Column and lever construction for a charactered telephone

Details Column and lever construction for a charactered telephone Column and lever construction for a charactered telephone

1976-11-19

1978-05-02

Claffy, Kathleen H.

Recording, communication, or information retrieval equipment

Computer, data processor equipment

179164, 179179, D14 53, H04M 102

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040876500

ABSTRACT:
A column mounts on a base housing and mounts a lever for pivotal movement between an "off-hook" and an "on-hook" position. A portion of the lever is an arm of a fanciful character which holds a telephone handset. The column attaches the character to it and the base housing. The lever has a collar in receipt of the column and an actuation tab from the collar for sliding contact with a nose of a finger of an actuator. The actuator transmits off-handset and on-handset signals to a hook switch in the base housing. A pivot bracket mounts the lever on the column diametrically opposite the finger and character arm and outwardly and away from the column. The lever moves through a comparatively small angle for a comparatively large displacement of the end of the lever represented by the arm of the character. A platform of the pivot bracket bears against laterally extending ribs of the column and attaches to the column by a fastener and hook-and-slot engagement.

REFERENCES:
patent: D225413 (1972-12-01), Scoggins
patent: 1083406 (1914-01-01), Knight et al.
patent: 1340863 (1920-05-01), Knight
patent: 1361628 (1920-12-01), Shailer
patent: 1388703 (1921-08-01), Gray
patent: 3745267 (1973-07-01), Tucker et al.
patent: 3773985 (1973-11-01), Tucker
C&P Telephone Brochure; "Design Line Phones"; Candlestick Design available before Jul. 1976.
The American Inventor; Apr. 1, 1904; p. 163.

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