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US 8,910,914 B2Granted
Mount for electronics equipment
AssigneeAudix Corporation
InventorFred Bigeh
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Abstract
A mount that is useful for mounting electronics equipment such as audio or video equipment such as a microphone or a camera in a desired orientation has first and second interconnected body members that retain a swivel adapter that is movable in a ball and socket swivel joint relative to the body members. The body members rotated on threaded connections to thereby adjust the tightness of the swivel adaptor retained between the body members. A stop prevents inadvertent disassembly of the assembled mounting apparatus.
Claims16
Electronics equipment mount comprising:
- a first body member having an open interior and an upper end with an opening into the open interior, said opening defining a first diameter;
- a second body member connected to the first body member, the first and second body members movable relative to one another such that the second body member may be moved toward and away from said first body member;
- a swivel member retained in the open interior of the first body member and movable relative thereto, the swivel member having an arm extending through the opening in the upper end of the first body member and adapted for attaching electronics equipment thereto, and the swivel member having a ball, wherein the ball has a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter;
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- a stop for preventing the second body member from being disconnected from the first body member, said stop defined by a pin extending into a bore in said second body member and having an outer end residing in an annular slot formed in said first body member, wherein the open interior of the first body member has a third diameter that is equal to the diameter of an opening into a lower end of said first body member, and wherein the annular slot in the first body member defines a fourth diameter that is greater than the third diameter, and wherein the first body member has at least one opening into said annular slot through a wall portion of said first body member.
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Electronics equipment mount comprising:
- a main body comprising a first body member interconnected with a second body member and movable relative thereto between a first position and a second position, the first body member having an open interior and an opening into the open interior through one end of the first body member, said opening having a first diameter, the second body member defining an interior semispherical seat that is in the open interior of the first body member;
- wherein said first body member has an annular slot facing said second body member and said second body member has a bore formed therein aligned with said annular slot;
- a swivel having a ball with a second diameter and an arm extending from said ball, said ball retained in said open interior of the first body member with the ball oriented relative to said semispherical seat so that said ball is movable on said semispherical seat and so that said arm extends through said opening through one end of the first body member;
- and a stop for preventing the second body member from being disconnected from the first body member, said stop defined by a pin extending into said bore in said second body member and having an outer end residing in said annular slot formed in said first body member;
- wherein the open interior of the first body member has a third diameter that is equal to the diameter of the opening into a lower end of said first body member, and wherein the annular slot in the first body member defines a fourth diameter that is greater than the third diameter, and wherein the first body member has at least one opening into said annular slot through a wall portion of said first body member.
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Electronics equipment mount comprising:
- a main body defined by:
- a first body member having an open interior and an upper end with an opening into the open interior, said opening defining a first diameter;
- a second body member;
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- means for connecting the first body member to the second body member so that said first and second body members are movable relative to one another such that the second body member may be moved toward and away from said first body member;
- a swivel member having a ball portion in the open interior of the first body member and an arm extending from said ball portion through the opening in the upper end of the first body member, said swivel member movable relative to said main body and the ball having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter;
- compression means for compressing said swivel member between said first body member and said second body member;
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- stop means for selectively preventing disassembly of said first body member from said second body member, and allowing disassembly of said first body member from said second body member, said stop means comprising a pin extending into a bore in said second body member and having an outer end residing in an annular slot formed in said first body member;
- wherein the open interior of the first body member has a third diameter that is equal to the diameter of the opening into a lower end of said first body member, and wherein the annular slot in the first body member defines a fourth diameter that is greater than the third diameter, and wherein the first body member has at least one opening into said annular slot through a wall portion of said first body member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.