Support stand for an appliance

• US 3,913,880 A
• Filed: 03/28/1974
• Issued: 10/21/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph A. Lucasey, William L. Boscacci
• Original Assignee: Joseph A. Lucasey, William L. Boscacci
• Inventors: Lucasey, Joseph A., Boscacci, William L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Application Number:
  US05/455,920
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 248/415,203,278,418 70/371,231,232 211/4,8,9 312/7TV 297/349
• US Class Current: 248/415
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/22 with approximately constant height, e.g. with constant length of column or of legs F16M11/42 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/024 by positive interaction, e.g. male-female connections
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5867 Encased

Abstract

A support stand with a locking mechanism for supporting and securing a television receiver or other appliance placed in a motel guest room. The support stand includes a base securable to a floor, a columnar post secured to the base, a platform assembly pivotally connectable to the distal end of the post and a locking mechanism for releasably securing the platform assembly to the post permitting only authorized removal of the receiver from the stand.

Claims

1. An appliance support stand comprising:

a base having means for fixedly securing said base to a pre-existing support surface;

a mounting unit connected to said base, said mounting unit including a socket for receiving a spindle, and, a locking mechanism having a key operated displaceable bolt extendible into said socket; and

, a support platform having a projecting spindle insertable and rotatable in said socket, said spindle having a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to said support platform, means for fastening said support platform to an appliance, a cover shield arranged between said support platform and said mounting unit concealing said fastening means, said cover shield having first coupling means on said cover shield and said support platform having second coupling means on said support platform, said first coupling means being slidably cooperative with said second coupling means for engaging said cover shield to said support platform, and at least one machine screw which fastens said cover shield to said support stand, said machine screw being positioned such that it is concealed between said mounting unit and said cOver shield;

wherein said spindle includes a peripheral channel formed to receive said displaceable bolt in all angular orientations about said longitudinal axis of said spindle when said spindle is inserted in said socket, said spindle being rotatable in said socket and inhibited from withdrawal from said socket by said bolt.

2. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said first coupling means and second coupling means are spatialy arranged substantially at the periphery of said cover shield and support platform.

3. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said first coupling means comprises projecting rivets having an elevated rivet head on said cover shield and said second coupling means comprises keyhole slots in said support platform.

4. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said means for fixedly securing said base to a pre-existing support surface comprises an expansion bolt.

5. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said socket and said spindle have cooperatively beveled surfaces.

6. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said mounting unit includes a circular slot and said machine screw has a projecting head received in said slot in all angular orientations of said support platform about said longitudinal axis of said spindle.

7. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said locking mechanism includes a key and a tumbler mechanism for selective operation of said key operated bolt.

8. The support stand of claim 1 further comprising a columnal post fixed between said mounting unit and said base and elevating said mounting unit from said base.

9. The support stand of claim 8 wherein said means for fixedly securing said base to a pre-existing support surface is concealed within said base and said columnar post.

10. The support stand of claim 1 wherein said mounting unit and said base comprise a unitary structure.

11. The support stand of claim 10 wherein said means for fixedly securing said base to a pre-existing support surface is concealed by said support platform and cover shield.