TELEVISION CABINET FACE ASSEMBLY

• US 3,650,584 A
• Filed: 11/23/1970
• Issued: 03/21/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Emanuel F. Piazza, Frederick J. Goetz Jr
• Original Assignee: Emanuel F. Piazza, Frederick J. Goetz Jr
• Inventors: Goetz, Frederick J. Jr., Piazza, Emanuel F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, James C.
• Application Number:
  US05/092,036
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: 312/7TV,204
• US Class Current: 312/7.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06

Abstract

A removable bezel member having integrally formed connector means thereon mounts on the front viewing face of a cabinet for a television receiver with a simple plug-in type connection. A front-mountable escutcheon member has a removable grille member and a removable pivotable door which mount within openings therein with simple snap-in type connections, said bezel, escutcheon and grille members and said door comprising an attachable face assembly for the cabinet to complete and complement the aesthetic appearance of the front face of said television cabinet.

Claims

1. An attachable face assembly for a front viewing face of a television cabinet having a picture tube comprising a frameshaped bezel member defining a viewing opening for viewing the picture tube therethrough with said bezel member mounted over at least one portion of said front face and having integrally formed connector means thereon, a frame structure securable to said cabinet adjacent said bezel member and having removable connector means thereon aligned with at least some of said integrally formed connector means for removably attaching said bezel member to said cabinet with a plug-in type connection, a panellike escutcheon member to be mounted over the other portion of said front face and having inner edge portions defining first and second openings therein, a grille member to be removably mounted within said first opening, first flexible connector means securable to one of said grille member and said escutcheon member and including a first portion interferingly aligned with one edge portion of the other of said grille member and said escutcheon member for removably attaching said grille member with a snap-in type connection, a pivotable door to be removably mounted within said second opening, second flexible connector means securable to one of said escutcheon member and said door with a socket type connection and securable to the other of said escutcheon member and said door with a snap-in type connection for removably attaching said door to said escutcheon member and for biasing said door to remain in a fixed pivot position whereby said bezel member, said escutcheon member, said grille member and said door complement the aesthetic appearance of the front face of said television cabinet.

2. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said integrally formed connector means include one set of a set of protruding connector means and a set of receiving connector means and said removable connector means include the other set of said set of protruding connector means and said set of receiving connector means.

3. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 2 wherein said set of integrally formed connector means is randomly spaced at least about the periphery of said viewing opening, said frame structure includes a corresponding set of spaced apertures aligned with said integrally formed connector means with said bezel member mounted on said front face, and said set of removable connector means is securable within selectable ones of said apertures for connecting with selectable ones of said aligned integrally formed connector means to removably attach said bezel member to said cabinet and to provide alternative ones of said aligned integrally forMed connector means by which to mount said bezel member.

4. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 2 wherein said set of integrally formed connector means include a plurality of spaced pairs thereof randomly positioned at least about the periphery of said viewing opening, and said frame structure includes a plurality of spaced apertures corresponding to said plurality of pairs of said integrally formed connector means and aligned therewith with said bezel member mounted on said front face, and each of said set of removable connector means is securable within selectable ones of said apertures for connecting with selectable ones of each of said aligned pairs of integrally formed connector means to removably attach said bezel member to said cabinet and to provide alternative ones of each of said aligned pairs of integrally formed connector means by which to mount said bezel member.

5. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first portion of said first flexible connector means includes at least one outwardly extending flexure member biased to return to one position and having a cam surface interferingly aligned with said one edge portion to move said flexure member thereover with said grille member being mounted within said first opening, and one of said grille member and said escutcheon member has an extending rim portion interferingly engageable with another edge portion of the other of said grille member and said escutcheon member, said other edge portion being opposite from said one edge portion, with said flexure member returned to said one position.

6. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 5 wherein the other of said grille member and said escutcheon member includes a first shoulder portion adjacent said one edge portion and engageable with said flexure member with said flexure member returned to said one position for biasing said rim portion into engagement with said other edge portion whereby said grille member is retained within said first opening.

7. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 5 wherein said flexure member has a first shoulder portion engageable with said one edge portion with said flexure member returned to said one position for biasing said rim portion into engagement with said other edge portion whereby said grille member is retained within said first opening.

8. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein said second flexible connector means includes a pair of generally U-shaped bladelike compression spring clips having a pair of leg portions respectively, one leg portion of each of said clips includes a socket receptacle and the other leg portion thereof includes an aperture therein, one of said escutcheon member and said door includes a first pair of oppositely spaced protruding bosses for being received within said socket receptacles to comprise said socket type connection and the other of said escutcheon member and said door includes a second pair of oppositely spaced protruding bosses for being received within said apertures to comprise said snap-in type connection.

9. An attachable face assembly for a front viewing face of a cabinet for a television receiver having a picture tube comprising a frame-shaped bezel member defining a viewing opening for viewing the picture tube therethrough with said bezel member mounted over at least one portion of said front face, a frame structure securable to said cabinet rearwardly adjacent said bezel member, protruding connector means securable to one of said bezel member and said frame structure, and receiving connector means securable to the other of said bezel member and said frame structure and aligned with at least some of said protruding connector means for removably attaching said bezel member to said cabinet with a plug-in type connection, said connector means securable to said bezel member being integrally formed thereon and said connector means securable to said frame structure being removable whereby said integrally foRmed and said removable connector means provide alternative connector means for said bezel member.

10. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 9 wherein said frame structure includes spaced apertures therethrough aligned with said integrally formed connector means on said bezel member, and said removable connector means are removably attached within selectable ones of said apertures for connecting with selectable ones of said aligned integrally formed connector means to provide alternative integrally formed connector means by which to mount said bezel member to said cabinet.

11. An attachable face assembly for the front viewing face of a cabinet for a television receiver having a picture tube comprising a panellike escutcheon member defining a first access opening for providing access to critical adjustment means of said picture tube therethrough with said escutcheon member mounted over one portion of said front face, a pivotable door to be removably mounted within said access opening, first portions of socket type connector means on one of said escutcheon member and said door, first portions of snap-in type connector means on the other of said escutcheon member and said door, a pair of generally U-shaped bladelike compression spring clips, each of said clips having a pair of leg portions including second portions of socket type connector means on one of said leg portions to be connected with an associated one of said first portions thereof to secure said clips thereto with a socket type connection, and second portions of snap-in type connector means on the other of said leg portions to be connected with an associated one of said second portions thereof to secure said clips thereto with a snap-in type connection whereby said door limits the access to said critical adjustment means.

12. An attachable face assembly as claimed in claim 11 wherein said first portions of said socket type connector means and said first portions of said snap-in type connector means are first and second pairs of protruding tabs, respectively, and said second portions of said socket type connector means and said second portions of said snap-in type connector means are a pair of socket receptacles and a pair of apertures, respectively.