Detachable mounting clip arrangement for miniature portable apparatus or the like
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorGeorge Joseph Selinko
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Abstract
A detachable mounting clip arrangement is disclosed especially suited for application with miniaturized radio apparatus or the like of the type intended to be worn on the person such as on a belt or in the shirt pocket. The clip arrangement includes a tapered base plate assembly designed to insert within a recess formed by two convergent undercut side walls on the apparatus housing itself and retained therein by a ratchet like serrated section included on the housing surface which interacts with a resilient finger extending laterally from the base plate. The base plate itself is designed to support a conventional pivotable mounting clip assembly and associated torsion spring.
Claims3
A detachable mounting clip arrangement especially suited for use with a portable, hand-held apparatus to be worn on the person, including in combination:
- a housing;
- a raised ridge on said housing with undercut side walls forming a three-sided tapered recess open at one end, said housing further having a plurality of serrations displaced from said walls;
- a base plate dimensioned to insert within said undercut side walls of said raised ridge tapered recess and having a laterally extending resilient finger releasably engaging a selected one of said housing serrations to lock said base plate in engagement with said housing;
- an elongated mounting clip;
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- means for pivotably securing said mounting clip to said base plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.