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US 8,544,805 B2Granted
Mounting system for removably securing an object to a surface
AssigneeVirGiaN, LLC
InventorWilliam Kyle Virgin
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Abstract
A mounting system is disclosed for removably securing an object to a support surface. The mounting system includes a retaining clip having a rear wall to be secured to the support surface, and a front wall spaced from the rear wall to form a pocket therebetween with an open upper side, an aperture in the front wall opening into the pocket and extending to an upper side of the front wall, and a sliding clip having a sliding portion sized to be vertically slid into and out of the pocket, and an attachment portion forwardly extending form the sliding portion to be secured to the tablet computer. The attachment portion is closely received in the aperture when the sliding portion is in the pocket and has a thickness substantially equal to or less than a thickness of the front wall.
Claims17
A mounting system comprising, in combination:
- an object to be removably secured to a support surface;
- a retaining clip having a rear wall to be secured to the support surface, and a front wall spaced from the rear wall to form a pocket therebetween with an open upper side and a closed lower side;
- an aperture in the front wall opening into the pocket and extending to an upper side of the front wall;
- a sliding clip having a sliding portion sized to be vertically slid into and out of the pocket, and an attachment portion forwardly extending from the sliding portion and secured to the object;
- wherein a rear surface of the sliding portion of the sliding clip and a front surface of the retaining clip rear wall engaged by the sliding portion of the sliding clip as the sliding portion is vertically slide into and out of the pocket are each planar so that the sliding portion freely slides into and out of the pocket and is retained in the pocket only by friction;
- double-sided adhesive tape directly secured to a forward side of the attachment portion and directly secured to a rear side of the object to secure the sliding clip to the object;
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- wherein a thickness of the sliding portion is substantially equal to or less than a thickness of the pocket so that the sliding portion is closely received in the pocket and there is no free-play of the sliding portion relative to the retaining clip within the pocket in the forward and rearward directions, the attachment portion is closely received in the aperture when the sliding portion is in the pocket, and the attachment portion has a thickness no more than a thickness of the front wall so that the object is spaced from the front wall of the retaining clip a distance no more than a thickness of the double-sided adhesive tape and there is substantially no free-play of the object relative to the retaining clip in the forward and rearward directions;
- wherein the sliding portion of the sliding clip and the pocket of the retaining clip are provided with different draft angles so that the fit gets tighter as the sliding portion is slid into the pocket.
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A tablet computer mounting system comprising, in combination:
- a tablet computer having a rear side and a front side with a touch screen display;
- a retaining clip having a rear wall and a front wall spaced from the rear wall to form a pocket therebetween with an open upper side and a closed lower side;
- an aperture in the front wall opening into the pocket and extending to an upper side of the front wall;
- a sliding clip having a sliding portion sized to be vertically slid into and out of the pocket, and an attachment portion forwardly extending from the sliding portion and secured to the rear side of the tablet computer;
- wherein a rear surface of the sliding portion of the sliding clip and a front surface of the retaining clip rear wall engaged by the sliding portion of the sliding clip as the sliding portion is vertically slid into:
- and out of the pocket are each planar so that the sliding portion freely slides into and out of the pocket and is retained in the pocket only by friction;
- double-sided adhesive tape directly secured to a forward side of the attachment portion and directly secured to a rear side of the tablet computer to secure the sliding clip to the tablet computer;
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- wherein a thickness of the sliding portion is substantially equal to or less than a thickness of the pocket so that the sliding portion is closely received in the pocket and there is no free-play of the sliding portion relative to the retaining clip within the pocket in the forward and rearward directions, the attachment portion is closely received in the aperture when the sliding portion is in the pocket, and the attachment portion has a thickness no more than a thickness of the front wall so that the tablet computer is spaced from the front wall of the retaining clip a distance no more than a thickness of the double-sided adhesive tape and there is substantially no free-play of the tablet computer relative to the retaining clip in the forward and rearward directions;
- wherein the sliding portion of the sliding clip and the pocket of the retaining clip are provided with different draft angles so that the fit gets tighter as the sliding portion is slid into the pocket.
7 more elements
A mounting system comprising, in combination:
- an object to be removably secured to a support surface;
- a retaining clip having a rear wall to be secured to the support surface, and a front wall spaced from the rear wall to form a pocket therebetween with an open upper side;
- an aperture in the front wall opening into the pocket and extending to an upper side of the front wall;
- a frame clip having a plurality of sliding clips connected together, wherein one of the plurality of sliding clips is selected to be received in the retaining clip while the other of the plurality of sliding clips are unused;
- wherein each of the sliding clips has a sliding portion sized to be vertically slid into and out of the pocket, and an attachment portion forwardly extending from the sliding portion and secured to the object;
- wherein a rear surface of the sliding portion of the sliding clips and a front surface of the retaining clip rear wall engaged by the sliding portion of the sliding clips as the sliding portion is vertically slid into and out of the pocket are each planar so that the sliding portion freely slides into and out of the pocket and is retained in the pocket only by friction;
- wherein each of the sliding clips has double-sided adhesive tape directly secured to a forward side of the attachment portion and directly secured to a rear side of the object to secure the sliding clip to the object;
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- wherein a thickness of the sliding portion of each of the sliding clips is substantially equal to a thickness of the pocket so that the sliding portion is closely received in the pocket, the attachment portion is closely received in the aperture when the sliding portion is in the pocket, and the attachment portion has a thickness substantially equal to a thickness of the front wail so that the object is spaced from the front wall of the retaining clip a distance no more than a thickness of the double-sided adhesive tape and there is substantially no free-play of the object relative to the retaining clip in the forward and rearward directions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.