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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1993
Alastair W Jarrett, Fullerton, CA (US);
PhoneMate, Inc., Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
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.