Floor stand mounted mirror

Claim 1

A floor stand mounted mirror construction, said construction including an upright standard having upper and lower relatively telescoped and slidably adjustable end portions, the lower end of the lower end portion including a horizontally enlarged floor engaging base, retention means operatively connected between the upper and lower end portions for releasably preventing downward movement of said upper end portion relative to said lower end portion from said selected extended positions of said upper end portion relative to said lower end portion, a support frame, means mounting said support frame on the upper end portion of said standard for angular adjustment about an upstanding axis relative to said standard, a mirror mounting frame supported from said support frame for angular displacement about a horizontal axis, said mirror mounting frame including at least one mirror element thereof generally paralleling the axis of angular adjustment of said mirror mounting frame relative to said support frame, said upper end portion being cylindrical, said retention means including longitudinally spaced downwardly inclined and facing ratchet teeth spaced longitudinally along one side, only, of said upper end portion, said lower end portion being tubular and having said upper end portion rotatably and telescopingly received therein, said retention means further including a pawl supported from one wall portion of said lower end portion for guided oscillation generally radially of said wall portion between a first inner position engaged with said teeth when said one side and wall portion are registered and a second outer position retracted outwardly from said teeth, means operatively connected between said pawl and lower end portion yieldingly biasing said pawl toward said first position, said pawl and lower end portion including coacting structure operative to selectively releasably lock said pawl in said first and second positions, said upper end portion being rotatable relative to said lower end portion to angularly displace said one side out of registry with said one wall portion, said upper end portion, exclusive of said one side being smooth, whereby when said one side is angularly displaced out of registry with said one wall portion said upper end portion may be longitudinally shifted, in either an up or down direction, relative to said lower end portion even when said pawl is yieldingly biased into engagement with said upper end portion.