Phonemate, Inc.

Adams Rite Manufacturing Co.

Alastair W Jarrett

David A Sharbaugh

Michinari Ueki

James W Oblak

Telephone answering device base unit

A telephone device for selective mounting on a substantially horizontal or substantially vertical surface includes a housing having a top panel, and a base portion which is adapted to be alternatively mounted on a substantially horizontal and vertical surface. The base portion includes a first base member fixed on the housing, and a wedge-shaped second base member removably coupleable to the first base member. The first base member has two mutually inclined surface portions which are inclined relative to each other and which intersect and meet at an angle A, each of the two mutually inclined surface portions has substantially the same dimensions, and the mutually inclined surface portions meet at an apex which faces away from the top panel of the housing. The wedge-shaped second base member selectively engages either one of the mutually inclined surface portions of the first base member so that a flat portion of the wedge-shaped second base member is adjacent to the other of the mutually inclined surface portions of the first base member, to thereby form a substantially flat, substantially continuous mounting surface with the other of the mutually inclined surface portions of the first base member.

Interchangeable base arrangement for wall mount/desk mount telephone

Combined telephone, telephone handset and telephone answering device

An electrical release door strike comprising a carrier frame; a strike bolt carried by the frame for pivoting when released, allowing door opening, the bolt adapted to receive and resist door opening force prior to the pivoting; structure carried by the frame to release the strike bolt for such pivoting, including first, second and third arms; the first arm movable from a first position blocking bolt pivoting to a second position allowing bolt pivoting to in turn allow the door opening, the second arm movable from a primary position in which it holds the first arm in the first position to a secondary position in which it allows the first arm movement to the second position, and the third arm movable from an initial position in which it holds the second arm in the primary position to a subsequent position in which it allows movement of the second arm to the secondary position; and additional structures including an element carried by the bolt and movable relative thereto to signal the presence of a door part adjacent the bolt.

Compact electric strike

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Fullerton, CA, United States of America

Alastair W Jarrett