Article-holding strap assembly for automobile sun visor

• US 5,429,335 A
• Filed: 11/30/1993
• Issued: 07/04/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kevin J. Cunningham
• Original Assignee: Kevin J. Cunningham
• Inventors: Cunningham, Kevin J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US08/159,154
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 224/42.42 R, 248/231.8, 248/231.7, 248/301, 248/316.7, 248/316.1, 248/905, 248/689
• US Class Current: 248/229.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/002 of trays
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/05 mounted on sun visor

Abstract

A strap assembly for holding articles such as road maps against a surface such as an automobile sun visor is held in position by end mounts, each including a looped connector having a flat loop engaged by a loop of the strap end and an eye swiveled on a pivot attached to and extending between a faceplate and a mounting member such as a strip spring clip, a pressure-sensitive adhesive backplate or a suction cup. Decorative overlays can be interchangeably attached to the faceplate such as by pressure-sensitive adhesive, by a slide or by spring clips. The length of the holding strap can be adjusted and held in adjusted condition by spring finger clasps holding the end portions of the strap to form loops.

Claims

1. An article-holding attachment adapted to be mounted adjacent to a surface and including a strap assembly, the improvement comprising mounting means for opposite ends of such strap assembly, each of said mounting means including a loop connector engaged by an end portion of the mounting strap assembly and having an eye, a faceplate, a mounting member spaced from said faceplate, and a pivot extending through said eye of said loop connector and bridging between and having its opposite ends adhered to said faceplate and to said mounting member, respectively.

2. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 1, in which the mounting member includes a suction cup.

3. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 1, in which the mounting member includes an adhesive plate.

4. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 1, in which the mounting member includes a clip securable to an edge portion of an automobile sun visor.

5. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 4, in which the faceplate has an edge flange and the clip is attached to said edge flange.

6. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 5, in which the flange is of considerable length in the direction parallel to the faceplate and is engageable with an edge portion of the sun visor when the clip is applied to such sun visor edge portion.

7. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 1, in which an end portion of the pivot is flared toward the end of said end portion.

8. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 1, and overlay means attachable to the faceplate and overlying the side of the faceplate remote from the pivot.

9. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 8, in which the overlay means includes a plate adhesively bonded to the faceplate.

10. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 8, in which the overlay means includes a plate having clips for securing said plate to the edge of the faceplate.

11. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 8, in which the overlay means includes a plate having slide connector means for connecting said plate to the faceplate.

12. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 1, and clasp means for holding an end portion of the strap in loop form.

13. The article-holding attachment defined in claim 12, in which the clasp means includes a backing plate and three resilient prongs projecting alongside said backing plate in cantilever fashion from one edge of said backing plate at locations spaced lengthwise of said backing plate.