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US 5,707,036 AGranted
Bathtub book holding device
OwnerRonald Dunbarinventor
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Abstract
A bathtub book holding device that includes a bathtub rim clamping member with adjustable grasping legs and a top platform circular post to telescopically receive a T-shaped tubular connector which also receives telescopically a supporting beam member affixed to a rectangular planar book supporting member; the T-shaped connector replaceable with offset adjustable and non adjustable cross fittings to enhance vertical, horizontal and angular rectangular planar book supporting member ideal placement.
Claims6
A bathtub book holding device comprising:
- a bathtub rim clamping member having a lower inverted L-shaped component with a platform portion and an upper inverted L-shaped component with a platform portion arranged so that said platform portions overlap to result in upper and lower adjacent platforms, and are affixed by a threaded bolt shank that extends upwards from said lower inverted L-shaped component platform through a centrally disposed longitudinal slot in said upper L-shaped component platform where a threaded clamping knob is rotated around said threaded bolt shank to immobilize and secure said L-shaped components in a bathtub rim grasping position;
- and said upper L-shaped component platform end portion having a circular post that receives a paddle shaped cup holder and a leg portion of said inverted L-shaped component having a centrally located threaded aperture to receive a threaded bolt with a distal knob end and proximal end affixed with resilient material so that rotating said knob handle will move said resilient material against a bathtub wall and further immobilize and secure said clamping member to a bathtub rim;
- a T-shaped tubular fitting member providing telescopic connecting means to said L-shaped component platform end portion circular post and to a supporting bean, said T-shaped tubular fitting having a stem portion aperture to receive a flat end thumb screw that is turned to secure said T-shaped tubular fitting to said circular post and having a horizontal portion aperture to receive a flat end thumb screw that is turned to secure said T-shaped tubular fitting to said supporting beam;
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- a rectangular planar book supporting member secured to said supporting beam by bolt means and having top and bottom mounted clamping means and top and bottom book supporting ledges.
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A bathtub book holding device comprising:
- a bathtub rim clamping member having a lower inverted L shaped component with a platform portion and an upper inverted L-shaped component with a platform portion arranged so that said platform portions overlap to result in upper and lower adjacent platforms, and are affixed by a threaded bolt shank that extends upwards from said lower inverted L-shaped component platform through a centrally disposed longitudinal slot in said upper L-shaped component platform where a threaded clamping knob is rotated around said threaded bolt shank to immobilize and secure said L-shaped components in a bathtub rim grasping position;
- and said upper L-shaped component platform end portion having a circular post that receives a paddle shaped cup holder and a leg portion of said inverted L-shaped component having a centrally located threaded aperture to receive a threaded bolt with a distal knob end and proximal end affixed with resilient material so that rotating said knob handle will move said resilient material against a bathtub wall and further immobilize and secure said clamping member to a bathtub rim;
- an adjustable offset cross fitting member having a first tubular fitting with a right side arm, the first tubular fitting received by said circular post and the right side arm rotatably inserted into a lower horizontal portion of a second cross shaped tubular fitting whose upper horizontal portion telescopically receives a supporting beam;
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- a rectangular planar book supporting member secured to said supporting beam by bolt means and having top and bottom mounted clamping means and top and bottom book supporting ledges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.