Detachable mounting clip arrangement for miniature portable apparatus or the like

• US 4,083,481 A
• Filed: 03/10/1977
• Issued: 04/11/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Selinko, George Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Blix, Trygve M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Forsberg, Jerold M.
• Application Number:
  US05/776,324
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 224/5 H, 224/5 R, 224/5 A, 224/26 R, 224/26 B, 224/5 S, 224/5 V, 325/16, 325/111, 325/117, 325/118, 325/352, 24/3 R, 24/3 A, 24/3 C, 24/3 F, 24/3 G, 24/3 H, 24/3 J, 24/3 L, 24/11 R
• US Class Current: 224/670
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/021 to the belt
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/088 with parts of the receiver detachable or collapsible
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/93 Attached to animate bearer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1391 Article held by clip with spring [e.g., leaf, coil] member

Abstract

A detachable mounting clip arrangement is disclosed especially suited for application with miniaturized radio apparatus or the like of the type intended to be worn on the person such as on a belt or in the shirt pocket. The clip arrangement includes a tapered base plate assembly designed to insert within a recess formed by two convergent undercut side walls on the apparatus housing itself and retained therein by a ratchet like serrated section included on the housing surface which interacts with a resilient finger extending laterally from the base plate. The base plate itself is designed to support a conventional pivotable mounting clip assembly and associated torsion spring.

Claims

1. A detachable mounting clip arrangement especially suited for use with a portable, hand-held apparatus to be worn on the person, including in combination:

a housing;

a raised ridge on said housing with undercut side walls forming a three-sided tapered recess open at one end, said housing further having a plurality of serrations displaced from said walls;

a base plate dimensioned to insert within said undercut side walls of said raised ridge tapered recess and having a laterally extending resilient finger releasably engaging a selected one of said housing serrations to lock said base plate in engagement with said housing;

an elongated mounting clip; and

means for pivotably securing said mounting clip to said base plate.

2. A detachable mounting clip arrangement in accordance with claim 1 wherein the means for pivotably securing the mounting clip to the base plate includes a pair of upstanding projections on said base plate with a central opening therein and a corresponding pair of projections on said mounting clip having similar openings therein and a lock pin insertable in said openings of said projections on said base plate and mounting clip.

3. A detachable mounting clip arrangement in accordance with claim 2 wherein a torsion spring is mounted on said lock pin to provide a set spring bias for said mounting clip.