Ear clip speakers that interlock and enable cord spooling
OwnerKarl Dallas Kirk III, William Fiebel +1inventors
InventorsKarl Dallas Kirk III, William Fiebel, Anna Stern
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Abstract
A structure and method of arrangement for use in audio playback that includes a pair of speakers each having a housing and fasteners, which may cooperate to provide a convex configuration. The fasteners include two spring biased fasteners that are configured to retract simultaneously in each of the housings. Once they are retracted simultaneously, the housings may be twisted relative to each other to lock the speakers together through engagement of two fixed fasteners and through spring bias from the two spring biased fasteners. An audio cord or wire of the speakers may then be spooled about a junction formed where the fixed fasteners overlap each other to effect the engagement.
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A structure for use in audio playback, comprising:
- a pair of audio speakers each having a housing, a retractable fastener movable between a retracted position and a fully extended position, and a fixed fastener movable between a locking position and an unlocking position while the retractable fasteners are in the retracted position and one of the fixed fasteners overlaps the other of the fixed fasteners.
A method of arranging a structure for use in audio playback, comprising moving housings of two speakers between a locking condition and an unlocking condition, the moving including moving the housing to the locking condition by aligning a retractable fastener of one of the speakers with a fixed fastener of the other of the fasteners and a fixed fastener of the one of the speakers with a retractable fastener of the other the speakers, retracting the retractable fasteners of each of the speakers simultaneously and then twisting the housings relative to each other so that fixed fasteners of the speakers engage each other, the moving including moving the housings to an unlocking condition by untwisting the housings relative to each other to clear engagement of the fixed fasteners from each other and then fully extending each of the retractable fasteners to thereby separate the speakers.
A structure for audio playback, comprising:
- two audio speakers each having housings and fasteners that cooperate to provide a convex configuration, the fasteners of one of the speakers being arranged to be in engagement with the fasteners of the other of the speakers to lock the housings together and being configured to release from each other by disengaging the fasteners, the fasteners of each of the speakers including one that is retractable between a retracted and fully extended position and one that is fixed against retraction.
A structure for audio playback, comprising:
- an audio speaker having a housing and fasteners that cooperate with each other to provide a convex configuration, the fasteners being arranged to engage with counterpart fasteners of another speaker to lock and being configured to release by disengaging the fasteners, the fasteners including one that is retractable between a retracted and fully extended position and one that is fixed against retraction.
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