Automobile clip board and light unit

• US 4,842,235 A
• Filed: 04/25/1988
• Issued: 06/27/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: George Spector, Robert L Brown
• Original Assignee: George Spector, Robert L Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Robert L., Spector, George
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin-Shue, Alvin C.
• Application Number:
  US07/186,028
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: 248/452, 248/447.1, 248/441.1, 248/442.2, 248/447.2, 108/45, 108/44, 362/98, 362/99, 362/183
• US Class Current: 248/447.2
• CPC Class Codes: B43L 3/001 with illuminating devices
• CPC Class Codes: B43L 3/008 with supporting means bracelets with means for attaching a writing instrument or a memo pad A44C5/0046; for attachment to shopping trolleys B62B3/1428
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/005 mounted on the steering wheel

Abstract

An illuminated clipboard for a motor vehicle is provided that includes a male cigarette lighter adapter plug which is placed into a female cigarette lighter socket on a dashboard for supply power to a lamp of the clipboard. The male adapter plug stabilizes the clipboard so that a person can see information and write on the clipboard.

Claims

1. An illuminated clipboard for a motor vehicle which comprises:

(a) a generally rectangular flat faced panel;

(b) a spring biased clip mounted onto front surface near upper end of said panel for engaging and retaining articles thereto;

(c) a flange formed onto the front surface across lower end of said panel for holding additional articles thereon;

(d) a male cigarette lighter adapter plug transversely mounted centrally to rear surface of said panel so that then said adapter plug is placed into a female cigarette lighter socket on a dashboard of the motor vehicle, said panel will be held thereto viewing by a person in the motor vehicle; and

(e) a lamp electrically connected to said male adapter plug so that said lamp can illuminate the articles on said panel of said clipboard;

(f) said panel having a curved upper end, and a curved lower end;

(g) a collar formed centrally at the rear surface of said panel and having a plurality of radial ribs extending from said collar along the rear surface thereof for strengthening said panel, whereby said male adapter plug is detachable from said collar;

(h) a plurality of set screws, each threadable into said collar for securing and releasing a distal end of said male adapter plug in said collar;

(i) a plurality of finger hooks extending from the curved upper end and the curved lower end of said panel so that said panel can be removably attached to a steering wheel of the motor vehicle

(j) a ledge formed onto the front surface at the upper end of said panel so that said lamp can be pivotly connected to said ledge;

(k) said male adapter plug having an auxiliary female cigarette lighter socket transversely connected therein; and

(l) an auxiliary male cigarette lighter adapter plug electrically connected to said lamp so that said auxiliary male adapter plug can be placed into said auxiliary female socket when said collar is connected to said male adapter plug and said auxiliary male adapter plug can be placed into said female cigarette lighter socket on the dashboard of the motor vehicle when said finger hooks on said panel are connected to the steering wheel of the motor vehicle.