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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1998
Michael Brown, Orleans, CA;
Ernest R Dynie, Nepean, CA;
John I Johnson, Kinburn, CA;
Donald T Chadwick, Nepean, CA;
Nortel Networks Corporation, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
The angle of a desktop terminal such as a telephone can be easily adjusted with the combination of a stand and a tilt unit control device integrated within a lower surface of the terminal. The terminal is pivotally connected to the stand. The terminal is held at a particular angle by engagement of a tooth on the tilt unit control device, with a serration on a rear surface of the tilt unit of the stand. To change the angle of the terminal, the user depresses a handle of the tilt unit control device which pivots the tooth of the device away from the tilt unit thereby disengaging the tooth from the serration on the tilt unit. The user then pivots the terminal to the preferred angle and depresses the handle, thereby engaging the tooth with a different serration on the tilt unit.