U.S. patent number 3,797,717 [Application Number 05/251,688] was granted by the patent office on 1974-03-19 for stethoscope receptacle.
Invention is credited to Ronald J. Collins.
United States Patent |
3,797,717 |
Collins |
March 19, 1974 |
STETHOSCOPE RECEPTACLE
Abstract
A receptacle to receive and retain therein the chest piece of a
stethoscope comprising a supporting wall, a front wall carried by
said supporting wall forming a pocket therewith, said front wall
having a downwardly extending open ended slot therein centrally
thereof, a substantially rigid bendable plate member adjacent edge
portions of said slot and being laminated into said front wall and
a rearward plate-like hanger carried by said supporting wall for
insertion as into a pocket.
Inventors: |
Collins; Ronald J. (Golden
Valley, MN) |
Family
ID: |
22952993 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/251,688 |
Filed: |
May 9, 1972 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
224/231; 224/230;
24/3.5 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A45F
5/02 (20130101); A45C 11/00 (20130101); Y10T
24/1376 (20150115) |
Current International
Class: |
A45F
5/02 (20060101); A45F 5/00 (20060101); A45C
11/00 (20060101); A45c 011/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;224/5H,5C,5R,5A,5T,25R,26R,26B,2B ;128/2.5S ;351/157
;24/3H,3C,3B,3F,3G,11CT,11HC |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Foreign Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Sheridan; Robert G.
Assistant Examiner: Forsberg; Jerold M.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Reif and Gregory
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A receptacle to accommodate the projecting portion of the chest
piece of a stethoscope, having in combination
a rear wall portion,
a front wall portion carried by said rear wall portion and
partially underlying the same and forming a pocket therewith,
said front wall portion having a vertical rectangular upper open
ended slot to accommodate the projecting portion of said chest
piece,
said receptacle being formed of a flexible material,
a substantially rigid U-shaped frame member extending about the
side and bottom wall portions of said slot, and
a supporting flap carried by said rear wall portion insertable into
a pocket for attachment to an operator's clothing.
Description
SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention herein relates to a receptacle particularly adapted
to hold the chest piece of a stethoscope.
It is the common practice of the person using a stethoscope, such
as a medical docotr, to suspend the stethoscope by its binaurals
from his neck. Thus as the doctor examines his patients and moves
about, the stethoscope is in a dangling position swinging outwardly
as he bends forwardly.
There does not appear to be any known receptacle particularly
adapted conveniently to receive and hold a stethoscope upon the
person of the user.
It is an object of this invention therefore to provide a receptacle
to receive and to hold the chest piece of a stethoscope to prevent
the same from dangling and from swinging while the binaurals are
secured to the neck of the user.
It is another object of this invention to provide a receptacle
which is particularly arranged and constructed to receive and hold
the chest piece of a stethoscope and to accommodate the projecting
portions of said chest piece having the binaurals connected
thereto.
It is also an object of this invention to provide a receptacle for
the chest piece of a stethoscope which is adapted to readily
receive said chest piece without the need of the user to first
manually open or expand the receptacle for the insertion of the
chest piece therein.
It is also an object of the invention herein to provide a
receptacle of the type indicated herein which may be secured
readily to the person of the user.
More generally stated, the invention herein comprises a receptacle
formed as a pocket consisting of a rear wall, a front wall integral
with said rear wall and of lesser height, said front wall having a
vertically disposed open ended slot therein to accommodate the
projecting portions of the chest piece of a stethoscope and to
provide a receptacle for the remainder of said chest piece, said
receptacle having a hanger portion carried by said rear wall as for
insertion into a shirt or coat pocket.
These and other objects and advantages of the invention will be set
forth in the following description made in connection with the
accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to
similar parts throughout the several views and in which:
FIG. 1 is a broken view showing the device herein in an operating
position;
FIG. 2 is a view in front elevation with some portions thereof in
dotted line;
FIG. 3 is a view in side elevation with a portion thereof in dotted
line;
FIG. 4 is a view in vertical section taken on line 4--4 of FIG. 2
as indicated;
FIG. 5 is a view in front elevation of a portion of the device
herein; and
FIG. 6 is a view in front elevation on a reduced scale showing a
modification.
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring to the drawings, the stethoscope holding device
comprising the subject matter of the invention herein is formed as
a receptacle 10 and is particularly arranged and adapted to receive
the chest piece of a stethoscope. Said receptacle is preferably
formed of a tough flexible plastic material, the various portions
of which may be secured together as by fusing or welding which is
readily accomplished as by the application of heat in connection
with conventional equipment.
Said receptacle 10 as here shown has a rear wall 12 of somewhat
lesser width than a shirt pocket and overlying the lower front
portion thereof is a front wall 14. Said front wall has centrally
transversely thereof a downwardly extending open ended slot 16,
said slot being of sufficient width to accommodate the forwardly
projecting portion 50 of the chest piece 51 of a common type of
stethoscope 52. To stiffen edge portions of said slot, there is
here shown disposed adjacent the sides and bottom thereof a
U-shaped plate member 19 formed of a rigid bendable material such
as of metal. Said plate member 19 preferably will be laminated
within said front wall to be integral therewith and to be wholly
contained therein.
Said front wall 14 and said rear wall 12 form a receptacle or
pocket 20 therebetween into which the chest piece 51 of said
stethoscope is disposed.
To facilitate the insertion of said chest piece 51 into said pocket
20, the upper corner portions 17 and 18 of said slot and the
adjacent portions of said plate member 19 are curved outwardly
somewhat whereby said chest piece upon engagement and being
disposed between said outwardly curved corner or flap portions is
guided into and readily enters said pocket 20, as indicated in
FIGS. 3 and 4.
Said device 10 in the preferred embodiment here illustrated is
shown depending from a pocket-like supporting member 23 of a size
which may be inserted as into a shirt pocket comprising a wall 24
and a overlying wall 25 of a lesser height, said overlying wall
being secured to be integral with said wall about the edge portion
thereof as by fusing.
The wall 12 is secured along its upper edge 13 to the upper edge
portion 27 of said wall 25. Thus the wall 12 is shown suspended
from said wall 25 and as illustrated in FIG. 1, the member 23 in a
supporting position is disposed into said pocket 26.
With the chest piece of said stethoscope disposed into said pocket
20, the binaurals 53 of said stethoscope are shown in FIG. 1, in a
holding position about the neck of the operator A.
A modification of said device 10 is shown in FIG. 6 indicated by
the reference numeral 60 and in which parts previously described
are indicated by like reference characters. Said device 60
comprises only the walls 12 and 14 and the pocket 20 therebetween
with said wall 14 having the slot 16 therein. A bar pin 62 is
provided at the upper portion of said wall 12.
Said pin will extend through said wall in a conventional manner
having its tongue portion and clasp, not here shown, on the rear
side thereof for pinning said device to a garment worn by the user.
The device 60 may be otherwise secured.
The chest piece is nicely held in stationary position within said
pocket 20 while not in use.
It will be of course understood that various changes may be made in
the form, details, arrangement and proportions of the parts without
departing from the scope of the invention herein which, generally
stated, consists in an apparatus capable of carrying out the
objects above set forth, in the parts and combinations of parts
disclosed and defined in the appended claims.
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