Clip mount air freshener assembly
OwnerPaul J. Lordinventor
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Abstract
A clip mount air freshener assembly has an air freshening element, and a holder providing a channel which slidably seats the air freshening element, and a spring mounting clip for mounting the air freshener assembly on the grill of a ventilator so that a stream of air issuing therefrom will flow over the exposed surface of the air freshening element. In the preferred embodiment, the holder and the clip are separate members, with each of the members providing pivot surfaces. A connector between the holder and the clip provides pivoting elements, pivotable on the pivot surfaces to provide pivotal motion of the holder in two orthogonal axes of rotation with respect to the spring mounting clip.
Claims10
A clip mount air freshener assembly comprising:
- (a) a substantially planar air freshening element comprising a body of substantially uniform thickness containing a diffusible air freshening material;
- (b) a holder having a base wall and opposed upstanding side walls with inwardly extending lips at the upper portions thereof and providing a channel entirely open over its length but for the lips, said holder being open at one end thereof and slidably seating said air freshening element, said element being removable and insertable into said channel through said open end thereof without dissassembly of said holder and said lips retaining said air freshening element in said channel, the major portion of the outer surface of said element being exposed to the atmosphere;
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- (c) a spring mounting clip extending outwardly from the other end of said holder and having a pair of jaws orientable in substantially axial alignment with said channel, whereby said air freshener assembly may be mounted on the grill of an associated ventilating device so that a stream of air issuing therefrom will flow over said exposed surface of said air freshening element.
A clip mount air freshener assembly comprising:
- (a) a substantially planar air freshening element comprising a body containing a diffusible air freshening material;
- (b) a holder having a base wall and opposed upstanding sidewalls with inwardly extending lips at the upper portions thereof and providing a channel substantially open over its length, said holder being open at one end and said channel seating said air freshening element for passage of air over a substantial portion of the surface thereof, said freshening element being insertable into and removable from said channel through said open end thereof without disassembly of said holder and said lips retaining said element in said channel;
- (c) a spring mounting clip having a pair of jaws for mounting said air freshener assembly on the grill of an associated ventilating device;
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- (d) a connector connecting the other end of said holder and said clip with said jaws being spaced from said holder and orientable in substantially axial alignment with said channel, one of said clip and holder providing a first pivot surface and the other of said clip and holder providing a second pivot surface, said connector having a first pivoting element pivotable on said first pivot surface and a second pivoting element pivotable on said second pivot surface, said holder thereby being rotatable along at least two orthogonal axes of rotation with respect to said spring mounting clip.
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