Audio speaker mounts for off-road vehicles

• US 5,608,806 A
• Filed: 08/25/1994
• Issued: 03/04/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Christy A. Cassel
• Original Assignee: Christy A. Cassel
• Inventors: Hinojosa, Ruben Z.
• Primary Examiner(s): BRINICH, STEPHEN M
• Application Number:
  US08/295,986
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 381/86-88, 381/24
• US Class Current: 381/86
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0217 for loud-speakers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0022 Pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/004 outside the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0096 Theft prevention of articles
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/02 Spatial or constructional arrangements of loudspeakers

Abstract

Audio speaker assembly mounts for a vehicle, and particularly an open vehicle, such as an off-road vehicle, to provide improved audio sound to the passengers of the vehicle and to prevent theft of the speakers mounted in the normally opened vehicle. The mounts include speaker box kits that are affixed to sport rollbars of the vehicle, and consist of at least one pair of elongated shells fixedly secured together in a watertight configuration to a section of the rollbars, and has at least on locking element therein so as to secure the kits together and to the rollbars as well as secure the speakers and other equipment held within the elongated shells.

Claims

1. A speaker mounting assembly having an interior surface and an exterior surface for mounting to a rollbar of a vehicle comprising, in combination:

a substantially elongated first shell and a substantially elongated second shell;

means for securing said first and second substantially elongated shells to and around said rollbar of said vehicle;

at least one speaker mounted to an opening formed in one of said first and second shells;

a plurality of further securing means cooperating with a plurality of aligned openings in said first and second shells to secure said first and second shells together; and

means for locking said first and second substantially elongated shells together to prevent their unauthorized removal from said rollbar.

2. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 1 wherein there are two speaker mounting assemblies secured to said rollbar.

3. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 2 wherein their are two locking means locking said secured together shells of said two speaker mounting assemblies together to prevent their unauthorized removal from said rollbar.

4. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 2 wherein each of said substantially elongated first and second shells is sized and dimensioned to fit snugly around said rollbar so as to be firmly clamped thereto by said plurality of securing means, and wherein a stop means is formed to the interior surface of said speaker mounting assembly to prevent movement of said speaker mounting assembly.

5. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 4, wherein said substantially elongated first shell is a larger rear shell and said substantially elongated second shell is a smaller front shell.

6. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 5 wherein said at least one speaker is secured in an opening formed in said smaller front shell.

7. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 6 wherein said smaller front shell is inclined so as to direct sound emanating from said at least one speaker mounted therein into the passenger area of said vehicle.

8. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 5, wherein said larger rear shell overlaps said smaller front shell so as to make said assembled speaker mounting assembly substantially water-resistant.

9. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 8, further including a keyhole formed to said locking means to allow said locking mechanism to only be actuated by a key.

10. A speaker mounting assembly mounted to a rollbar of vehicle comprising, in combination:

a substantially elongated larger first shell and a substantially elongated smaller second shell;

a pair of the larger first shells and a pair of the smaller second shells secured to and around said rollbar of said vehicle;

at least one speaker mounted to an opening formed in each of the smaller second shells;

a plurality of securing means cooperating with a plurality of aligned openings in each of said larger first shells and said smaller second shells to secure said larger first shells to said smaller second shells to said rollbar in different positions; and

means for locking each of the larger first shells and smaller second shells together to prevent their unauthorized removal from said rollbar.

11. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 10 wherein their are two locking means locking said larger first and said smaller second shells together on said rollbar to prevent their unauthorized removal.

12. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 11 wherein each of said larger first shells and said smaller second shells is sized and dimensioned to fit snugly around said rollbar so as to be firmly clamped thereto by said plurality of securing means, and wherein a stop means is formed to the interior surface of each of said speaker mounting assemblies to prevent movement thereof on said rollbar.

13. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 12, wherein there are two speakers and one of said two speakers is secured in an opening formed in each of said smaller second shells.

14. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 13 wherein to second face of each of said smaller front shells is inclined so as to direct sound emanating from said at least one speaker mounted therein into the passenger area of said vehicle.

15. The speaker mounting assembly of claim 12, wherein each of said larger first shells overlaps one of said smaller second shells so as to make each of the secured together speaker mounting assemblies formed thereby substantially water-resistant.

16. A pair of speaker mounting assemblies for a vehicle rollbar comprising in combination:

a pair of substantially elongated larger first shells and a pair of substantially elongated smaller second shells;

one each of the larger first shells and one each of the smaller second shells sized and dimensioned so as to be secured together and around said vehicle rollbar;

at least one speaker mounted to an opening formed in each of the smaller second shells;

a plurality of securing means cooperating with a plurality of aligned openings in each of said larger first shells and said smaller second shells to secure said larger first shells to said smaller second shells in overlapping relationship on said rollbar; and

locking means holding said larger first shells and said smaller second shells together to prevent the unauthorized removal of said larger first shells and said smaller second shells from said rollbar.

17. The pair of speaker mounting assemblies of claim 16, wherein there are at least two locking means locking said larger first shells and said smaller second shells together on said rollbar.

18. The pair of speaker mounting assemblies of claim 17 wherein each of said larger first shells and said smaller second shells is sized and dimensioned to fit snugly around said rollbar so as to be firmly clamped thereto by said plurality of securing means, and wherein a stop means is formed in an interior surface of each of said pair of speaker mounting assemblies to prevent movement thereof on said rollbar.

19. The pair of speaker mounting assemblies of claim 18, wherein said at least one speaker is secured in an opening formed in each of said smaller second shells.

20. The pair of speaker mounting assemblies of claim 19 wherein each of said smaller front shells has an inclined front face and each of the inclined front faces directs sound emanating from said at least one speaker mounted therein into the passenger area of said vehicle.