Support for car radios, cassette players, tuners and similar equipment

• US 4,660,900 A
• Filed: 05/21/1985
• Issued: 04/28/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Autosonik SPA
• Original Assignee: Autosonil SPA
• Inventors: Paterlini, Elio
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Falk, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US06/736,646
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 248/27.1, 248/551, 248/552, 248/553, 312/7.1, 312/12, 312/319
• US Class Current: 312/7.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0071 using latches, clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0075 using a containment or docking space

Abstract

Support for car radios, casette players, tuners and similar equipment suited to being firmly mounted on the dash-boards of vehicles, boats and similar and to completely hide the equipment fitted, including a box-like body complete with means for anchoring to the dash-board seat and two sliding side guides, a front cover hinged to the front edge of the said box-like body; a support for the equipment to be installed which slides in the side guides a spring and a trip engaging device both arranged between the rear sides of the box-like body and of the sliding support respectively.

Claims

1. A support for equipment of the type of car radios, cassette players, tuners and the like suitable for mounting firmly on the dashboard of a vehicle and the like, which comprises:

a box having a front wall, a bottom, a top, a rear wall and side walls, and being open at the front wall, means for anchoring said box to the dashboard of said vehicle, channels on said bottom and a hook protruding into the interior of said box from the rear wall,

a mobile structure slidable in said box through said open front wall, said mobile structure carrying said equipment and consisting of a frame having a rear wall, side walls, a bottom and sliding ledges on said bottom, said ledges adapted to engage with said channels when the mobile structure is mounted within said box and when the rear wall of the mobile structure is aligned with the rear wall of the box, said mobile structure having a trip hitch, said trip hitch having a recess and a tab, said trip hitch extending from the rear wall of said mobile structure, for coupling with said hook which extends from said box when said hook engages with said recess and for uncoupling with said hook upon application of pressure whereby said hook slides on the surface of said tab,

a front cover releasably hinged to the front wall of said box, said front cover having a pair of lugs pivoted on said ledges,

a spring positioned between the rear wall of said box and the rear wall of said mobile structure, said spring being compressed therebetween when the mobile structure is mounted within the box and expanding and pushing the mobile structure outwardly when pressure is applied on the front cover and the mobile structure is released from the box,

a pair of lever members pivoted on said lugs at one end and pivoted on said ledges of the mobile structure at the opposite end.

2. The support according to claim 1 wherein said trip hitch comprises a slanting plate provided with said recess, a second spring and a tab, said hook sliding in said recess when pressure is applied to mount said mobile structure within said box and when the mobile structure is released, said hook being placed on said tab.

3. The support, according to claim 1 wherein a spacer is applied in the front wall of the box to increase its depth.

4. The support, according to claim 1 wherein a thief alarm device consisting of an electro-magnetic latch is fixed to the interior surface of said rear wall of said box, said latch being engageable with said rear wall of the mobile structure.

5. The support according to claim 1 wherein when the mobile structure is mounted within said box, said front cover is closed and said equipment is hidden from view.