Computer monitor supporting bracket

• US 5,938,159 A
• Filed: 07/10/1997
• Issued: 08/17/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Teng-Shun Hung
• Original Assignee: Teng-Shun Hung
• Inventors: Hung, Teng-Shun
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wentsler, Stephen S.
• Application Number:
  US08/891,076
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 248/917, 248/918, 248/919, 248/920, 248/921, 248/922, 248/923, 248/371, 248/278.1, 248/289.11, 248/231.71, 248/281.11, 248/186.2, 248/284.1
• US Class Current: 248/278.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/0314 Platforms for supporting office equipment
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/048 adapted to forward-backward translation movement
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/2064 for tilting and panning F16M11/2078 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle

Abstract

A computer monitor supporting bracket has a main body, a locating seat, a supporting block, a clamping device, and a framework. The main body is provided with a flat top and a receiving groove at the bottom for the locating seat to be pivotally mounted thereon via a pin and an adjusting bolt. The adjusting bolt can be rotated to regulate the position of the engaged locating seat and the main body either upwards or downwards into a desirable angle. In addition, the supporting block is mounted to the locating seat via screws being secured to the bottom end of a stepped shaft. The stepped shaft pivotally joined to the locating seat and a washer permits the supporting block and the locating seat to be switched left and right correspondingly. A fending plate disposed at the one top side of the supporting block is abutted against the underside of the locating seat to provide the supporting force for bearing heavy load. Finally, a pivoting axle disposed at the bottom of the supporting block is pivotally joined to a threaded bolt of the clamping device and the framework pivotally to the main body via mounting members. The threaded bolt received within a housing and capped with a disk cover at the bottom works with a clipping arm to generate clamping force for securing purpose. The mounting members stopped by the protruding dots after being led through the extending feet of the framework and then turned over for 180° have slanting slopes at one side so that the framework can be turned by a certain angle when sustaining a keyboard or data sheets thereon.

Claims

1. A computer monitor supporting bracket comprising a main body, a locating seat, a supporting block, a clamping device, and a framework, wherein

said main body is provided with a flat surface at a top thereof and a receiving groove at a bottom side thereof, said receiving groove having pivot holes at one end of two lateral flanges thereof and a screw mount disposed therein at another end thereof, two opposite L-shaped slots being disposed at two front corners of said main body wherein each of said slots being provided with a pair of pivoting plates thereon;

said locating seat corresponding to said receiving groove has a protruding flange hole extending downwardly at one end through which a stepped shaft is led and joined to a washer, a bolt hole disposed at another end through which an adjusing bolt is passed and engaged with said screw mount of said receiving groove by a C-shaped ring, and two opposite through holes disposed at two lateral sides corresponding to said pivoting holes of said receiving groove;

said supporting block is an inverted L-shaped unit, having a pivoting axle disposed at a bottom end thereof, screw holes at one lateral plane, and a fending plate at one side of a top plane thereof;

said clamping device is comprised of a threaded bolt, a housing, and a clipping arm, said threaded bolt being led through said housing and engaged with said clipping arm via a threaded hole disposed at a top end of said clipping arm, a disk cover being further adapted and screwed up to a bottom end of said threaded bolt to be abutted against a bottom side of said housing;

thus, via said threaded bolt being rotatedly adjustable to regulate a corresponding distance between said housing and a bottom plane of said clipping arm, clamping force is generated for securing purpose;

in addition, an axle hole being provided at a top side of said threaded bolt;

said framework is a U-shaped rod bent upwardly at a front end, having protruding dots disposed at two extending feet of said U-shaped rod through which mounting members each defining an indented groove therewithin for matching to said protruding dot being first led and then turned over for 180 degrees for stopping said mounting members at the extending feet of said U-shaped rod;

in addition, a slanting slope being disposed at one side of each said mounting member;

whereby, said locating seat is mounted to said receiving groove of said main body via a pin at said one end and said adjusting bolt at another end, said pin pivotally joining said through holes of said locating seat and said pivot holes of said receiving groove, and said adjusting bolt passing through said bolt hole of said locating seat and said C-shaped ring to be engaged with said screw mount of said receiving groove, said adjusting bolt permitting pivoting adjustment of said main body relative to said locating seat into a desirable angle therebetween said supporting block is engaged with said locating seat with screws being passed through said screw holes of said supporting block to secure one side of said supporting block to a bottom end of said stepped shaft;

said stepped shaft pivotally joined to said protruding flange hole of the locating seat and said washer permits the engaged locating seat to be rotated relative to said supporting block, said fending plate disposed at one top side of the supporting block and being abutted against an underside of said locating seat to provide necessary supporting for bearing a heavy load said supporting block is pivotally mounted to the clamping device and the framework is pivotally mounted to the main body;

said pivoting axle of said supporting block capable of being pivotally engaged with the axle hole disposed at the top side of the threaded bolt of the clamping device, and said mounting members stopped at the extending feet of the framework of being joined to the pivoting plates of the L-shaped slots thereof;

the slanting slopes of said mounting members permitting the framework to be turned to a certain angle relative to the main body for use.