PORTABLE ANTENNA MOUNT FOR TRUCKS

• US 3,710,339 A
• Filed: 03/24/1971
• Issued: 01/09/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leroy A. Rima
• Original Assignee: Leroy A. Rima
• Inventors: Rima, Leroy A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lieberman, Eli
• Application Number:
  US05/127,572
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: 343/711,712,713,715,880,882,720,881
• US Class Current: 343/715
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/08 Means for collapsing antennas or parts thereof collapsible loop antennas H01Q7/02; means for collapsing H-antennas or Yagi antennas H01Q19/04
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/3266 using the mirror of the vehicle

Abstract

An antenna mount for removably attaching a radio antenna to the bracket of a side-mounted mirror of a truck, the mount comprising telescoping upper and lower tubular members having a spring therein, means attaching hooks to each member so that said spring causes said hooks to clamp against outwardly extending portions of said mirror bracket, an antenna of a vertically telescoping type folding into a collapsed position with respect to the telescoping tubes for compact storage. The combination described in further combination with a truck and truck mirror having outwardly extending bracket portions.

Claims

1. In combination:

a truck having a mirror on its outer side, a bracket supporting said mirror, said bracket having upper and lower bracket portions extending outwardly from said side of said truck, a portable antenna mount for trucks comprising upper and lower slidably interconnected members slidable with respect to each other in a vertical direction, said upper interconnected member being generally above and laPping the lower one of said interconnected members, a lower hook means attached to the lower slidably interconnected member and extending outwardly from a side thereof, an antenna support member, means attaching said support member to one of said slidably interconnected members, an upper hook means disposed above said first-mentioned hook, and means attaching said upper hook means to an upper portion of said mount, said lower hook means receiving therein the lower one of said outwardly extending bracket portions, and said upper hook means being disposed receiving therein the upper one of said outwardly extending bracket portions, spring means, means attaching said spring means to said slidably interconnected members in a manner for causing said spring means to urge said interconnected members in a direction parallel to a line between said upper and lower hook means and such that said hook means each press against their respective outwardly extending bracket portion in a manner for maintaining said bracket portions in said hook means respectively for firmly attaching said mount on said bracket, and an antenna attached to said antenna support member and extending upwardly therefrom.

2. The combination of claim 1 in which said antenna support member is pivotally attached to the upper one of said slidably interconnected members in a manner for pivoting about an axis transverse to a line extending between said hooks whereby said antenna mount, when removed from said mirror bracket, can be collapsed so as to be easily portable by pivoting said support member so that said antenna is in alignment with a line between said hook means.

3. The combination of claim 2 in which said upper hook means is attached to said antenna support member.

4. The combination of claim 3 in which said upper hook means is disposed below said pivot axis.

5. The combination of claim 2 in which said antenna is attached to said antenna support member by means extending into a plane disposed at a right angle to said pivot axis, which plane is in intersection with the upper one of said slidably interconnected members, the place of attachment of the lower portion of said antenna to said support member being offset horizontally from said pivot axis at times when said antenna mount is in position on said mirror bracket whereby said antenna support member can be pivoted into a position for placing said elongated antenna in parallelism with a line extending between said upper and lower hook means without interference from the said extending portion of said antenna attachment means.

6. The combination of claim 1 in which said slidably interconnected members comprise two tubes, said spring means being disposed inside said tubes.

7. The combination of claim 6 in which said upper tube is on the outside of the lower tube to prevent water from raining into space between said tubes.

8. The combination of claim 6 in which cap means are disposed over the top of said upper tube and over the bottom of said lower tube.

9. The combination of claim 6 in which a shoulder means is disposed on the inner one of said tubes in a position so as to be engaged by the adjacent end of the upper one of said tubes to prevent excessive collapse of said two slidably interconnected members beyond the combined length sufficient so as to be as long as the minimum length of said antenna, said antenna being a telescoping antenna having a minimum length when it is collapsed.