Cord reel and writing pad attachment for telephones

• US 3,953,688 A
• Filed: 12/09/1974
• Issued: 04/27/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dominica R. Rocha
• Original Assignee: Dominica R. Rocha
• Inventors: Rocha, Dominica R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Thomas A.
• Application Number:
  US05/530,510
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 179/147, 179/178, 179/154, 179/155, 179/100 R, 179/100 C, 179/100 D, 40/336, 40/10 R, 281/15 B
• US Class Current: 379/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/15 Protecting or guiding telephone cords
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads

Abstract

An attachment or accessory for a telephone is disclosed herein for automatically reeling the cord to maintain its length short and for providing a writing pad including backing surface and pencil holder. The attachment includes a snap-lock fastener for detachably connecting the attachment to the housing of the telephone. The device further includes a resilient element for biasing the cord so as to take-up its length about a spool or reel operably mounted on a case or housing. A roll of writing paper is disposed beneath the writing surface and feeds through a slot for use across the writing surface. The pencil or pen holder is a part of the snap-lock fastener.

Claims

1. A telephone accessory combination for coiling a length of telephone cord and for providing a note paper and writing implement holder comprising:

a housing having an upper edge defining the entrance into an internal cavity;

a reel rotatably carried on said housing within said cavity;

spring means normally biasing said reel to coil said cord therearound;

a writing panel carried on said housing;

a supply of paper rotatably carried on said housing and within said cavity and having a length of paper extending across said writing panel;

snap-lock fastener means detachably connecting said housing about its upper edge to a conventional telephone housing;

an end piece defining one end of said housing;

slots formed in said end piece for movably passing portions of said telephone cord; and

said fastener means including inwardly projecting elements carried on said end piece and said writing panel opposing each other in resilient relationship so as to snap-lock about the opposite ends of said telephone housing.

2. The invention as defined in claim 1 including an up-standing plate carried on said writing panel having a U-shaped member carried thereon and said U-shaped member constituting a part of said snap-lock fastener means.

3. The invention as defined in claim 2 including sufficient storage area within said cavity to accommodate at least 40 feet of telephone cord about said reel.

4. The invention as defined in claim 3 wherein said end piece is detachably connectable to said housing so as to close one end of said housing cavity.

5. The invention as defined in claim 4 including an inwardly projecting flange carried on said end piece cooperating with said U-shaped member to snap-lock said telephone housing therebetween.