminals of battery packs terminals of batteries H01M50/543
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Claims

1. A HOLDER FOR HOLDING A BATTERY-POWERED DRVING UNIT FOR A TOOTHBRUSH OR THE LIKE, SAID DRIVING UNIT HAVING AN ELONGATED BODY, THE BODY HAVING A FIRST END PORTION AND A SECOND END PORTION, SAID FIRST END PORTION HAVING A FIRST ELECTRIC CONTACT MEMBER ON THE END WALL THEREOF AND A SECOND ELECTRIC CONTACT MEMBER ON THE SIDE WALL THEREOF FOR PROVIDING ELECTRICAL CONNECTION WITH A BATTERY CARRIED BY THE UNIT FOR CHARGING THE BATTERY, SAID UNIT HAVING AN ACTUATING SHANK EXTENDING AXIALLY THEREOF FROM SAID SECOND END PORTION OF THE BODY FOR ATTACHMENT TO A TOOTHBRUSH OR THE LIKE, SAID HOLDER COMPRISING THE COMBINATION OF AND LONGATED PORTION HAVING AN OPEN SIDE THROUGH WHICH A SAID UNIT MAY BE LATERALLY MOVED TO ENGAGE SAID ELONGATED PORTION, SAID ELONGATED GENERALLY PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER TO EMBRACE THEREBETWEEN A SAID UNIT EXTENDED ALONG SAID ELONGATED PORTION, A SOCKET PORTION AT ONE END OF SAID ELONGATED PORTION HAVING A RECESS ADAPTED TO ACCOMMODATE THEREIN SAID FIRST END PORTION OF A UNIT EXTENDED ALONG SAID ELONGATED PORTION OF THE HOLDER, THE AXIS OF SAID SOCKET PORTION BEING PARALLEL TO AND SPACED FROM SAID SIDE WALLS, A PAIR OF SPACED FINGERS CARRIED BY SAID ELONGATED PORTION AND EXTENDING THEREFROM AT AN AXIAL DISTANCE FROM SAID SOCKET PORTION AND ADAPTED TO EMBRACE THE ACTUATING SHANK OF SAID UNIT EXTENDED ALONG SAID ELONGATED PORTION AND HELD BY SAID HOLDER, A FIRST ELECTRIC TERMINAL MEMBER CARRIED BY SAID HOLDER IN SAID SOCKET PORTION ADJACENT THE AXIS THEREOF IN POSITION FOR ELECTRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SAID FIRST ELECTRIC CONTACT MEMBER OF A SAID UNIT HELD BY SAID HOLDER, A SECOND ELECTRIC TERMINAL MEMBER CARRIED BY SAID HOLDER IN SAID SOCKET PORTION ADJACENT A SIDE THEREOF IN POSITION FOR ELECTRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID SECOND ELECTRIC CONTACT MEMBER OF A SAID UNIT HELD BY SAID HOLDER, AND BATTERY CHARGEING MEANS CARRIED BY SAID HOLDER AND IN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION WITH SAID TERMINAL MEMBERS TO PROVIDE FOR CHARGING THE BATTERY OF A SAID UNIT HELD BY SAID HOLDER.