GIMBALLY MOUNTED RECEPTACLE

• US 3,840,204 A
• Filed: 11/13/1972
• Issued: 10/08/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank Burnett, Paul P. Thomas
• Original Assignee: Frank Burnett, Paul P. Thomas
• Inventors: Thomas, Paul P., Burnett, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Application Number:
  US05/306,099
• Time in Patent Office: 694 Days
• Field of Search: 248/311,309 211/81,88 206/DIG.19,19.5F 131/241,242
• US Class Current: 248/311.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/083 Ash-trays
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 29/12 Self-levelling mountings

Abstract

A gimbally mounted receptacle comprising: yoke means, bracket means for rotatably supporting the yoke means, a receptacle member swingably supported by the yoke means, and locking means coacting between the yoke means and the bracket means for facilitating the rotation of the yoke means therein about an axis or rotation and for precluding movement thereof transversely of the axis.

Claims

1. A mounted receptacle comprising:

a mounting bracket comprising a closed cylindrical portion terminating in a flange adapted to mount said mounting bracket, a journal box disposed within said closed cylindrical portion at the end of said closed cylindrical portion terminating in said flange, a shaft receiving and locking member disposed at the end of said closed cylindrical portion opposite the end of said closed cylindrical portion terminating in said flange, said shaft receiving and locking member including an aperture having a keyway, a yoke, a receptacle member rotatably carried by said yoke, and a shaft provided with a mounting tang extending from said yoke, the distal end of said shaft being rotatably disposed within said journal box, the tang of said shaft being disposed intermediate said journal box and said aperture, and said tang being adapted to be aligned with the keyway of said aperture to permit withdrawal of said shaft from said mounting bracket.

2. A mounted receptacle as in claim 1 wherein said journal box is a member inserted within said closed cylindrical portion.

3. A mounted receptacle as in claim 2 wherein said receptacle member is adapted to receive a manually graspable object and wherein said receptacle member includes first and second elongated longitudinal slots, of sufficient width to permit manual grasping therethrough of a manually graspable object carried in said receptacle member, extending unobstructed from The top thereof to the bottom thereof whereby the manually graspable object carried in said receptacle member can be grasped to facilitate manual removal of that object from said receptacle member.