Bar antenna holder

• US 3,918,671 A
• Filed: 11/26/1974
• Issued: 11/11/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Akira Mizusawa
• Original Assignee: Akira Mizusawa
• Inventors: Mizusawa, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Application Number:
  US05/527,332
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 248/285,286,298,299,279,287,293,295,296 108/102 343/702 403/109,59,112 248/326,333
• US Class Current: 248/285.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1228 on a boom

Abstract

To a cabinet to which an antenna is desired to be attached, there is fastened a fixing member which has an arc housing formed in the front wall and a through aperture at the bottom to admit an arm plate. Through said through aperture is inserted the arm plate which is provided at one end thereof with a cylindrical supporting body. The cylindrical supporting body contains therein a socket adapted to receive a cylindrical holding member. The cylindrical holding member through which an antenna is passed and held in position is set into rotatable engagement with the socket of said cylindrical supporting body. When the cabinet is to be moved or packed, the antenna can be stowed in close proximity to the cabinet by pushing the arm plate through the aperture. When the antenna is put to use, it is suitably separated from the cabinet by pulling the arm plate out through the aperture so that it can be turned and set into a desired direction in which the highest effects of reception are obtained.

Claims

1. A three piece holder for bar antennas which comprise an adapter base adapted for mounting on a cabinet and including an arcuate housing element extending outwardly from said base, said arc housing having an apeRture formed therein within the margins of said arcuate housing, a supporting arm member mounted on said base plate and consisting of an arm inserted within the aperture in said arc housing and capable of a sliding movement relative to said adapter base, said supporting arm member having an integral cylindrical supporting body provided at the opposite end of said arm member and having a dimension such that it is nestable in the arcuate housing as the arm is moved inwardly through said aperture, and a cylindrical holding member providing a housing to accept a bar antenna and having projecting from its outer wall a fastener element, said supporting body being provided with a stepped bore therein receiving the fastener of said cylindrical holding member to permit relative rotation of said cylindrical holding member relative to said supporting arm member, the assembly permitting relative movement of said bar antenna relative to the cabinet on which said assembly is adapted to be mounted.

2. A device of the type described in claim 1 wherein said arcuate housing member is an arc of a circle more than 180* in circumference and said cylindrical holding member which has a diameter equal to the internal diameter of said arcuate housing member may be snapped into and retained in fixed position within said arcuate housing member when the arm on which said cylindrical holding member is formed is moved through the aperture in the arcuate housing member to a retracted position.