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 Overhead support system for TV monitors

Details
Inventors: Gerke, David B.; MacDonald, Michael;
Assignee: Inter-Link Communciations Inc. (Calgary, CA)
Primary Examiner: Foss; J. Franklin
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Berman, Aisenberg & Platt

An overhead support system for TV monitors comprising a shoe releasably and slidably insertable into seated position into a pocket in an upper portion of the monitor housing. The shoe carries electrical contacts to mateably engage with corresponding electrical contacts for the monitor when in seated position. Conductor cables are embedded in the shoe and extend from the electrical contacts through a pipe, one end of which is secured to the shoe and the other end of which passes through shock absorbing material supported on an overhead support frame to threadably engage an anchor means supported on the shock absorbing material. This system securely supports such monitors in overhead locations such as on buses.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In accordance with the present invention there is provided an overhead support system for TV monitors for use on buses and the like, comprising a shoe which carries cable means for the TV monitor.
The cable means are electrically associated with an electrical contact means exposed on an outer surface of the shoe.
The shoe has sides provided with a guide and support means positioned to mateably slide in cooperating guide and support means in the upper part of a TV monitor housing, into seated position with the shoe electrical contact means electrically engaging corresponding electrical contact means on the TV monitor housing.
A support in the form of a pipe is secured at one end to and upwardly extends from the shoe.
The shoe cable means extends through the pipe.
The pipe is to extend through an aperture in an overhead support frame.
A shock absorbing means is supported on the overhead support frame and also has an aperture through which the pipe is to extend.
An anchor sits on the shock absorbing means and releasably engages the other end of the pipe to hold the shoe firmly in position on the overhead support frame.
In a preferred embodiment the shoe is provided with a lock mechanism to cooperate with a lock mechanism on the TV monitor housing to releasably secure the shoe in seated position with respect to the TV monitor housing and prevent disengagement of the TV monitor from the shoe when the lock mechanism is in locked position.
The invention also relates to a TV monitor in combination with this type of overhead support system.
The TV monitor has a housing which is modified, with respect to a conventional TV monitor housing, by having a pocket in its upper portion to releasably receive the shoe.
The pocket has a guide and support to cooperate with those of the shoe and an end with electrical contact means to electrically engage the electrical contact means on the shoe when the shoe is in seated position in the pocket.
The overhead support system in accordance with the present invention is relatively easy to install for example on the overhead luggage rack of a bus


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