Neck harness

A neck harness for suspending a hand-held scanner about a user's neck for disposition of the scanner at a viewable angle forwardly of the user's torso, comprising:

• a housing for receiving a scanner, said housing having a channel formed by two side walls, a back wall, and bottom, said channel accommodating the insertion and removal of a scanner, said lip accommodating a projecting antennae and control knobs of a received scanner;
• a rigid brace arrangement comprising two pair of elongated and rigid brace members, each said pair of brace members having first ends respectively attached to said side walls of said housing, each said brace member of each said pair having second ends projecting upwardly from said housing, said second ends of said brace members of each said pair securely attached together;
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• a flaccid neck strap having opposite ends attached respectively to said rigid brace members;
• wherein said housing and said rigid brace arrangement cooperate to suspend the said housing hands-free at an upward angle from a user's torso when said housing is suspended about a user's neck for easy viewability of the scanner, said back wall of said housing supportingly engaging the user's torso, and
• wherein said neck strap suspends said housing and said brace arrangement at an elevation against a user's torso for stable suspension of the scanner substantially unaffected by movement of the user between standing and sitting positions and all transitional positions therebetween.

A neck harness for suspending a hand-held scanner about a users neck, comprising:

• a housing for receiving a scanner to be suspended, said housing having a length and an end engageable with a user's torso, said housing defining a lengthwise channel for accommodating the insertion of a scanner;
• a rigid brace arrangement having a pair of rigid V-shaped angular support members, each said support member respectively attached to said housing at opposite side walls of said channel and having converging portions projecting upwardly from said housing;
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• an elongated flaccid neck strap having two opposite ends attached to said rigid brace arrangement, each said end of said strap attached to one of said converging portions at attachment points;
• wherein each said V-shaped support member has a predetermined angular orientation relative to said housing for disposing each said converging portion so that, when said neck harness is suspended from a user's neck, said attachment points are horizontally closer to the user's torso than the center of mass of said brace arrangement, said housing, and a received scanner, thereby resulting in a gravitational torque about the attachment points tending to urge said engageable end of said housing upward and into a user's torso for stabilized suspension of said housing at an angle forwardly of the user's torso during movement of the user between standing and sitting positions, and all transitional positions therebetween, and further tending to stabilize suspension of said housing at a different angle forwardly of the user's torso when said housing is shifted to said different angle, said center of mass still positioned further horizontally away from the torso than said attachment points when said housing is oriented at said different angle.