Portable device accessory

• US 8,186,642 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2008
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: John Weiss-Vons
• Original Assignee: John Weiss-Vons
• Inventors: Weiss-Vons, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Sterling, Amy J
• Application Number:
  US12/342,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20100155550A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,253 Days
• Field of Search: 248/205.6, 248/363, 248/205.5, 248/205.8, 248/206.4, 248/206.3, 248/206.2, 248/205.9
• US Class Current: 248/683
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/34 electric cords or electric power cables
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/533 Storage compartments for accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/143 at least one end flange being shaped to cover the windings
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 47/00 Suction cups for attaching purposes; Equivalent means using adhesives devices using adhesives, suction or magnetism for hanging or supporting pictures or the like A47G1/17; vacuum work holders B25B11/005; anchoring of ships using suction B63B21/27; suction cups for handling glass B65G49/061; load-engaging elements for cranes using suction means B66C1/02

Abstract

A portable device accessory is used to hold, grip or manipulate a portable device such as and not limited to mobile phones, MP3 players, portable entertainment/computing devices, and/or gaming devices. The accessory possesses two suctions cups connected by a neck and having an aperture for receiving a jack on earphone. Certain embodiments of the accessory will have tabs, ridges, groove and/or a space to receive earphones. The accessory permits a jack of earphones to be threaded through an aperture and the cord of the earphones to be wrapped around the accessory. The suction cups may be inverted to conceal the cord wrapped around a neck of the accessory and tabs may be used to hold inverted suction cups together.

Claims

1. A portable device accessory comprising:

a first suction cup having a concave side and a convex side, said first suction cup having an outer rim, at least one first tab disposed on said outer rim, said first tab having a first end, a second end, an inner side an outer side and a notch being disposed at a junction where said inner side meets the outer rim of said first suction cup, wherein said first tab is elliptically shaped and radiates at an angle from said outer rim, wherein said first tab is parallel with the first suction cup,

a second suction cup having a concave side and a convex side, said second suction cup having an outer rim, at least one matching tab disposed on said outer rim, said at least one matching tab having a first end, a second end, an inner side and an outer side, and a notch being disposed at a junction where said inner side meets the outer rim of said second suction cup, said at least one matching tab being aligned with and inversely oriented with said at least one first tab, wherein said matching tab is elliptically shaped and radiates at an angle from said outer rim, wherein said second tab is parallel with the first suction cup;

a neck connecting said convex side of said first suction cup with said convex side of said second suction cup; and

an aperture disposed through said neck, said aperture having a first open end and a second open end, said aperture being uninterrupted and continuous from said first open end and said second open end,

wherein said notch is dimensioned and configured to releasably receive an earphone cord, said cord being secured in the notch when said cord is received in the notch.

2. The portable device accessory of claim 1, wherein said at said second end of the at least one first tab being thicker than said first end of the at least one first tab, said second end of the at least one matching tab being thicker than said first end of the matching tab, wherein said at least one first tab releasably mates with said at least one matching tab and the outer rim of the first suction cup abuts the outer rim of the second suction cup when each the first suction cup and the second suction cup are inverted, wherein said first tab releasably mates with said matching tab by clasping together the notch of each the first tab and the matching tab.

3. The portable device accessory of claim 2, wherein there are at least two first tabs and at least two matching tabs, said at least two first tabs being aligned with said at least two matching tabs to releaseably mate by clasping.

4. The portable device accessory of claim 1, wherein at least one groove is disposed on said neck, said at least one groove is dimensioned and configured to receive a width of a cord.

5. The portable device accessory of claim 1, wherein a space having an opening is disposed in each said concave side of said first suction cup and said concave side of said second suction cup, said space being dimensioned and configured to receive an ear phone.

6. The portable device accessory of claim 5, wherein said space in said concave side of said first suction cup and said space in said concave side of said second suction cup is disposed in a centermost area of said concave side of said first suction cup and in a centermost area of said concave side of said second suction cup.