Patent ID: 9737136
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: A47B,F16M,G02B

Claim:
1. An overhead support for a visual medium, the support enabling a viewer to view the medium from a supine position, the support configured for overhead suspension from a first cooperating anchor and a second cooperating anchor, the support comprising: a transparent support structure; a first upwardly projecting hanger and a second upwardly projecting hanger where both of said upwardly projecting hangers are contrapositioned, affixed to said support structure, and projecting upwardly in a substantially vertical orientation, and the first and second upwardly projecting hangers are u-shaped; only two retractable positioning mechanisms, which are continuously adjustable, each having a distal end and a proximal end, said distal ends each connected to one of the anchors, and said proximal ends each connected to one of said hangers, said positioning mechanisms having a substantially vertical orientation between said distal end and said proximal end; and, said positioning mechanisms each having a lock for fixing the height of said support structure above the viewer, said lock being releasable by lifting said support structure upward or pulling said support structure downward, wherein when said support structure is oriented in a first plane and said support structure is lifted upward, both of said two retractable positioning mechanisms at least partially retract and said support structure is raised to be oriented in a second plane substantially parallel to said first plane, and when said support structure is oriented in a second plane and said support structure is pulled downward, both of said two retractable positioning mechanisms at least partially extend and said support structure is lowered to be oriented in a first plane substantially parallel to said second plane, and wherein said positioning mechanisms are configured to retract and to raise said support structure to a variable height.