Patent ID: 6427607
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: A47B,A47G

Abstract:
A self-feeding device comprisingan upper frame, a lower frame, an upper frame cut-out, a lower frame cut-out, two scissors supports, a cup holder upper portion, a cup holder lower portion, a locking bracket upper portion, and a locking bracket lower portion, said upper frame possessing two upper slide cuts on opposite sides of said upper frame, said upper slide cuts running the length of said upper frame and possessing a plurality of dimple cuts along their length, said lower frame possessing two lower slide cuts on opposite sides of said lower frame, said lower slide cuts running the length of said lower frame and possessing a plurality of dimple cuts along their length, said dimple cuts roughly semi-circular in shape and large enough to accept the diameter of positioning brads, each of the two scissor supports comprised of two scissor support arms, said scissor support arms of each scissors support connected rotatably to each other at the center of their lengths, said positioning brads attached fixedly to each end of each scissor support arm, said positioning brads introduced into the upper and lower slide cuts on each side of said upper and lower frames, one scissors support on each side of the device, said positioning brads the means by which said upper frame and said lower frame are positioned apart from each other, the procedure for which is to slide said positioning brads down said upper slide cuts and said lower slide cuts while simultaneously rotating said scissor support arms around the centers of their lengths, and having selected a desired separation distance between said upper frame and said lower frame, slide said positioning brads into the appropriate dimple cuts in each of said upper slide cuts and lower slide cuts, said upper frame possessing an upper frame cut-out placed on one end of said upper frame and capable of fitting to a human arm, said lower frame possessing a lower frame cut-out the same shape and on the same end of the device as said upper frame cut-out, a cup holder upper portion attached fixedly to said upper frame on the side of the device opposite said upper portion cut-out, a cup holder lower portion attached fixedly to said lower frame on the side of said device opposite to said lower portion cut-out, a locking bracket upper portion attached fixedly to said upper frame on the same side of said device as said cup holder upper portion, a locking bracket lower portion attached fixedly to said lower frame on the same side of said device as said cup holder lower portion, said locking bracket lower and upper portions positioned such that when said device is closed and said upper frame and lower frame are in contact, said locking bracket lower and upper portions can be locked to each other.