US 6,206,542 B1Granted

Flashlight support device

AssigneeRCP Enterprises, Inc.

InventorsRichard N. Case, Howard Steve Ellenburg

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Abstract

A flashlight support device having a hollow open body that has at least one open end and is designed to removably fit over the body of a flashlight. Attached in substantially diametric opposition adjacent to one open end is at least one pair of separate legs for rotation in the Y-axis. Each leg is comprised of a bendable material and is capable of being bent, without any additional mechanism, into substantially any position and configuration in the X and Z-axis. A rotation mechanism and the adjustable and bendable legs attached thereto allows each rotatable and bendable leg to be rotated into a number of incremental positions in the Y-axis over a range of a full 360°. In preferred embodiments, the flashlight support device has two opposed open ends, and there are at least two pairs of adjustable and bendable legs attached to the hollow body for rotation in the Y-axis.

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Dependent claims

A flashlight support device including:

a hollow open body having an axial length dimension and a first and a second end, at least one said end being open, said hollow open body designed and dimensioned to removably receive the body of a flashlight within said open end;
at least one pair of leg receiving means carried by said hollow open body, each said leg receiving means of said pair being at substantially the same axial length position on said hollow open body, each said leg receiving means of said pair of leg receiving means being spaced apart from each said other leg receiving means of said pair
at least one pair of adjustable and bendable legs, each leg of said pair being carried by one of said leg receiving means of said at least one pair of leg receiving means, each leg of each pair being separate from each other leg of the same pair of legs, at least one leg of said pair being rotatable with respect to said leg receiving means in a Y-axis, each said leg being comprised of a bendable material and capable of being manually bent, without any additional mechanism, into substantially any stable position and configuration in the X and Z-axis.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.