US20070090254A1

US20070090254A1 - Pedestal stand system for electronic devices

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Publication number: US20070090254A1
Application number: US11/255,422
Authority: US
Inventors: Paul Del Frari
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2005-10-22
Filing date: 2005-10-22
Publication date: 2007-04-26

Abstract

Demountable components of this electronic device holder configure to adjustably elevate electronic screens and keypads closed to a user's eyes; this being beneficial to viewing posture. Additional vision ergonomic benefits are achieved by a demountable, pliable rod attachment which holds items in the visual field above a device's viewing screen thus enabling users to design properties of the visual field above an image display such as polarization of light, wide angle image magnification, prism shifting of imagery, filtration of color, and a means of relief from the damaging effects of reflectance and glare on electronic screens. This holder being easy to use in many applications, locations, and positions.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

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STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH/DEVELOPMENT

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to a means of holding for electronic devices including but not limited to cellular phones, CD players, MP3 players, calculators, GPS receivers, and similar devices. It demountable components are applicable on any planar surface.
Prior art informs practitioners on three primary objectives in improving the means of holding electronic devices: to increase functionality of digital devices, to improve the ergonomics of using electronic devices, and to increase usage by improving the ruggedness of digital devices. U.S. Pat. 6,302,037 to Del Frari on Oct. 16, 2001 discloses a table device employing diverse forms of demountable pliable, weight bearing rods as holding tools. This prior art contributes to the present disclosure by Del Frari.
Features common in prior art to improve ruggedness and hand control of electronic devices are straps and carrying cases that support a device on a flat surface.
US Pat. application No. 20020099894 to Kehoe et al. published Jul. 25, 2002 teaches improvements in the functionality and ergonomics of hand held personal digital assistant devices by improving their stability and access to hand grasp when the device is resting on flat surfaces. These improvements being the modification of the forward edge of a PDA to form a resting stand with additional lateral extension supports to said stand and a wrist strap for the user.
US application No. 20030021084 to Cho et al. published on Jan. 30, 2003 also teaches on the use of a stand structure to hold a digital device, in this case a wireless LAN adapter. The disclosed stand improves functionality by allowing for rotational movements of the adapter for improved signal transmission within a computer network.
US application No. 20050086410 to Landron et al. published on Apr. 21, 2005 discloses an adapter unit that “adds functionality and ruggedness to a commercially designed device for use in a more industrial environment” by designing a housing for the digital device, PDA, which can be detachably secured to said hand held computer. The device being useable inside of or removed from the housing.
US application No. 20030116631 to Salvato et al. published on Jun. 26, 2003 discloses an adapter unit for a personal digital assistant having an ergonomic grip. Here the adapter unit structure forms a ridge and gripping angle combination to improve hand control by helping prevent a user's fingers from slipping off the gripping surface.
US application No. 20040256432 to Orenstein published on Dec. 12, 2004 discloses an electronic device holder that teaches use of ergonomics, increased utility and increased ruggedness of a broadly applicable closed loop design; this design embodied in a body worn holder as a means of capturing the electronic device in a manner that does not suffer the limitations of holders customized to fit the individual products they serve.
US application No. 20050072691 to Schlansky published on Apr. 7, 2005 echoes several common prior art issues in advancing the objectives of functionality, ruggedness, and ergonomics: that a holder of electronic devices should maintain a position of easy accessibility, usability of the device when captured by the holder and when being used independent of it, useable with a range of sizes and designs of electronic products, and the need to be usable in the many locations and situations that communication devices are used in. Schlansky discloses a pair of opposed arms capable of adjustable pressure against an object. The arms forming a partial loop around a central support area a device to be held is set upon. US application No. 20020159775 to Muller published on Oct. 31, 2002 makes a disclosure on a vital usage issue for all hand held electronic devices, the effects of ambient lighting conditions on the visual display of an LCD screen. Muller's disclosure is of a focusing hood for digital cameras to shield a digital camera LCD screen from glare effects. Prior art recommends that a means for holding electronic devices be inclusive of accessibility of the held device in a plurality of locations and on a plurality of surfaces. Additionally prior art informs practitioners that a holder needs to be accommodative to variance in size and shape of electronic devices and to the movements their designs require for their usage. Additionally prior art informs that electronic device holders need to consider the ergonomics of of hand movements and weight bearing involved in usage applications of these devices.
No identified prior art teaches the incorporation of vision ergonomics in the design of a holder for electronic devices. Important trends in the development of wireless electronic devices that contribute to the challenge of broad user accessibility to these devices is their increasing use of visual data, including photographs, concurrent with their increasing compactness of size. The relationship between vision and posture needs to be recognized in the design of a holder for electronic devices which increasingly emphasize use of visual data.
The seeming effortless of vision is deceptive, and how we need to look in order to see data displayed on LCD screens effects our eye movements—our ability to find and recognize data—and sensory motor fatigue, overload. LCD screens are strongly impacted by ambient lighting conditions. Control of glare and image reducing reflectance is a consideration of both accessibility and functionality.
Visual data is vital to information transfer, vital to the range of tasks communication devices can perform and the people they may serve such as providing caregivers and their charges access to a shared means of personalized assistance—photos—that can be given electronically, with immediacy and from far away.
My invention advances prior art by incorporating increased utility, increased accessibility, and increased ruggedness into a holding system for electronic devices that includes vision ergonomics: that does not expect or require device users to spontaneously find solutions to ambient lighting problems, that does not preclude individuals of diminished sensory abilities from using these powerful communication tools, that does not limit usage of electronic devices to how long an individual can tolerate the postural demands their use may make of them.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Construction of a demountable component pedestal stand holder for electronic devices begins with a sheet of rigid material. One side of said sheet is completely surfaced with slip resistant, resiliently deformable material; this forming a bottom side of said sheet. Opposed to this surfaced bottom is a top side to which several parts are permanently affixed: a square rod having one its ends perpendicularly attached to said sheet, a pair of parallel and opposed congruent blocks which are lateral to said perpendicular rod and flanking opposed sides of said perpendicular rod. A horizontal square rod connects perpendicularly to the mid-section area of the top side of said opposed congruent blocks where it is permanently fastened. Said perpendicular square rod has a plurality of modular recesses on the side face which is oriented between said congruent blocks flanking its opposed sides. Said horizontal square rod having a plurality of modular recesses on its top side face.
A plurality of demountable blocks each having a plurality of studs at one end side and a plurality of modular recesses on the opposed end side. Said studs of each of said demountable blocks mate correspondingly with said modular recesses of other of said demountable blocks. Said mating of said studs to said recesses connecting one demountable block to another. Said studs of said demountable blocks also mating correspondingly with said modular recesses of said perpendicular rod and said horizontal rod. Singly, or in multiples, said demountable blocks correspondingly mated with said modular recesses of said horizontal rod present a modular recessed planar surface of variable height from said bottom surface of said rigid sheet. Said demountable blocks mated correspondingly to said modular recesses of said perpendicular rod houses said demountable blocks in the interior space formed by said perpendicular rod, said horizontal rod, and said congruent blocks.
The pedestal component is a demountable inclined faced block, said face being the edge side of said block between two unequal angle corners. Said inclined block's unequal corners being opposed by a pair of perpendicular angle corners. At mid-section of edge side between said perpendicular corners is a plurality of studs, said studs mating correspondingly with said modular recesses of said horizontal rod and said demountable blocks. Said inclined block has a plurality of rigid sheets fastened perpendicularly to said inclined surface, in proximity to said unequal angle corners. A rigid rectangular sheet is fastened to the elevated end of said inclined block. Said rigid sheet elongates said elevated end side above the height of said inclined surface. Said elongated sheet having a circular hole cut-through in said area above said inclined surface. Said elongated end being a rear side of said inclined block and said shorter end of said block being a front, a preferred view side of said pedestal component.
Said pedestal component receives a demountable rigid sheet support for electronic devices. Said rigid sheet support having a side surface adapted to engage support surfaces by having said slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials adhered to the perimeter areas of said surface, said perimeter surfacing defining a bottom side of said demountable sheet. Fastened along the longitudinal midline of the interior area of said bottom surface is hook and loop material. Opposed to said bottom side is a top side, said top side also being surfaced with said slip resistant resiliently deformable materials. Curved contour notches are transversely opposed at said rigid sheet's sides. Lateral to said notches are a rectangular cut-through of said demountable sheet and a top side surface area of hook and loop material. Said top and bottom sides'surfacing of said demountable sheet is not applied to the transverse axis between said notches. Said top surface hook and loop material being level with said top side slip resistant materials. Said rectangular cut-through mating correspondingly to said elongated sheet end of said inclined block.
An elastic cord encircles said demountable rigid sheet support at said notches. Said cord having a cord stop allowing for said cord to exert variable pressure against said sheet. Said cord being an adjustable pressure means of tethering an electronic device to said demountable rigid support. Said rigid support being attachable to said inclined block. Said hook and loop material of said demountble support may be corresponded with hook and loop material positioned on an electronic device when a user desires a held device to be in a specific position such as an individual wanting a cellular phone precisely held for their ease of hearing and speaking.
Said stacking of said demountable blocks is a low cost, east to manufacture, easy to apply means of achieving size magnification by moving the viewing screen and button configuration of an electronic device closer to the observer's eyes, size variance of said blocks allowing for customization of the viewing distance between said screen and an observer with the benefits to viewing posture this yields.
Utility and functionality are increased by addition of a rectangular block magnet holder for said demountable rigid sheet support. Said magnet having a plurality of countersunk holes along its longitudinal axis. Said holes being covered by hook and loop material. Said covering defining a top side of said magnet with opposed uncovered side attaching to metallic surfaces. Application of fasteners through said countersunk holes secures said rectangular block to non-metallic surfaces. Covering of said countersunk fasteners with said hook and loop material providing a connecting surface for said bottom side longitudinal hook and loop surfacing of said demountable rigid support to attach to. Said magnetic block being of lessor dimensions than said demountable rigid support; this enabling ease of hand grasp of said bottom side of said demountable rigid support when attaching to and releasing from said magnetic block holder. This allows an electronic device to be held on vertical surfaces. A larger block magnet being employed for larger electronic devices. Said magnetic blocks may be electromagnetic.
Utility and functionality of said magnetic block holder are increased by employment of a demountable bracket attachment for said magnetic block holder. Said bracket being a block having an inclined side edge between two unequal angle corners. Said unequal corners being opposed by a pair of perpendicular angle corners. A rectangular rigid sheet fastened to the shorter end of said bracket attachment elongates said shorter end below the side between said perpendicular corners. Both said shorter end and its opposed longer end of said bracket attachment are surfaced with hook and loop material. Either of said hook and loop surfaced ends being attachable to said magnetic block holder. Attachment of varied ends of said bracket to said holder presents a held device at a different inclines to a user; this being of advantage for the device user by allowing for greater freedom in a user's viewing position lateral of the held device. Said inclined side surface of said bracket being surfaced in mid-area with hook and loop material and recessed at its distal ends. Said mid-area surfacing corresponds with said bottom side hook and loop area of said demountable rigid support. Said corresponding areas of said hook and loop material allowing for said rigid demountable support to attach to and release from said bracket.
A weight bearing, pliable rod employing the prior of U.S. Pat. No. 6,302,037 to Del Frari on Oct. 16, 2001 connecting to and releasing from said demountable inclined block One of said pliable rod's ends being connectable to said circular cut-through of said elongated rigid sheet end of said demountable inclined block. Said connectable rod end being the embedding of one of said pliable rod's ends into a rigid square block. Said square block having a transverse cut-through in its mid-section area and a shaft cut-through perpendicular to and intersecting the space of said transverse cut-through. Said transverse cut-through mating correspondingly to said rigid sheet elongation of said inclined block so that said cut-through hole of said elongated sheet aligns with said shaft of said square block. A pin with locking mechanism inserted through said circular cut-through and said shaft connects said square block end of said pliable rod to said inclined block. The opposed end of said pliable rod being a largely rectangular block and having a plurality of aligned apertures. Said rectangular end having a shaft passing perpendicularly through said apertures. Said apertures'openings being of variable widths. Said variance of said aperture openings being accommodative to sheet materials of variable thicknesses. Said sheet materials including but not being limited to light polarizing filters, polyester color filters for image enhancements, rigid sheets with prisms attached thereto, 3-D filters, wide angle magnification, image magnifying sheets. Said sheets possessing a cut-through to accommodate aligning their position when inserted into said apertures with said shaft of said rectangular block. Said alignment of said sheets allowing for a pin lock mechanism to pass through said shaft thereby passing through said sheets and said apertures. Said pin lock mechanism being an easy means of attaching and releasing said sheet materials from said rectangular end of said rod. Additional embodiments of means for holding said sheet materials may be a mechanism for applying spring tension against said sheets when said sheets are inserted into said apertures. Said alignment of multiple sheets within said apertures also being a means for holding additive properties of said sheet materials in alignment with one another. One practiced in this art will recognize this to be a means of designing the physical properties of the visual field above an electronic display screen. Said properties including but not being limited to adjustable depth of field, use of wide angle lens magnification, polarization of the image light coming from the screen and from the ambient environment surrounding the screen, filtering of color and wavelength of the light in the visual field, prism shifting of images located withing the field, sheet lens magnification of imagery within the field.
Functionality and utility are increased by a means of connecting and releasing said pliable rod from said demountable rigid sheet support. Said means being an assembly of two perpendicularly intersecting rectangles. One of which has a circle cut-through. Said cut-through rectangle is pushed upwards and through said rectangular cut-through of said demountable rigid sheet support till stopped by said horizontal rectangle coming to rest adjacent to said bottom side of said demountable rigid support. In said position said vertical end of said assembly may receive the transverse cut-though of said square block end by said block end moving down onto said vertically extended rectangle. Said vertical rectangle corresponding in dimensions to said transverse cut-through of said square block end; this correspondence aligning said circular cut-through of said extending rectangle with said shaft of said square end; there connecting said block end to said assembly by pin. One practiced in this art will consider that the addition of said pliable rod may be made directly to an electronic device in its manufacture. In one embodiment a device may provide a compartment in which a pliable rod may be coiled within, said compartment being a substitution for said square block end of said adjustable rod. Said means of designing the physical properties of the visual field above an electronic screen therefore being available directly to said device by means of adding said sheet matter above said electronic display screen.
A hollow opaque cylinder having opposed opened ends intersects with a rectangular rigid sheet with a circular cut-out fit to said cylinder's diameter. Said cylinder sliding into said circular up-out and said cylinder being adhesively attached to said rigid sheet with said attached cylinder end and said rigid sheet being level with one another. Said attached end opening being reduced in size by attachment of a molded circular base silicone rubber eyepiece to said rigid sheet so as to cover said opening. Said molded silicone eyepiece having a centered circular opening aligned with the central axis of said cylinder and said opening being of lessor diameter than said cylinder. Said cylinder's walls being of laminated construction. Said laminations yielding variable cylinder wall thicknesses. Said laminations can be of a diameter to be adjacent to circular objects. Addition of subsequent layers of said interior laminations reducing said cylinder's interior diameter above and below said objects thereby fastening said objects within said cylinder. A plurality of objects such as lenses may be fastened inside of said cylinder by said means. Said lenses having cumulative effects therefore said cylinder may be designed in accordance with a prescription of one or a plurality of lenses. Said cylinder's length may be customized to the properties of inserted materials such as an inserted lens's focal length as when said cylinder's length from said held lens to said cylinder's open end is the focal length of said lens. Said rectangular sheet extending from its encirclement of said cylinder to said rectangular block end. Said opaque cylinder being a light shield for viewing electronic screens in all forms of adverse lighting conditions.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1: side perspective view of pedestal holder with cellular phone
FIG. 2: front perspective view
FIG. 3: rear perspective view
FIG. 4: demountable rigid sheet support(14) removed from pedestal stand
FIG. 5: top view of pedestal showing modular recesses (8) of horizontal rod (9)
FIG. 6: side perspective view of demountable inclined block (10) showing rigid sheets oriented perpendicularly to (10), rigid sheet elongation (12) of long end of (10) with hole (13) in rigid sheet elongation in area above (10), and studs (7) extending downward from mid-section area of(10)
FIG. 6 a: sectional view of mid-section area of (10) showing studs (7)
FIG. 7: top view of studs of demountable blocks (6) being withdrawn from their insertion in modular recesses of perpendicular square rod (3)
FIG. 8: studs (7) of the bottom member of a plurality of demontable blocks (6) being inserted into modular recesses (8) of horizontal square rod (9)
FIG. 9: studs (7) of demountable blocks (6) mating correspondingly with modular recesses (8) of other demountable blocks (6)
FIG. 10: thumb and finger pressure on cord stop (18) to release pressure from elastic cord (16) to free cellular phone from being held on demountable rigid sheet (14)
FIG. 11: top side view of demountable rigid support (14), slip resistant resiliently deformable materials on top side (1), elastic cord (16) at transversely opposed notches (17) of rigid demountable support (14), area of hook and loop material (20), rectangular cut-through of rigid sheet (15)
FIG. 12: view of bottom side of demountable rigid sheet (14), slip resistant resiliently deformable materials (1) at perimeter areas, hook and loop materials (20) along longitudinal axis of interior area of sheet, rectangular cut-through of rigid sheet (15)
FIG. 13: rectangular magnetic block (21) having hook and loop surfacing (20), being set on a rigid surface (23), opposed to hook and loop section of bottom side of demountable rigid support (14)
FIG. 14: section view of a refrigerator door(23) showing rectangular magnetic block (21) set on door
FIG. 15: side sectional view of rectangular magnetic block (21) as shown on refrigerator of FIG. 14, magnetic block's countersunk holes along its longitudinal axis (22) not being used in this application, face of block magnet being surfaced with hook and loop material (20), said magnet's surfaced face shown opposed to bottom side of rigid demountable support (14) which correspondingly presents hook and loop material so that rigid support may attach to and be released from magnetic block
FIG. 16: rectangular magnetic block (21) attached to side of a washing machine, a demountable bracket attachment (24) attaching to magnetic block
FIG. 17: detailed view of demountable bracket attachment (24) showing areas of hook and loop materials on its surfaces (20), rigid sheet elongation of short side of bracket attachment (25), and recessed ends of inclined side of bracket attachment (26)
FIG. 18: rear view of pedestal stand showing hole (13) in rigid elongation (12) of long side of demountable inclined block (10)
FIG. 19: side view of demountable inclined block (10) rotated 90 degrees from its position in FIG. 18, rigid elongation (12) of long end of (10) appears above rectangular cut-through (15) of demountable rigid support (14)
FIG. 20: side view of weight bearing, pliable rod—Prior Art—(27) inside of decorative plastic conduit (28), square block end (29) of rod (27) and rectangular block end (32) of same, also shown are transverse rectangular cut-through of square block end (30), and shaft cut-through (31) being perpendicular to transverse cut-through;
rectangular block end (32) showing aligned apertures (33) being perpendicularly intersected by shaft cut-through (34) perpendicular to aligned apertures, pin (35) with locking mechanism inserted into shaft (34) intersecting with apertures (33)
FIG. 21: rigid sheet materials of variable thicknesses (36) with circular cut-throughs for attachment to aligned apertures (33) of rectangular block end (32)
FIG. 22: rigid sheet material (36) with circular cut-through for attachment to aligned apertures (33) of rectangular block end (32); rigid sheet surrounding and being attached to opaque cylinder (37), rigid sheet and opaque cylinder being level on top side, skin-safe silicone rubbers molded into eye piece (40) covering and adhered to rigid sheet and covering top opening of opaque cylinder (37), circular cut-out of eyepiece being aligned with central vertical axis of cylinder, cylinder walls being constructed of interior laminations (38) attached to outer cylinder wall, a lens (40) embedded between interior laminations (38) of cylinder (37)
FIG. 23: side view of pliable rod (27) showing sheet materials inserted into aligned apertures (33) of rectangular end block (32) with pin (35) in shaft (34) interconnecting sheets to block end ; square block end (29) shown in alignment with attachment piece (41) for connecting demountable rigid sheet (14) with adjustable position weight bearing rod (27); connection being made with attaching piece (41) passing up through rectangular cut-through (15) of demountable rigid sheet (14) and into transverse cut-though (30) of square block end, circular cut-through of (41) there aligning with shaft cut-through (31) of square block end (29), connection made by pin with locking mechanism (35)
FIG. 23 a: side detail showing embedding of pliable rod (27) into square block end (29) showing through shaft of same (31), same embedding done at rectangular block end, shaft cut-through not shown in this view of rectangular block end
FIG. 24: demountable rigid sheet support (14) used independently to provide ergonomic hand grasp for a compact size cellular phone
FIG. 25: one handed grasp of lightweight pedestal stand, fingers grasping finger contoured cut-outs (5) which are surfaced with slip resistant resiliently deformable materials
FIG. 26: view of demountable rigid support (14) with pliable rod (27) attaching to a plurality of rigid sheets above the display screen of an electronic device
FIG. 27: view of demountable rigid support (14) with pliable rod (27) attaching to rigid sheet with opaque cylinder (37), opaque cylinder functioning as a visor and blocking ambient lighting from interfering with device user's view of its screen

REFERENCE NUMERALS TO DRAWINGS

1. slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials
2. rigid sheet
3. a perpendicularly oriented square rod
4. congruent blocks
5. finger contoured cut-outs surfaced with slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials
6. demountable blocks
7. studs
8. modular recesses
9. horizontally oriented square rod
10. demountable inclined block
11. rigid sheets oriented perpendicularly to inclined side of inclined block (10)
12. rigid sheet elongation of long end of (10)
13. cut-through hole in rigid sheet elongation (12) in area of sheet above said inclined block (10)
14. demountable rigid support comprised of rigid sheet (2) with top and bottom side surfacing of (1)
15. rectangular cut-through in demountable rigid support
16. elastic cord
17. transversely opposed notches in demountable rigid support (14)
18. cord stop attached to elastic cord (16)
19. decorative cord ending
20. hook and loop materials
21. rectangular magnetic block
22. countersunk holes on longitudinal axis of magnetic block (21)
23. rigid surface, metallic or non-metallic
24. demountable bracket attachment
25. rigid sheet elongation of short side of bracket attachment (24)
26. recessed ends of inclined side of bracket attachment (24)
27. Prior Art, U.S. Pat. 6,302,037 to Del Frari on Oct. 16, 2001, weight bearing, pliable rod
28. plastic conduit, decorative covering to pliable rod (27)
29. square block end of pliable rod (27)
30. transverse rectangular cut-through of square block end (29)
31. shaft cut-through perpendicular to transverse rectangular cut-out (30)
32. rectangular block end of pliable rod (27)
33. vertically aligned apertures, of variable widths, of rectangular block end (32)
34. shaft cut-through perpendicular to aligned apertures (33) of rectangular block (32)
35. pin with button release ball lock mechanism
36. rigid sheet materials of variable thicknesses with circular cut-through for attachment to aligned apertures (33) of rectangular block end (32)
37. opaque cylinder
38. interior laminations in construction of cylinder (37)
39. lens embedded between interior laminations (38) of cylinder (37)
40. skin-safe silicone rubbers molded into eye piece covering, adhered to rigid sheet opaque cylinder (37) is embedded in
41. attachment piece for connecting demountable rigid support (14) with pliable rod (27); connection being made with cut-out hole of attaching piece (41) aligning with shaft cut-through (31) of square block end (29), at transverse cut-out (30), connection made by pin (35)

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The components of the pedestal stand of his holding device are easily observed in FIG. 1 showing it holding a cellular phone with the phone's cover lid opened. Said stand's assembly begins with a rigid sheet (2 in FIG. 1) to which an end of a square rod is permanently attached perpendicular to said sheet (3 in FIG. 1). One side of said rigid sheet is completely surfaced with slip resistant, resiliently deformable material (1 in FIG. 1); this forming a bottom side of said sheet. A pair of parallel and opposed congruent blocks (4 in FIG. 1) are lateral to said perpendicular rod and flank opposed sides of said perpendicular rod. A horizontal square rod (9 in FIG. 1) connects perpendicularly to the mid-section area of the top side of said opposed congruent blocks where it is permanently fastened. Said perpendicular square rod has a plurality of modular recesses on the side face which is oriented between said congruent blocks flanking its opposed sides. Demountable blocks (6 in FIG. 1) connect by studs (7 in FIG. 1) to said modular recesses in said perpendicular square block (3 in FIG. 1). A demountable inclined edge block (10 in FIG. 1) connects with said horizontal square rod (9 in FIG. 1). Said inclined block having a rigid sheet elongate its long end (12 in FIG. 1) with said elongation extending upwards through a rectangular cut-through of a demountable rigid sheet support (14 in FIGS. 1 and 2) into the space above said support. Said inclined block having an inclined edge side between two unequal angles. Rigid sheets (11 in FIG. 1) attach perpendicularly to said incline of (10) in proximity with said unequal angle corners of same. Finger contoured cut-outs (5 in FIGS. 1 and 2) at opposed ends of each of said congruent blocks (4 in FIGS. 1 and 2) are surfaced with said slip resistant material to enable easy grasp of this lightweight stand. An electronic device is firmly held against said slip resistant surface of said demountable rigid support by an elastic cord (16 in FIGS. 1 and 2). Said cord positions at transversely opposed notches (17 in FIG. 2) of said demountable rigid support (14 in FIGS. 1 and 2) and when tightly drawn against an electronic device by means of cord stop (18 in FIG. 2) holds said device firmly on said slip resistant surfacing of (14).
FIG. 4 illustrates said demountable rigid support (14) being released from said demountable inclined block (!0 in FIG. 4). FIGS. 6, and 6a illustrate location at mid-section area of said demountable inclined block (10) of a plurality of studs (7 in FIGS. 6 and 6 a). Said studs mating correspondingly with said modular recesses (8) of said horizontal square bar (9 in FIG. 5). Said interconnecting being the means of attaching said demountable inclined block (10) to said horizontal square rod (9).
FIG. 7 demonstrates hand removal of said demountable blocks (6 in FIG. 7) from modular recesses of said perpendicular square rod (3 in FIG. 8).
FIG. 8 shows a plurality of demountable blocks mating correspondingly with said modular recesses of said horizontal square rod. FIG. 9 shows studs (7) at bottom end of one of said blocks mating correspondingly with modular recesses of opposed top end of another of said demountable blocks (6).
FIG. 10 shows a user's thumb and pointer finger releasing cord stop lock (18) on cord (16) so that a cellular phone may be released from demountable rigid support (14). FIG. 11 illustrates the top side surface of said demountable rigid support and identifies (15), the rectangular cut-through that allows for (12), the elongated end of demountable inclined block (10) to pass through said demountable rigid support. When said elongated end rests above said rigid support said rigid support is stationed on said inclined edge of said demountable inclinded block. Further support of said demountable rigid support comes laterally from said rigid sheets (11 in FIGS. 1 and 6) which perpendicularly intersect and attach to said inclined block (10). Numeral (20) identifies an area of hook and loop material on said top side of said demountable rigid support. Said area being an optional, additional, support if a user wants to maintain a device in a specific location for long periods of time such as a cellular phone for personal comfort with said device, the device having the complementary hook and loop material on it.
FIG. 12 is the bottom or rear side of said demountable rigid support (14). It's surface has more limited coverage by said slip resistant materials (1) than said top side of (14); said surfacing being of the perimeter area of said demountable rigid support. Longitudinally at midline said rear side has hook and loop material (20). Opposed hook and loop material surfaces (20 in FIG. 13) illustrate the back side of said demountable rigid support (14 in FIG. 12) in corresponding position to attach said bottom side longitudinal hook and loop material with that of a rectangular magnetic block (21 in FIG. 13).
FIGS. 14 and 15 combine to show said rectangular magnetic block (21) attached to the metallic rigid surface of a refrigerator. A side view of (21) shows longitudinally aligned countersunk holes of said magnetic block (22 in FIG. 15); said countersunk holes being surfaced with hook and loop material (20). Said hook and loop face of said magnetic block shown opposed to bottom side of said demountable rigid support (14) so that said magnetic block and said demountable rigid support are correspondingly positioned to interconnect with one another, similar to the illustration of FIG. 13.
FIGS. 16 and 17 present a demountable bracket attachment (24) to said magnetic block (21). FIG. 16 showing said magnetic block attached to the side of a washing machine with bracket attachment (24) connected, thereby being a pedestal support for demountable rigid support (14) with attached cellular phone. FIG. 17 separates hook and loop faced magnetic block (21) and from said demountable bracket attachment (24) and marks detailed features of said bracket attachment: (20) areas of hook and loop material surfacing, (25) rigid sheet elongation of short side of said bracket attachment, (26) recessed areas of said inclined edge of said bracket attachment. Hook and loop surfacing of said elongation of said short side (25) enables a user to correspond hook and loop materials of either said short side or the long side of said bracket attachment to said hook and loop surfacing of said demountable magnetic block. Said reversal in corresponding sides of hook and loop materials (20) enabling a user to position said bracket attachment so that an electronic device's screen is oriented to face them as they laterally shift positions when working at a task.
FIG. 18 is a rear view of said pedestal stand showing said hole (13) in said rigid elongation (12) of said long side of said demountable inclined block. FIG. 18 is complemented by FIG. 19, a side view of said demountable inclined block (10) rotated 90 degrees from its position in FIG. 18 to show a side view of said rigid elongation (12) of long end of (10). Said elongation is shown as being through said rectangular cut-through of said demountable rigid support so that said hole (13) of said elongation is opened for a pin with locking mechanism (35) to pass through and lock said demountable rigid support onto said demountable inclined block.
FIG. 20 shows said prior art, a pliable rod embedded in a square block end (29); FIG. 23 a shows a detail view of said embedded rod end. Said square block end (29) features said transverse cut-through (30) which mates correspondingly with said elongation (12) of said long end of said demountable inclined block (10). Said correspondence produced by moving said transverse cut-through of said square block end down onto said elongation (12). Said correspondence aligning said shaft (31) of said square block end with said hole (13) of said elongation (12) so that said pin (35) may pass though said hole and said shaft thereby locking said connection of said square block end to said elongation (12).
FIG. 20 also shows said rectangular block end (32) of said rod (27). 33 in FIG. 20 shows aligned apertures of variable widths being perpendicularly intersected by said shaft cut-through (34) with said pin (35) inserted through said shaft (34) intersecting with said apertures (33).
FIGS. 23 and 23a continue to explain how said square block end (29) of said pliable rod (27) connects with system components; here, with attachment piece (41) for connecting said rod to said demountable rigid support (14). Said connection being made by inserting of said attachment piece (41) upwards from said bottom side of said demountable support (14) via said rectangular cut-through (15). Said attachment piece mating correspondingly with said transverse cut-through of said block end (30). Said attachment's upwards movement ceases when said horizontal rectangle part of said attachment piece (41) is adjacent to said bottom side of said demountable rigid support, and said vertical rectangle of said attachment piece is fully extended above said top side surface of said demountable rigid support. Downward pressure on said square block end brings hole of said attachment piece into alignment with said shaft of said square block end (31); said connection then being made by said pin.
26 of FIG. 17 identifies recesses flanking an elevated section of hook and loop material on the inclined side of said demountable bracket attachment (24). Said recesses (26) function is to provide space for said horizontal rectangle part of(41) when said demountable rigid support (14) is used independent of said pedestal stand and said support (14) has said pliable rod (27) attached to it.
FIG. 21 illustrates said circular cut-through (36) of said sheet materials applied in designing the properties of the visual field above an electronic display screen.
FIG. 22 illustrates attachment of a rigid sheet of said variable sheet materials to a hollow, open ended opaque cylinder (37). Said attachment being achieved by said rigid sheet having a cut-out fit to the outside diameter of said cylinder. Said cylinder being passable through said cut-out and being attached by adhesives to said rigid sheet. When said cylinder is attached to said rigid sheet said cylinder's top side opening is level with the plane of said rigid sheet. Said top side's opening is made partial by attachment of a molded skin-safe silicone eye piece (40) to said rigid sheet's planar surface so as to partially cover said cylinder's opening. Said eyepiece having a centered circular cut-through. Said cut-through aligning with the central vertical axis of said cylinder and said cut-out being of lessor diameter than said cylinder. Said cylinder being constructed from interior laminations (38) attached to a cylinder shell. Said interior laminations extend inwards from said cylinder shell wall, contracting the inside diameter of said cylinder. A lens may be trapped—locked in place—by interior laminations above and below said lens (39). Said laminations narrowing said cylinder's inside diameter to a lessor measure than the diameter of said lens. Multiple objects may be held in alignment by this method. Insertion of the rigid sheet said opaque cylinder is embedded in into one of said rectangular block end's (32) apertures (33) attaches said cylinder to said pliable rod. Attached to said rod said cylinder may be selective positioned on an electronic device's screen thereby shielding the screen from ambient light and giving its user a protected view of said screen via said eyepiece (40).
FIG. 24 is of a person using said demountable rigid support (14) independently, to hold a cellular phone. Said support's surfacing of slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials make it comfortable to firmly grasp. Said support allows for an electronic device like the cell phone in the drawing to be held in a manner comfortable to the user and in a manner that does not interfere with function buttons on the device; inadvertent contact with function buttons being a determent to using compact digital devices.
FIG. 25 shows hand grasp of finger contoured grips on said congruent blocks of said pedestal stand. Said stand is shown deploying a plurality of said demountable blocks (6) with said demountable inclined block in place atop said demountable blocks (6) and supporting the electronic device. Said pedestal stand is compact, light weight, and easy to handle.
FIG. 26 displays said pliable rod attached to said demountable rigid support for said support to be used independently. Several sheets are aligned by said apertures of said rectangular block end of said rod. Said sheets'are additive when aligned with one another. Said pliable arm positions said sheets anywhere above said electronic display screen thereby designing physical properties of visual field above the screen.
The final illustration, FIG. 27, is of said hollow, opaque cylinder attached by rigid sheet to said pliable rod. Said eyepiece (40) provides a view of said electronic device's display screen aligned with the center axis of said cylinder and shielded from ambient light effects.

Claims

1. a rigid sheet having a surface adapted to engage support surfaces, said adaptation being the attachment of slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials to said surface, said surfacing defining a bottom side, opposed to said bottom side is a top side surface;

a square rod perpendicularly fastened to said top side surface, said rod having

a plurality of modular recesses on one its side faces;

a pair of parallel and opposed congruent blocks which are lateral to said perpendicular rod and flanking opposed sides of said perpendicular rod., each of said congruent blocks having finger contoured cut-outs at mid-sections of opposed end sides, each of said cut-outs being surfaced with said slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials;

a square rod horizontally attached to the top side of each of said blocks, said horizontal rod being perpendicular to each of said blocks, said horizontal rod having a plurality of modular recesses on its top side surface;

a plurality of congruent demountable blocks, each of said demountable blocks having a plurality of studs at one end side and a plurality of modular recesses on the opposed end side, said studs of each of said demountable blocks mating correspondingly with said modular recesses of other of said demountable blocks, said mating of said studs to said recesses connecting one demountable block to another, said studs of said demountable blocks also mating correspondingly with said modular recesses of said perpendicular rod and said horizontal rod, singly or in a plurality said demountable blocks when correspondingly mated with said modular recesses of said horizontal rod present a modular recessed planar surface of variable height from said bottom surface of said rigid sheet, said demountable blocks mated correspondingly to said modular recesses of said perpendicular rod houses said demountable blocks in the interior space formed by said perpendicular rod, said horizontal rod, and said congruent blocks; a demountable inclined faced block, said inclined face being the edge side of said block between two unequal angle corners, said unequal corners being opposed by a pair of perpendicular angle corners, at mid-section of edge side between said perpendicular corners is a plurality of studs, said studs mating correspondingly with said modular recesses of said horizontal rod and said demountable blocks, said inclined surface having a plurality of rigid sheets fastened perperdicularlly to said inclined surface in proximity to said unequal angle corners, a rigid rectangular sheet fastened to the elevated end of said inclined block elongates said elevated end side above said inclined surface, said elongated sheet having a circular hole cut-through in said area above said inclined surface, said elongated end being a rear side of said inclined block and said shorter side being a front view side of said block;

a demountable rigid support for electronic devices having a side surface adapted to engage support surfaces, said adaptation being the attachment of said slip resistant, resiliently deformable materials to the perimeter areas of said surface, said perimeter surfacing defining a bottom side of said demountable rigid support, fastened along the longitudinal midline of the interior area of said bottom surface is hook and loop material, opposed to said bottom side is a topside, said top side being surfaced with said slip resistant resiliently deformable materials, said demountable rigid support having curved contour notches transversely opposed at its mid-section area, lateral to said notches are a rectangular cut-through of said demountable rigid support and a top side surface area of hook and loop material, said surfacing of said top side and said bottom side of said demountable rigid support is not applied to the transverse axis between said notches, said top surface hook and loop material being of same surface level as said slip resistant materials, said rectangular cut-through mating correspondingly to said elongated rigid sheet of said inclined block, a pin with locking mechanism passing through said circular cut-through of said elongated rigid sheet secures said demountable rigid support to said elongated rigid sheet of said demountable inclined block;

an elastic cord encircling said demountable rigid support at said notches, said cord having a cord stop allowing for said cord to exert variable pressure against said rigid support, said cord being an adjustable pressure means of tethering an electronic device to said demountable rigid support, said rigid support being attached to said inclined block, said hook and loop material of said top side of said demountble rigid support being used in combination with hook and loop material positioned on an electronic device when a user desires a held device to be in a specific position such as an individual wanting a cellular phone to be precisely held for their ease of hearing and speaking;

one practiced in this art will recognize said stacking of said demountable blocks as being a low cost, east to manufacture, easy to apply means of achieving size magnification by moving the viewing screen and button configuration of an electronic device closer to the observer's eyes, size variance of said blocks allowing for customization of the viewing distance between said screen and an observer with the benefits to viewing posture this yields.

2. A rectangular block magnet holder for said demountable rigid support of claim (1), said magnet having a plurality of countersunk holes along its longitudinal axis, said holes being surfaced by hook and loop material, said surfacing defining a top side of said magnet, said unsurfaced side attaching to metallic surfaces, application of fasteners through said countersunk holes secures said rectangular block to non-metallic surfaces, covering of said countersunk fasteners with said hook and loop material providing a connecting surface for said bottom side longitudinal hook and loop surfacing of said demountable rigid support to attach to, said magnetic block being of lessor dimensions than said demountable rigid support enabling ease of hand grasp of said bottom side of said rigid support, said magnetic block being a means of holding electronic devices on a vertical surface, larger versions of said magnetic block being applied to larger electronic devices, said magnetic blocks may be electromagnets.

3. A demountable bracket attachment for said holder of claim (2), said bracket being a block having an inclined side edge between two unequal angle corners, said unequal corners being opposed by a pair of perpendicular angle corners, a rectangular rigid sheet fastened to the shorter end of said bracket attachment elongates said shorter end below the side between said perpendicular corners, both said shorter end and its opposed longer end of said bracket attachment being surfaced with hook and loop material, either of said hook and loop surfaced ends being attachable to said magnetic block holder, said attachment of varied ends of said bracket attachment to said magnetic block presents a held device at different inclines to a user; this being of advantage for the device user by allowing for greater freedom in a user's viewing position lateral to the held device, said inclined side surface of said bracket attachment being surfaced in mid-area with hook and loop material and recessed at its distal ends, said mid-area surfacing corresponding with said bottom side hook and loop area of said demountable rigid support, said corresponding areas of said hook and loop material allowing for said rigid demountable support to attach to and release from said bracket attachment.

4. A weight bearing, pliable rod of prior art, U.S. Pat. No. 6,302,037 to Del Frari on Oct. 16, 2001, connecting to and releasing from said demountable inclined block of claim (1), one of said pliable rod's ends being connectable to said circular cut-through of said elongated rigid sheet end of said demountable inclined block, said connectable rod end being the embedding of one of said pliable rod's ends into a rigid square block, said square block having a transverse cut-through in its mid-section area and a shaft cut-through perpendicular to and intersecting the space of said transverse cut-through, said transverse cut-through mating correspondingly to said rigid sheet elongation of said inclined block so that said cut-through hole of said elongated sheet aligns with said shaft of said square block, a pin with locking mechanism inserted through said circular cut-through and said shaft connects said square block end of said pliable rod to said inclined block, opposed to said square block end of said pliable rod is a rectangular block end and having a plurality of aligned apertures, said rectangular end having a shaft perpendicular to and passing through said apertures, said apertures'openings being of variable widths, said variance of said aperture openings being accommodative to sheet materials of variable thicknesses, said sheet materials including but not being limited to light polarizing filters to assist in control of glare, polyester color filters for image enhancements, rigid sheets with prisms attached thereto, 3-D filters, wide angle magnification, image magnifying sheets, said sheets possessing a cut-through to accommodate aligning their position when inserted into said apertures with said shaft of said rectangular block, said alignment of said sheets allowing for a pin lock mechanism to pass through said shaft thereby passing through said sheets and said apertures, said pin lock mechanism being an easy means of attaching and releasing said sheet materials from said rectangular end of said rod, additional embodiments of means for holding said sheet materials may be a mechanism for applying spring tension against said sheets when said sheets are inserted into said apertures, said variance in means of holding said sheets being a substitution of forms, said alignment of said sheets also being a means for holding the additive properties of said sheet materials in alignment with one another, one practiced in this art will recognize this to be a means of designing the physical properties of the visual field above an electronic display screen, said properties including but not being limited to adjustable depth of field, use of wide angle lens magnification, polarization of the image light coming from the screen and ambient light surrounding the screen, filtering of color and wavelength of the light in the visual field, prism shifting of images located withing the field, sheet lens magnification of imagery within the field.

5. A means of connecting and releasing said pliable rod of claim (4) with said demountable rigid support of claim (1), said means being an assembly of two perpendicularly intersecting rectangles one of which has a circle cut-through, said cut-through rectangle may be pushed upwards and through said rectangular cut-through of said demountable rigid support till stopped by said horizontal rectangle coming to rest adjacent to said bottom side of said demountable rigid support, when in said position said vertical end of said assembly may receive the transverse cut-though of said square block end by said block end moving down onto said vertically extended rectangle, said vertical rectangle corresponding in dimensions to said transverse cut-through of said square block end, said size correspondence aligning said circular cut-through of said extending rectangle with said shaft of said square end, said block end connecting to said assembly by pin, one practiced in this art will consider that the addition of said pliable rod may be made directly to an electronic device in its manufacture, an embodiment of said addition may be to provide a compartment in which a pliable rod may be coiled within, said compartment being a substitution for said square block end, said means of designing the physical properties of the visual field above an electronic screen therefore being available directly to said device by means of adding said visual field properties of claim (4) herein.

6. A hollow opaque cylinder attachable to said pliable rod of claim (4), said cylinder having opposed opened ends, a rectangular rigid sheet with a circular cut-out fit to said cylinder's outside diameter, said cylinder sliding into said circular cut-out and being adhesively attached to said rigid sheet with said attached cylinder's end and said rigid sheet being level with one another, said attached end opening being reduced in size by attachment of a skin-safe circular mold silicone eyepiece to said rigid sheet so as to cover said opening, said molded eyepiece having a centered circular opening aligned with the central vertical axis of said cylinder and said opening being of lessor diameter than said cylinder, said cylinder's walls being of laminated construction, said laminations yielding variable cylinder wall thicknesses, laminations can be of a diameter to surround correspondingly sized circular objects with subsequent interior laminations reducing said cylinder's interior diameter above and below said objects thereby fastening said objects within said cylinder, a plurality of objects such as lenses may be fastened inside of said cylinder by said means, said lenses having cumulative effects therefore said cylinder may be designed in accordance with a prescription of one or a plurality of lenses, said cylinder's length may be customized to the properties of inserted materials such as an inserted lens's focal length as when said cylinder's length from said held lens to said cylinder's open end is the focal length of said lens, said rectangular sheet extending from its encirclement of said cylinder to said rectangular block, said opaque cylinder being a light shield for viewing electronic screens in all forms of adverse lighting conditions.