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US 6,484,918 B1Granted
Stethoscope holder
OwnerGigi C. Lefebvreinventor
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Abstract
Combined stethoscope integral housing and belt adapter for mounting a stethoscope on the belt of a care giver. The integral housing has a back wall and first and second side walls. The upper portion of each side wall contains an ear piece receptacle. A pair of front walls are spaced apart from each other to form a slot and spaced apart from the back wall to form an opening for a stethoscope chest piece. The belt adapter is hingedly attached to a back upper portion of the housing by an axially mounted rod.
Claims6
A stethoscope holder with combined belt adapter for supporting a stethoscope, the stethoscope holder and combined belt adapter comprising:
- an integral stethoscope holder housing having a back wall, first and second side walls, an upper portion of each side wall having a stethoscope ear piece receptacle, a pair of front walls spaced apart to form a slot therebetween, the pair of front walls spaced apart from the back wall to form an opening for receipt of a stethoscope chest piece, an opening at the bottom of the slot for receipt of a stethoscope tube;
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- the belt adapter adapted for mounting on a belt of a care giver, the adapter hingedly attached to the stethoscope holder housing by a rod axially aligned with bores in an inner wall of each ear piece receptacle and a bore in parallel upper side wall portions of the adapter, so that with the adapter mounted, the stethoscope chest piece rests in the opening inside the slot, each stethoscope ear piece rests in an ear piece receptacle and the stethoscope tube descends through the opening at the bottom of the slot in the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.