US 5,187,744 A · Hand-held portable telephone holder

Abstract

A hand-held portable telephone holder for releasably holding a hand-held portable car telephone has two laterally adjustable fingers disposed upon one side of a substantially planar body and two spring biased fingers pivotally disposed upon the opposite side of the body such that a hand-held portable telephone may be positioned intermediate the first and second fingers and grasped under spring tension thereby. The hand-held portable telephone is disposed intermediate the first and second fingers by first placing the hand-held portable telephone in contact with the second fingers and utilizing the hand-held portable telephone to urge the second fingers to pivot outwardly against spring tension, thus increasing the distance between the first and second fingers. The hand-held portable telephone is then disposed in laminar juxtaposition to the body of the holder. When the hand-held portable telephone is released, the second fingers pivot inwardly to capture the hand-held portable telephone between the first and second fingers. Lateral adjustment of the first fingers allows the hand-held portable telephone holder to accommodate hand-held portable telephones of various widths.

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Dependent claims

A portable telephone holder comprising:

a generally rectangular body having an upper surface against which the portable telephone is positionable and first and second longitudinally extending side surfaces;
a pair of first fingers attached to said body and extending upwardly from said first side surface in a generally perpendicular orientation relative said upper surface, each of said first fingers being independently, laterally adjustable relative said first side surface;
and
a pair of second fingers pivotally attached to said body and extending upwardly from said second side surface, each of said second fingers being spring-biased to a generally perpendicular orientation relative said upper surface and being independently pivotal outwardly relative said second side surface in a direction away from said first fingers;
said portable telephone being disposed within said holder by pressing the telephone against the second fingers in a manner causing the second fingers to pivot away from said first fingers, and urging the telephone downwardly against the upper surface so as to capture the telephone between the first and second fingers, the lateral adjustability of the first fingers being adapted to facilitate the holding of telephones of various widths and configurations between the pairs of first and second fingers.

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