Mounting foot device for hi-fi equipment
OwnerTerje Borgeninventor
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Abstract
A mounting foot device for hi-fi equipment to prevent or limit acoustic feedback, comprising: an anchor bolt for affixing to said equipment, the bolt including a downward facing end face provided with a projecting spike; a housing which partially surrounds the bolt, and wherein the bolt has axial, but limited, movability in relation to the housing; a contact plate, either fixedly mounted in the housing or mounted with limited axial mobility in relation to the housing, and including an upper face and a lower face wherein the upper face is positioned facing toward the end face of the anchor bolt and the projecting spike, and is adapted to form a point contact with the spike and wherein when the bolt is under the weight of the hi-fi equipment, the bolt moves toward the contact plate.
Claims29
A mounting foot device for hi-fi equipment to prevent or limit acoustic feedback, comprising:
- an anchor bolt for affixing to said equipment, the bolt including a downward facing end face, the end face provided with a projecting spike, the projecting spike having a first angle of taper;
- a housing which partially surrounds the bolt, and wherein the bolt has axial, but limited, movability in relation to the housing;
- a contact plate being one of (1) fixedly mounted in the housing and (2) mounted with limited axial mobility in relation to the housing, and including an upper face and a lower face wherein the upper face is positioned facing toward the end face of the anchor bolt and the projecting spike, the projecting spike engaging the upper face of the contact plate in a point contact when the bolt is under the weight of the hi-fi equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.