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US 4,308,432 AGranted
Auxiliary cradle holding device for a telephone
OwnerRichard S. Chesler, Gary Straussinventors
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an auxiliary cradle holding device which is removably attached to a desk type telephone, wherein the handset of the telephone is removably received on the cradle holding device and the cylindrical plunger members of the telephone are in a depressed position, when the handset is positioned on the cradle holding device.
Claims12
An auxiliary cradle holding device adapted to be removably affixed to a desk type telephone which comprises:
- (a) an L-shaped element having a vertically disposed leg and a horizontally disposed leg;
- (b) a first plate member;
- (c) a first pivot means for pivotally joining said first plate member to an upper end of said vertically disposed leg of said L-shaped member, said first plate member extendng horizontally and forwardly out from said vertically disposed leg of said L-shaped member;
- (d) a pair of spaced arm members affixed to an edge of said first plate member, said arm member extending outwardly and forwardly from said first plate member, said arm members being adapted to removably receive a handset of said telephone thereon;
- (e) an elongated bar member, said elongated bar member affixed to said horizontally disposed leg of said L-shaped member on an upper surface of said horizontally disposed leg of said L-shaped member along the juncture of said vertically disposed leg and said horizontally disposed leg of said L-shaped member;
- (f) a second plate member;
- (g) a pair of flange members, one of said flange members being affixed to one side of said second plate member and the other said flange members being affixed to the other side of said second plate member, said flange members being adapted to removably engage the cylindrical, plunger members of said telephone;
- (h) a second pivot means for pivotally joining said second plate member along a rear edge thereof to said elongated bar member;
- (i) a strap member;
- (j) a third pivot means for pivotally joining an upper end of said strap member to said first plate member;
- (k) a fourth pivot means for pivotally joining a lower end of said strap member to said second plate member;
- (l) a tension means communicating between said fourth pivot means and said upper end of said upper end of said vertically disposed leg of said L-shaped member;
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- (m) means for removably securing said auxiliary cradle holding device to said telephone.
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