US2703823A - Auxiliary cradle bracket for telephone stands - Google Patents

Description

F. ORMS 7 March 8, 1955 AUXILIARY CRADLE BRACKET FOR TELEPHONE STANDS Fil ed Jun; 5. 1952 Fig-3 Francis Orms INVENTOR. 40gb.

BY fill all United States Patent AUXILIARY CRADLE BRACKET FOR TELEPHONE STANDS Francis Orms, North Akron, Ohio Application June 3, 1952, Serial No. 291,511

1 Claim. (Cl. 179-146) The present invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in telephone stand attachments, and has more particular reference to ways and means whereby, upon utilizing two simple and economical specially constructed brackets and attaching these to existing lugs on a stand cradle, an auxiliary cradle is bad, one which is ample to effectively hang the receiver while maintaining the talking circuit closed.

It is a matter of common knowledge that many and varied styles and forms of so-called auxiliary cradles have been proposed by others. In some instances the cradling means is formed integrally with the main or primary cradle and in other adaptations attachments of one type or another have been utilized. The instant solution of the problem has to do with the adoption and use of two simple, practical and economical brackets.

More specifically, novelty is predicated upon the adoption and use of brackets, each of which has a receiver seating and supporting portion with a retaining lug at one end of said portion. The primary feature is in utilizing brackets which are preferably constructed of plastics or a good grade of rubber and wherein the brackets are provided with accommodating and adapter means at their attachable ends. The means is novel in that it is charac terized primarily by a heavy duty rubber band or strap which partly embraces the anchoring lug to which it is attached and which is sufliciently elastic that it will conformingly fit variously shaped lugs used on currently constructed cradles.

Then, too, novelty is predicated on adapter means which also includes flexibly resilient spaced parallel side flanges, these having the band stretched therebetween and coacting with the main body of the bracket in rendering themselves conformably adaptable to cradle lugs of different sizes and cross-sections.

Other objects, features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and the accompanying sheet of drawings.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the views:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a so-called Frenchtype telephone showing the base or stand in full lines and showing the duplex receiver in phantom lines, the cradling brackets being shown applied to the stock lugs on the rear cradle portion of the stand.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the brackets as constructed in accordance with the specific principles of this invention.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken approximately on the plane of the line 3-3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring now to the drawings, the stand in Figure 1 is denoted generally by the numeral 4 and it is more or less conventional in form and includes a horizontal base portion 6 and a cradle which may be called the main cradle, this being denoted by the numeral 8 and being characterized by a pair of forward lugs 10-10 and rearward similarly constructed lugs 12-12. The switch buttons are denoted by the numerals 14-14. The usual hand hole in the back for lifting purposes is denoted by the numeral 16 and the inclined back wall is denoted at 18. Normally the receiver, or hand-set, as it is more frequently called is seated in the cradle, that is, the main cradle 8. When one picks it up and desires to hold the general or over-all appearance and shape.

2,703,823 Patented Mar. 8, 1955 phone for someone else to carry on, the receiver may now be, with the use of improved brackets, set thereon usmg the improved brackets as an auxiliary cradle.

The brackets are duplicates of each other and they are detachably mounted on the so-called rear retaining lugs 1212. They actually constitute stirrup-like extensions which project from the lugs and overlie the back wall 18. As previously stated retaining lugs on telephone cradle stands vary and therefore differ in external shape and cross sectional design in height, etc. That is to say, some are flat across the top and some are convex and others are like truncated pyramids, etc. There are just such diiferences between lugs that to provide a support bracket which is more or less universal in character it has to be conformable and adaptable to the ordinary varying types of lugs which will be encountered. To this end each bracket is in the form of a solid rubber block 20 which may be said to be approximately triangular in The lower portion is slightly convex as at 22 and the upper surface portion 24 is flat and linearly straight and this forms the primary seat for the receiver and it has a retaining lug 26 at one end. The inward end of the block is preferably obliquely inclined as at 28 where it provides an abutment. Projecting beyond the abutment in spaced parallel relationship are flexibly resilient flanges 3030. These lend themselves to accommodating attachment to and retention on varying lugs. Mainly the principal adapting feature is the cross strap or rubber band 32. This is a heavy duty type and it is simply strapped over the lug and conforms thereto. What with this rubber band, with the two flanges and the inclined abutment means, these four components contribute in producing variable adapter means which is generally referred to by the numeral 34.

In practice, the adapter connections 24 of the respective brackets 20 are snapped over their respective supporting lugs so that the seat portions 24 extend in coplanar relation and overlie the back wall 18 of the stand. What with the two brackets thus anchored and spaced apart they cooperate in providing a reliable cradle auxiliary to the main cradle, as brought out advantageously in Figure l of the drawings.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the invention relates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the invention after considering the description in connection with the drawings. Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in shape, size and arrangement of details coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to in actual practice, if desired.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

Auxiliary cradle means for use in conjunction with the usual main cradle on a dial-type telephone stand wherein said main cradle has upstanding receiver holding lugs at its corner portions, said means comprising a pair of readily applicable and removable brackets which are connectible with two of said lugs, each bracket having a seat portion with a retaining lug at one end thereof and being provided at the opposite end of said seat portion with adapter means which may be saddled over and suspended from one of said first named lugs, said adapter means embodying an obliquely inclined end forming an abutment, a pair of flexibly resilient spaced parallel flanges projecting angularly from said abutment, and an elastic strap connecting intermediate portions of the respective flanges, with the strap projecting at right angles to the respective planes of the flanges in the manner shown and described.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,849,277 Casbarro et al. Mar. 15, 1932 2,551,141 Langis et al. May 1, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS 534,250 Great Britain Mar. 3, 1941

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