Patent ID: 6073901
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: B60R,H04M

Abstract:
A supporting device for supporting an object, particularly a telephone in a vehicle, comprising a base body, a pair of clamping wall structures supported on said base body and operable to clamp said object therebetween, at least one of said clamping wall structures being movable and guided for movement thereof into and from clamping relationship with the other clamping wall structure, and retaining means for retaining said at least one clamping wall structure in the clamping position to which it is moved, said retaining means comprising first restraining means disposed on said at least one clamping wall structure, and resilient finger elements forming second restraining means mounted on said base body and coacting with said first restraining means in a manner such as to exert upon said at least one clamping wall structure a restraining force permitting manual movement of the latter but which restraining force exceeds the force exerted on the clamping wall structures by the object clamped therebetween.