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ANTENNA MOUNTING BRACKET

  • US 3,802,653 A
  • Filed: 02/16/1972
  • Issued: 04/09/1974
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1972
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A mounting bracket for interconnecting a television antenna to the upper end of an open vent pipe of the plumbing of a house and the like, comprising a tubular mandrel member having a first open end provided with a first plurality of flexible spaced-apart finger portions adapted and arranged to receive and encompass the mast of said antenna and a second open end arranged and adapted to be slidably inserted into said upper end of said vent pipe, said mandrel member further having a sidewall aperture located between said open ends of said mandrel member, a generally cyliNdrical bell-like member concentrically disposed about said mandrel member between said second open end thereof and said sidewall aperture and having a smaller end fixedly closed about the exterior of said mandrel member and a larger end provided with a second plurality of flexible spaced-apart finger portions spaced from and about the exterior surface of said mandrel member and extending toward said second open end thereof, first clamping means disposed about said first open end of said mandrel for squeezing said first plurality of finger portions together about the longitudinal axis of said mandrel member, and second clamping means disposed about said larger end of said bell member for squeezing said second plurality of finger portions together about the exterior surface of said mandrel member, said mandrel member further having a stop portion located adjacent said sidewall aperture therein and within the interior of said mandrel member.

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