Holster for a bed monitor electronic control module

• US 6,065,727 A
• Filed: 12/03/1998
• Issued: 05/23/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: JT Posey Company (TIDI Holdings LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bed-Check Corporation (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fitzgerald, Sanford G., Lovely, Patrick W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US09/205,050
• Time in Patent Office: 537 Days
• Field of Search: 248/309.1, 248/311.2, 248/314, 248/302, 248/303, 248/175, 248/95, 248/97, D 6/567
• US Class Current: 248/302
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/041 by electric motors

Abstract

A holster for a bed monitor electric control module consists of two substantially rigid continuous wire loops bent into identical inverted-Ls of height less than a height of the module and held in back-to-back spaced apart relationship by upper and lower substantially rigid parallel wire cross members fixed to rearward vertical portions of the inverted-Ls. The cross members are of length and the upper horizontal portions of the inverted-Ls are of contour so as to constrain horizontal movement of a module which is inserted downwardly therein and seated on the lower horizontal portions of the inverted-Ls. A hanger is formed from a resiliently flexible wire bent into a configuration compatible with the holster and which can be flexed to permit insertion cf the hanger into the holster, manipulation of the hanger within the holster and release of the hanger into interlocking relationship with the holster so as to constrain movement of the holster relative to the hanger. To disengage the hanger from the holster, the hanger is again flexed, manipulated and withdrawn from the holster.

Claims

1. A holster for a module comprising:

first and second substantially rigid continuous wire loops bent into identical inverted-Ls of height adapted to be less than a height of the module and arranged in back-to-back spaced apart relationship;

upper and lower substantially rigid parallel wire cross members fixed to rearward vertical portions of said inverted-Ls, said cross members being of length and upper horizontal portions of said inverted-Ls being of contour adapted to constrain horizontal movement of the module when the module is inserted downwardly therebetween and is seated on lower horizontal portions of said inverted-Ls; and

means connectable to said holster for hanging said holster from another structure.

2. A holster according to claim 1, said hanging means comprising upper and lower loop clamps engaged on said upper and lower cross members, respectively, and means for fastening said clamps to a vertical planar surface.

3. A holster for a module comprising:

first and second substantially rigid continuous wire loops bent into identical inverted-L'"'"'s of height less than a height of the module and arranged in back-to-back spaced apart relationship;

upper and lower substantially rigid parallel wire cross members fixed to rearward vertical portions of said inverted-L'"'"'s, said cross members being of length and upper horizontal portions of said inverted-L'"'"'s being of contour so as to constrain horizontal movement of the module inserted downwardly therebetween when the module is seated on lower horizontal portions of said inverted-L'"'"'s; and

a resiliently flexible wire having end portions thereof bent into spaced-apart hooks with vertical shanks, said hooks extending rearwardly and upwardly from lower ends of said shanks and said shanks having upper ends bent to extend rearwardly and then outwardly, a length of said shanks being substantially equal to a distance from a bottom of said lower cross member to a top of said upper cross member and a distance between outer ends of said outwardly extending portions of said shank upper ends being greater than a length of said cross members, a portion of said wire between said outwardly extending portions of said shanks being bent to engage on and be supported by another structure with said hooks depending downwardly therefrom, said hooks being engagable with said lower cross-member and said shank upper ends being engagable against said rearward vertical portions of said inverted L'"'"'s to interlock said first and second wire loops and crossmembers to said resiliently flexible wire.