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US 10,378,691 B2Granted
Trophy mount and skull clamp
AssigneeTypical 4, LLC
InventorsEric Allred, Brian Allred
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Abstract
A trophy mount and a skull clamp are disclosed. The trophy mount can comprise a skull coupling feature configured to interface with and support a skull, and a positioning device configured to provide rotation of the skull coupling feature in at least two rotational degrees of freedom to facilitate positioning of the skull. The skull clamp can comprise a first jaw configured to extend into a foramen magnum of an occipital bone of a skull toward a nose end of the skull, and a second jaw operable with the first jaw to clamp the occipital bone and secure a bottom of the skull.
Claims14
A skull clamp, comprising:
- a first jaw including a socket end which tapers along two beveled surfaces into a wedge disposed along a length of the first jaw, the wedge being formed by tapering a width of the first jaw at the socket end from a first width and along the two beveled surfaces to a second width, narrower than the first width, and towards a skull interface end of the first jaw, the skull interface end of the first jaw beginning after the wedge at the second width and maintaining the second width that is narrower than the socket end until the termination of the skull interface end of the first jaw, wherein the first jaw includes a void which is at least partially surrounded and defined by bearing surfaces on the socket end of the first jaw, the bearing surfaces riding on a ball and
- a second jaw securable to the first jaw and including a socket end and a skull interface end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.