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 handheld digital device, the assembly incorporating a case adapted for nestingly receiving the handheld digital device; a pin and socket combination 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 pin; a base; a socket; and a hinge mount interconnecting the socket and the base; the pin and socket combination's socket being slotted for passage of the lanyard.
Claims9
An assembly for storing and deploying for use a handheld digital device, the handheld digital device having upper and lower ends and having front and back sides, the assembly comprising:
- (a) a handheld digital device case having a back surface;
- (b) a pin and socket combination, said combination having an upper pin half and a lower socket half, said upper pin half being fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the handheld digital device case back surface;
- (c) a flexible lanyard;
- (d) a fastener interconnecting the flexible lanyard and the pin and socket combination's upper pin half;
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- (e) a base, the pin and socket combination's lower socket half being fixedly attached to the base.
An assembly for storing and deploying for use a handheld digital device, the handheld 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 handheld digital device;
- (b) a pin and socket combination, said combination's pin comprising a lanyard engaging loop, said combination having upper and lower halves wherein the upper half is fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the case;
- (c) a flexible lanyard comprising a distal end loop;
- (d) a fastener, said fastener comprising a combination of the pin's lanyard engaging loop and the lanyard's distal end loop, wherein said fastener interconnects the flexible lanyard and the pin and socket combination's upper half;
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- (e) a base, the pin and socket combination's lower socket half being fixedly attached to the base;
- wherein the pin and socket combination's socket opens upwardly for pin receipt, and further comprising a lanyard passage slot, said slot further opening said socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.