Drivers entertainer set

• US 5,320,321 A
• Filed: 03/14/1991
• Issued: 06/14/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cesar G. Muncada
• Original Assignee: Cesar G. Muncada
• Inventors: Muncada, Cesar G.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/669,347
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• Field of Search: 248/447.2, 248/448, 248/443, 248/444.1, 248/, 108/44, 108/45, 224/276, 84/291, 84/294, 84/295, 84/327
• US Class Current: 248/447.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/24 for particular purposes or particular vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/005 mounted on the steering wheel

Abstract

A driver'"'"'s entertainer set includes an integral lighting system (1) for illuminating the reader'"'"'s and player'"'"'s materials while at the driver'"'"'s seat or elsewhere at the motor vehicle remote fringes in an emergency inspection or repair. The book rest assembly (1a) can be tilted front and back and adjusted sideways to follow the angular or lateral spread of the books and other reading materials for user'"'"'s convenience. The resonator bar assembly (1b), through its holed resonator bars that allow tuned tensioned suspended strings way, and mounting, generates sound and vibrations triggered by fingers strumming against the strings, induces and propagated into the said bars, translated or converted into melodic, sound as felt by the attached transducers or nearby microphone for reproductive amplifications. The front hanger assembly (1c) supports and holds the driver'"'"'s entertainer set through its interconnective components such as the ridge or threaded shaft, sliding blocks, tubular housing, hanger sliding blocks, the corresponding mounting accessories of the one ended hook turnbuckle, keeping the said set at the motor vehicle steering wheel firmly in place. The secondary resonator bar (1d ) compliments the bars vibrating performance on one end or the other as said bars are interconnected by sets of strings to simulate and transfer vibrations carried; utilize, delayed, or even more intensified intervibrative reactions along and within the path of vibrative motions. The secondary resonator bar'"'"'s strings and the tertiary bar, is positioned to harness and utilize waves of harmonic micro-vibrations in its effort to maximize frequency spectrum usage as a result of said vibrations that are sensed and pick up by both transducers or microphones, and other monitoring devices.

Claims

1. The support assembly for attachment to the steering wheel of a vehicle wherein the support assembly comprises in combination a bookrest assembly, a resonator bar assembly and a front hanger assembly for attaching the support assembly to a vehicular steering wheel;

the book rest assembly further comprising a pair of upright parallel threaded rods and a hook holder member adjustably disposed on the parallel threaded rods, a threader coupler is threadedly attached to a lower end of each of the threaded rods and wherein each coupler is slideably mounted on a ridge shaft extending between the couplers;

the resonator bar assembly comprises a pair of resonator bars parallel to each other having a plurality of strings disposed therein, extending parallel to each other and attached at opposite ends to opposing resonator bars, the resonator bars and strings disposed in a plane that extends outwardly from the upwardly extending book rest assembly;

each of the resonator bars being disposed in a tubular housing, attached at one end to a clamp that is disposed on the ridge shaft and being attached at an opposite end to a sliding block;

the sliding blocks are movably disposed on a second shaft that extends parallel to the strings;

the clamp further includes a clip means for securing the support assembly to a steering wheel;

the front hanger assembly further comprises a pair of adjustable elongated means each rotatably attached at one end to a respective sliding block and having another clip means attached to the opposite end for attaching the adjustable elongated means to a steering wheel, wherein adjustment of the elongated means provides angular adjustment to the resonator bar assembly when attached to a steering wheel.

2. The support assembly of claim 1 wherein said second shaft has threads on an outer surface thereof.

3. The support assembly of claim 1 wherein said second shaft has ridges on an outer surface thereof.

4. A support assembly of claim 1 further comprising an auxiliary resonator bar assembly having a transducer mounted thereon.

5. The support assembly of claim 1, comprising a detachable lighting system mounted on a flexible stem secured to the book rest assembly.

6. The support assembly of claim 1, comprising a string slotted adjusting screw for suspending, tuning, retuning, and mounting the string to the resonator bars.

7. The support assembly of claim 6, comprising a resonator bar mounting screw securing each resonator bar within its respective tubular housing.

8. The support assembly of claim 7, comprising suspension springs encircling the bar mounting screw and disposed between an inside surface of the tubular housing and each side of the resonator bar.

9. The support assembly of claim 1 wherein the adjustable elongated means include turnbuckles to provide angular adjustments for the support assembly.