Carpet engaging support device
OwnerDonald A. Gishinventor
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Abstract
Carpet engaging support devices for anchoring tippable or slidable objects in desired position on a carpeted floor, the devices having one or more sharpened prongs engagable through and under the carpet, with the prongs being arranged to hold the devices on the carpet against unwanted removal. Spring clips, detent means and magnetic means are provided for releasably securing the devices to the objects to be anchored. In one aspect of the invention, the devices are particularly suited for anchoring a receptacle balanced on top of a carpeted floor hump in an automobile, while in other aspects the devices are particularly suited for anchoring mats, throw rugs and the like.
Claims9
A carpet engaging support device comprising a body,
- first and second pairs of elongated prong means rigidly fixed to the underside of said body, each of said prong means terminating in a sharp point capable of penetrating a carpet,
- said prong means being formed to extend below said body for hooking under said carpet and removably securing said body thereto,
- one of said pairs of prong means extending initially at a slight angle to parallel to said body in one direction from points of merger with said body, to penetrate the carpet so that the carpet is disposed between said prongs and said body;
- the other pair of said prong means initially extending downward from said body and substantially perpendicular thereto with the tips thereof extending slightly in the direction opposite to said one direction, and being bendable so that driving said body downwardly against said carpet with said initially downward extending prong means substantially fully penetrating said carpet and engaging a hard, impenetrable carpet supporting surface bends said other pair of prong means below said carpet in said opposite direction to a position generally parallel to said body to lock said pairs of prong means against withdrawal from said carpet;
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- mounting means fixed on the upper side of said body formed for securing an object thereto.
A carpet engaging device as described in claim and wherein said mounting means comprises a magnet and keeper mounted on said body and on an object to be supported.
In combination with a receptacle adopted to be removably carried on an automobile floor hump and having laterally extending flexible skirts comformable to the contours of such hump, carpet engaging support devices mounted at opposite sides of such hump with each of said support devices comprising an elongated flattened body,
- first and second pairs of elongated prongs rigidly fixed to said body to extend downwardly therefrom,
- said first pair of elongated prongs being secured to said body and extending in one direction at a slight angle to parallel to it length,
- said second pair of elongated prongs being secured to said body and extending substantially perpendicular thereto with the tips thereof extending slightly in the direction opposite to said one direction,
- each of said prongs terminating in a sharp point capable of penetrating through a carpet on the floor of said automobile,
- each of said prongs being stiffly bendable whereby forcing of said prongs against said carpet causes such prongs to penetrate through such carpet and further downward forcing of said prongs against the floor of said automobile causes same to bend and extend under said carpet in opposite directions and grip said carpet between said prongs and said body and lock said prongs against removal from said carpet, and
- a flattened spring clip mounted on the side of said body remote from said prongs and formed for releasably grasping one of said flexible skirts for stabilizing the position of said receptacle on said floor hump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.