Overhead television

Abstract

A bedside television designed to permit a patient, or the like, to view the television while comfortably lying in bed without bending his neck. The bedside television device includes a television mounted substantially above the head of the patient and having a screen on which an image is displayed, the screen facing substantially upwardly, a pair of orthogonally disposed mirrors for reflecting the image displayed on the screen so as to create a virtual image of the image at a position above and forward of the patient at a distance that is further from the patient than the screen, and a mounting mechanism for mounting the television and the mirrors to a wall. The television and the mirrors are pivotally disposed in the mounting mechanism so as to be rotatable from a closed, non-viewing position to an open, viewing position. The mounting mechanism includes a support bracket secured to the wall and extending outwardly therefrom, a cradle pivotally secured to the bracket and supporting the television in such a manner that the television is pivotal from the viewing position to the non-viewing position by rotating the cradle, and a cabinet pivotally secured to the cradle and having the mirrors disposed on inside, orthogonal surfaces thereof such that the mirrors are rotatable from the viewing position to the non-viewing position by rotating the cabinet.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.