Table edge supporting apparatus

• US 7,516,929 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2005
• Issued: 04/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Laurie Cohen
• Original Assignee: Alison Brustein, Laurie Cohen
• Inventors: Cohen, Laurie, Brustein, Alison
• Primary Examiner(s): Sterling; Amy J.
• Application Number:
  US11/076,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20070227991A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,496 Days
• Field of Search: 248/914, 248/322, 248/323, 248/324, 248/327, 248/339, 248/304, 248/308, 704/56.B
• US Class Current: 248/304
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 29/083 Devices for suspending handbags from tables, chairs or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/914 Handbag holder
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/917 Video display screen support

Abstract

A handbag 12 is supported from a table surface 11. A hook 30 extends from the space between parallel panels 13 and 14 and includes a segment 34 rotatable with pivot block 31 between the panels. In one position (FIG. 1), hook 30 is perpendicular to panels 13 and 14 to support the handbag 12. Hook 30 is rotatable in directions 41 (FIG. 5) to a position between, and parallel to, the panels. Hook 30 is coupled to a pivot 35 to rotate with pivot block 31 in a horizontal plane to a storage position. In this position, hook 43 is fixedly positioned relative to magnet 35. To prevent the hook 30 from being dislodged from surface 11, non-skid members are secured to the bottom surface of panel 14.

Claims

1. Apparatus for supporting an accessory from a support structure, including:

a support member having an opening defined by a pair of parallel walls, the support member constructed to be disposed on the support structure,

a pivot block pivotably disposed in the opening of the support member between the pair of parallel walls,

a holder for the accessory formed from segments having a telescoping relationship, the holder having first and second positions and being coupled to the pivot block in the first and second positions, the first position defined by the holder being outside of the opening in the support member and operative in the first position to hold the accessory in a suspended relationship from the support structure, the second position defined by the holder being disposed within the opening in the support member, the holder also being pivotable relative to the pivot block on a first axis and being pivotable with the pivot block on a second axis transverse to the first axis to move the holder between the first and second positions.

2. Apparatus as set forth in claim 1, including

a member in the opening in the support member for retaining the holder in the opening in the support member in the second position of the holder.

5. Apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein

the support member has a bottom having non-skid characteristics.

3. Apparatus for supporting an accessory from a support structure,

a support member having an opening and constructed to be disposed on the support structure,

a pivot block disposed in the opening in the support structure and constructed to be pivoted in the opening in the structure,

an extendible holder formed from extendible segments, the extendible holder also having first and second ends, the first end being disposed in the pivot block for rotation relative to the pivot block on a first axis and pivotable with the pivot block on a second axis transverse to the first axis,

the extendible holder being pivotable between a an extended position providing for a position of the support member downwardly from the support structure and a non-extended storage position providing for a disposition of the holder adjacent the support member;

and

a locking member having magnetic properties disposed on the support member for cooperating with the holder, the holder being magnetizable, for maintaining the holder in the non-extended storage position of the holder.

4. Apparatus as set forth in claim 3 wherein the holder is constructed at the end opposite the pivot block to support the accessory in the first position of the holder.

6. Apparatus as set forth in claim 3 wherein

the support member has a bottom having non-skid characteristics.