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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gunther B Niemann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Assignee:
Health Care Information Corp., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
248585 ; 24828831 ;
Abstract
A ball tilt joint permits a wired mounted unit, preferably a TV (monitor) to be rotated and tilted for viewing, without breaking wires. An axial hole through the ball stem allows electrical wires to be fed to the unit. The ball stem has limited rotation, due to stop screws. A ball socket carries the wired unit, and the socket can tilt about the ball center, but not rotate on the ball around the ball stem axis, because of a socket pin which extends into a slot machined into the ball. The pin is oriented radially towards the ball center, and everything is mounted to the end of an articulatable arm.