Supporting device for telephone instrument

Claim 1

A SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR A TELEPHONE INSTRUMENT, COMPRISING A MOUNTING ELEMENT, RESILIENT FASTENING MEANS FOR ATTACHING SAID ELEMENT YIELDABLY TO SAID INSTRUMENT, SAID ELEMENT HAVING STABILIZING MEANS, OPERATIVE WHEN THE ELEMENT IS THUS ATTACHED, FOR HOLDING THE LATTER AGAINST MATERIAL ANGULAR MOVEMENT FROM THE PRINCIPAL LONGITUDINAL PLANE OF SAID INSTRUMENT, AN ARM ELEMENT PIVOTED TO SAID MOUNTING ELEMENT FOR PIVOTING LATERALLY OF THE LATTER TOWARD EITHER SIDE OF SAID PLANE, AND PIVOT-CONTROL MEANS FOR LIMITING SUCH LATERAL PIVOTING AND FOR HOLDING SAID ARM ELEMENT IN ANY ONE OF PLURAL POSITIONS TO WHICH IT MAY THUS BE PIVOTED; SAID MOUNTING ELEMENT BEING BODILY SWINGABLE RELATIVELY TO SAID INSTRUMENT IN PARALLELISM WITH SAID PLANE AND HAVING A CAMMING PORTION ADAPTED TO SLIDE UPON AN ADJACENT SURFACE OF SAID INSTRUMENT DURING THE LATTER SWINGING MOVEMENT AND TO COACT WITH SAID INSTRUMENT AND SAID FASTENING MEANS TO HOLD SAID MOUNTING ELEMENT EITHER IN A POSITION CORRESPONDING TO A DORMANT POSITION OF SAID ARM ELEMENT OR IN A POSITION CORRESPONDING TO A FIRST EXTENDED POSITION OF SAID ARM ELEMENT.