# US 5,703,306 A · Device holder for drums

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- Number: US 5,703,306 A
- Document ID: US5703306A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/677,624
- Filed: 1996-07-08
- Granted: 1997-12-30
- Earliest claimed: 1996-07-08
- Assignees: Hwa Shin Musical Instrument Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Tsun-Chi Liao
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5703306A

## CPC

- F16M 11/24: changeable in height or length of legs, also for transport only, {e.g. by means of tubes screwed into each other}(F16M11/42 takes precedence)
- F16M 13/02: for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
- G10D 13/06: Castanets, cymbals, triangles, tambourines without drumheads or other single-toned percussion musical instruments
- G10D 13/28: {Mountings or supports for individual drums (supports for carrying musical instrument, while playing G10G5/005)}
- F16M: FRAMES, CASINGS OR BEDS OF ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO ENGINES, MACHINES OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; SUPPORTS
- G10D: STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (organs, harmoniums or similar wind musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means G10H)

## Abstract

A device holder for drums, including a base frame having two eyed lugs bilaterally disposed at one end and a bolt hole spaced between the eyed lugs and a longitudinal open-ended slot at an opposite end, box end bolt inserted through the through hole of the base frame and screwed up with a wing nut to hold a rod member with an instrument in the eyed lugs, an arched retaining block having a fixed end pivoted to the base frame in the middle and a free end, and a locating bolt having a head pivoted to the free end of the arched retaining block and a screw body detachably secured to the longitudinal open-ended slot of the base frame by a wing nut to secure the curved retaining block and the base frame to one tie rod between two counterloops of a drum.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A device holder adapted for fastening to a tie rod between two counterloops of a drum to hold a rod member and an instrument on the rod member, the device holder comprising:
a base frame shaped as a U-channel, said base frame comprising a bottom wall, two parallel upright side walls raised from said bottom wall at two opposite sides, two upright lugs respectively raised from said upright side walls at one end and defining a respective through hole, a longitudinal open-ended slot disposed in said bottom wall at an opposite end remote from said upright lugs, two arched notches respectively disposed at said upright side walls, two pivot holes respectively formed in said upright side walls and disposed between said upright lugs and said arched notches, and a bolt hole formed in said bottom wall between said upright lugs;
a holding down device mounted in the bolt hole of said base frame and adapted for securing a rod member in the through holes of said upright lugs to hold an instrument;
a curved retaining block having a fixed end pivotably connected between the pivot holes of said base frame by a pivot, an open-ended free end, and an arched bottom notch adapted for acting with the arched notches of said base frame to secure said base frame to one tie rod of the drum; and
a fastening device pivoted to the open-ended free end of said curved retaining block and adapted for securing the open-ended free end to the bottom wall of said base frame for permitting the arched bottom notch of said curved retaining block and the arched notches of said base frame to be clamped on the tie rod of the drum.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The device holder of claim 1 wherein said holding down device comprises a box end screw inserted through the bolt hole of said base frame, and a wing nut threaded onto said box end screw, said box end screw having a box end aligned between the through holes of said upright lugs.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The device holder of claim 1 wherein said fastening device comprises a locating screw bolt having a head pivotably connected to the open-ended free end of said curved retaining block by a pivot and a screw body extending from said head, and a wing nut threaded onto the screw body of said locating screw bolt to secure it to the longitudinal open-ended slot of said base frame.