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US 6,283,706 B1Granted
Adjustable harness for a portable fan
AssigneeAtico International USA, Inc.
InventorsMarian Harding Cochran, Peter T. Cobrin, Robert J. Hess
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AssigneeAtico International USA, Inc.
InventorsMarian Harding Cochran, Peter T. Cobrin, Robert J. Hess
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A portable apparatus that includes fan and a harness adapted to permit the fan to be hung from a harness in a self-supported position on the wearer and which permits relocation of the fan to vary the distance of the fan from the neck of the wearer. The harness includes a cord that is looped about the wearer's neck and which passes through an adjustable coupler, whose sidewalls are configured and arranged to deform in response to squeezing forces. In response to the sidewalls being squeezed, the adjustable coupler releases the cord to permit simultaneous relative movement of the adjustable coupler along the cord. In response to removal of the squeezing forces, the adjustable coupler resiliently returns to its undeformed condition, grasping the cord to prevent relative movement of the adjustable coupler.
A portable apparatus, comprising:
A method of adjusting a relative position of a fan, comprising hanging a loop of a cord around a wearer's neck, the loop being defined between to spaced apart portions of the cord that are within an adjustable coupler, mounting the cord to a support component of a fan support, supporting a fan with the support component, sliding the adjustable coupler along the cord through a plurality of relative positions while squeezing the adjustable coupler under manual force, releasing the manual force to grasp the two spaced apart portions with the adjustable coupler and thereby prevent further relative movement of the adjustable coupler while the manual force is released, and positioning the support component between the adjustable coupler and a frame that encloses rotary fan blades of the fan, the fan being operative to generate air flow through openings in the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.