Assembly for storing and deploying for use a handheld digital device
OwnerDonald Lee Rowleyinventor
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Abstract
An assembly for storing and deploying for use a hand held digital device, the assembly incorporating a case adapted for nestingly receiving the hand held digital device; a first pin and socket fastener having upper and lower halves, the upper half being fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the case; a flexible lanyard; a pair of loops interconnecting the flexible lanyard and the first pin and socket fastener's lower half; a base; a second pin and socket fastener; and a hinge mount interconnecting the second pin and socket fastener and the base; the first pin and socket fastener's socket being adapted to function as the second pin and socket fastener's pin.
Claims9
An assembly for storing and deploying for use a hand held digital device, the hand held digital device having upper and lower ends and having front and back sides, the assembly comprising:
- (a) a case having a lower end, the case being adapted for nestingly receiving the hand held digital device;
- (b) a first pin and socket fastener having a pin receiving opening and comprising a spring hook and hook edge combination, said fastener having upper and lower halves, said upper half being fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the case;
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- (c) a flexible lanyard interconnect with the first pin and socket fastener's lower half;
- wherein, upon the case's nesting receipt of the hand held digital device, the case's lower end underlies said device's lower end;
- wherein the first pin and socket fastener's upper half is positioned at the case's lower end;
- wherein, upon the fastening of the first pin and socket fastener, the spring hook and hook ledge combination resists unfastening of said fastener;
- wherein the socket is further opened by a latch release port having a lower edge or having an upper edge, the spring hook and hook ledge combination's hook ledge comprising said lower or upper edge;
- and further comprising a base having upper and lower sides, and a second pin and socket fastener having upper and lower ends and having front and back sides, the second pin and socket fastener being mounted over the base, the second pin and socket fastener's pin comprising the first pin and socket fastener's socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.