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Overhead support system for TV monitors

  • US 5,009,384 A
  • Filed: 06/29/1990
  • Issued: 04/23/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An overhead support system for TV monitors for use on buses and the like comprising:

  • (a) a shoe carrying cable means for the TV monitor, the cable means electrically associated with an electrical contact means exposed on an outer surface of the shoe, the shoe having sides provided with guide and support means positioned to mateably slide in cooperating guide and support means in the upper part of a TV monitor housing, into seated position with the shoe electrical contact means electrically engaging corresponding electrical contact means on the TV monitor housing;

    (b) support means in the form of a pipe secured at one end to and upwardly extending from the shoe, the shoe cable means extending through the pipe, the pipe to extend through an aperture in an overhead support frame;

    (c) shock absorbing means to be supported on the overhead support frame and having an aperture through which the pipe is to extend; and

    (d) anchor means to sit on the shock absorbing means and releasably engage the other end of the pipe to hold the shoe firmly in position on the overhead support frame.

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