Bathtub book holding device

• US 5,707,036 A
• Filed: 06/11/1996
• Issued: 01/13/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ronald Dunbar
• Original Assignee: Ronald Dunbar
• Inventors: Dunbar, Ronald
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US08/661,354
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 248/444, 248/444.1, 248/447, 248/447.2, 248/451, 248/452, 248/458, 248/230.2, 248/231.31, 248/292.12, 248/229.2, 248/229.22, 403/400
• US Class Current: 248/447.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 23/02 releasably mounted on the bedstead or another item of furniture

Abstract

A bathtub book holding device that includes a bathtub rim clamping member with adjustable grasping legs and a top platform circular post to telescopically receive a T-shaped tubular connector which also receives telescopically a supporting beam member affixed to a rectangular planar book supporting member; the T-shaped connector replaceable with offset adjustable and non adjustable cross fittings to enhance vertical, horizontal and angular rectangular planar book supporting member ideal placement.

Claims

1. A bathtub book holding device comprising:

a bathtub rim clamping member having a lower inverted L-shaped component with a platform portion and an upper inverted L-shaped component with a platform portion arranged so that said platform portions overlap to result in upper and lower adjacent platforms, and are affixed by a threaded bolt shank that extends upwards from said lower inverted L-shaped component platform through a centrally disposed longitudinal slot in said upper L-shaped component platform where a threaded clamping knob is rotated around said threaded bolt shank to immobilize and secure said L-shaped components in a bathtub rim grasping position; and

said upper L-shaped component platform end portion having a circular post that receives a paddle shaped cup holder and a leg portion of said inverted L-shaped component having a centrally located threaded aperture to receive a threaded bolt with a distal knob end and proximal end affixed with resilient material so that rotating said knob handle will move said resilient material against a bathtub wall and further immobilize and secure said clamping member to a bathtub rim;

a T-shaped tubular fitting member providing telescopic connecting means to said L-shaped component platform end portion circular post and to a supporting bean, said T-shaped tubular fitting having a stem portion aperture to receive a flat end thumb screw that is turned to secure said T-shaped tubular fitting to said circular post and having a horizontal portion aperture to receive a flat end thumb screw that is turned to secure said T-shaped tubular fitting to said supporting beam; and

a rectangular planar book supporting member secured to said supporting beam by bolt means and having top and bottom mounted clamping means and top and bottom book supporting ledges.

2. The bathtub book holding device of claim 1, wherein said supporting beam and said circular post are telescopically received, respectively, by an offset cross fitting member horizontal portion and an offset cross fitting member vertical portion where said horizontal portion is secured to said supporting beam by screw means and where said vertical portion is slidingly adjustable to an ideal height and then secured by screw means to said circular post being at least three inches in height.

3. The bathtub book holding device of claim 1, wherein said circular post is secured by screw means to a rectangular plate which is anchored to a bathtub rim by adhesive means.

4. The bathtub book holding device of claim 1, wherein said rectangular planar book support member supporting beam connector means has top and bottom interlocking grooved disks connected to said supporting beam distal end by a clamping knob fitted with a stud insert having a plain distal portion and a threaded proximal portion for rotatably tightening said clamping knob to interlock said top and bottom disks and affix said supporting beam and said interlocking grooved disks to said rectangular planar book support back surface, said top interlocking grooved disk having a half circle depression to contain said supporting beam.

5. The bathtub book holding device of claim 1, wherein said bathtub rim clamping member is fitted with inner surface padding strips that adhere to the bathtub rim clamping member inner surface by a reattachable adhesive for instant adjustment of said padding strips to accommodate bathtub rim projections by providing adequate receiving spaces.

6. A bathtub book holding device comprising:

a bathtub rim clamping member having a lower inverted L shaped component with a platform portion and an upper inverted L-shaped component with a platform portion arranged so that said platform portions overlap to result in upper and lower adjacent platforms, and are affixed by a threaded bolt shank that extends upwards from said lower inverted L-shaped component platform through a centrally disposed longitudinal slot in said upper L-shaped component platform where a threaded clamping knob is rotated around said threaded bolt shank to immobilize and secure said L-shaped components in a bathtub rim grasping position; and

said upper L-shaped component platform end portion having a circular post that receives a paddle shaped cup holder and a leg portion of said inverted L-shaped component having a centrally located threaded aperture to receive a threaded bolt with a distal knob end and proximal end affixed with resilient material so that rotating said knob handle will move said resilient material against a bathtub wall and further immobilize and secure said clamping member to a bathtub rim;

an adjustable offset cross fitting member having a first tubular fitting with a right side arm, the first tubular fitting received by said circular post and the right side arm rotatably inserted into a lower horizontal portion of a second cross shaped tubular fitting whose upper horizontal portion telescopically receives a supporting beam; and

a rectangular planar book supporting member secured to said supporting beam by bolt means and having top and bottom mounted clamping means and top and bottom book supporting ledges.