Reversible mount for a telephone

• US 5,529,271 A
• Filed: 12/20/1994
• Issued: 06/25/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Richard Dunchock
• Original Assignee: Richard Dunchock
• Inventors: Dunchock, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US08/359,398
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 224/483, 224/545, 224/555, 224/560, 224/567, 224/901, 379/454, 379/455, 379/450, 379/449, 379/446, 248/205.2, 248/205.1, 248/220.2, 248/221.3, 248/309.1
• US Class Current: 248/205.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0007 Mid-console
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0073 using key-type connections
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0077 using adhesive means, e.g. hook and loop fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0078 Quick-disconnect two-parts mounting means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0084 with adjustment by linear movement in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/929 Article carrier for electrical device

Abstract

A bracket mounting system encompasses both an apparatus and method enabling the mounting of a portable cellular phone in a manner which provides safety and utility to the user. The bracket system includes a bracket support which is attached to a vehicle dash or console from a pivoting hinge. The bracket support of the bracket system can reversibly engage the pivoting hinge to present either a first surface or a second surface to the driver. The first surface of the bracket support has a strike plate and some other engagement structure to facilitate the wear resistant mounting, removal, and re-mounting of a portable cellular phone. The second surface has a Velcro-type material, preferably of hook members, which engage a complementary surface of hook members which may be attached to a portable cellular phone.

Claims

1. A support for a cellular telephone comprising:

a bracket support, having a first side, a second side and defining a continuous surface between said sides, said continuous surface defining an aperture extending into said support parallel to said first and second sides;

a strike plate affixed to said first side of said bracket support;

an area of one of loop and hook members affixed to said second side of said bracket support; and

a female bracket affixed to said strike plate.

2. The support recited in claim 1 wherein said strike plate has a plurality of threaded apertures and said female bracket has mounting holes in alignment with associated said apertures and further comprising mounting screws engaging said mounting holes with said threaded apertures.

3. The support recited in claim 1 wherein said female bracket defines a main surface in a first plane and wherein said female bracket has a pair of mounting surfaces in a second plane parallel to said first plane, and oppositely disposed with respect to said main surface.

4. The support recited in claim 3 wherein said female bracket is formed from a single piece of material.

5. The support recited in claim 3 wherein said bracket support is vertically oblong and where said female bracket forms a vertically extending open ended aperture with respect to said strike plate.

6. The support recited in claim 3 wherein said female bracket defines a central aperture and a spring member at an angle to one of said mounting surfaces.

7. The support recited in claim 2 wherein said female bracket defines a first slot adjacent said strike plate on a first side of said female bracket, a second slot partially bounding and adjacent said first slot and adjacent a second side of said female bracket.

8. A cellular telephone support kit including the support of claim 1 and further comprising a male bracket interfitting with said female bracket and attachable to a cellular telephone.

9. The cellular telephone support kit of claim 8 further comprising an area of the other of said loop members and said hook members.

10. The kit of claim 8 further comprising a hinge interfittable with the aperture of said support.

11. The kit of claim 10 wherein said support pivots on the hinge along a planar moment of angular displacement about a line parallel to a sides of said support.

12. The kit of claim 8 wherein said male bracket comprising a planar support having a first side being attachable to a cellular telephone and a second side having an extension defining a button from the second side which engages said female bracket.

13. The kit of claim 8 wherein said male bracket comprising a generally rectangular shape having a first portion having a first side in a first plane and a second portion having a first side in a second plane offset from said first plane of said first portion, and wherein the second portion is approximately one half the thickness of said first portion, the second portion to interfit the female bracket when the first side of said first portion is attached to a cellular telephone.

14. The kit of claim 8 wherein male bracket has a first planar surface and a second planar surface parallel to and set apart from said first planar surface.

15. A cellular telephone support including the support of claim 1 wherein said bracket support has an area of loop members and further comprising an area of hook material having a first side attachable to a cellular telephone and a second side and matable with the area of loop members.

16. A support for a cellular telephone comprising:

a bracket support, having a first side, a second side and defining a continuous surface between said sides;

a strike plate affixed to said first side of said bracket support having a plurality of threaded apertures;

an area of loop members affixed to said second side of said support;

a female bracket having mounting holes;

mounting screws engaging said mounting holes and threaded apertures, and affixing said female bracket to said strike plate; and

a hinge attaching to said bracket support such that the bracket support pivots on the hinge along a planar moment of angular displacement about a line parallel to the sides of said support.

17. The support recited in claim 16 wherein the continuous surface of the bracket support defines an aperture extending into said support;

and

wherein the hinge interfits within the aperture of said support.

18. The support recited in claim 16 wherein said female bracket defines a main surface in a first plane and wherein said female bracket has a pair of mounting surfaces in a second plane parallel to said first plane oppositely disposed with respect to said main surface;

and

further comprising a male bracket having a first planar surface and a second planar surface parallel to said main planar surface, the first planar surface to interfit the female bracket when the second planar surface is attached to a cellular telephone.

19. The support recited in claim 16 where the bracket support is vertically oblong and where said female bracket forms a vertically extending open ended aperture with respect to said strike plate;

and

further comprising a male bracket having a planar support being attachable to a cellular telephone on one side and having an essentially central extension from the other side which interfits with said female bracket.

20. The support recited in claim 16 wherein said female bracket defines a main surface in a first plane and wherein said female bracket has a pair of mounting surfaces in a second plane parallel to said first plane oppositely disposed with respect to said main surface;

and

further comprising a male bracket member attached to a cellular telephone, interfitting and pivoting with respect to said female bracket.

21. The support recited in claim 16 where the bracket support is vertically oblong and where said female bracket forms a vertically extending open ended aperture with respect to said strike plate;

and

further comprising a planar member attached to a cellular telephone interfitting said female bracket.

22. The support recited in claim 16 where the support is used with a vehicle and where the hinge attaches the bracket support to the interior of the vehicle.