Patent ID: 8390527
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. A portable satellite dish antenna system having a base portion and a lid portion, said base and lid portions respectively having interior and exterior sides extending about a first axis, said lid portion being selectively positionable relative to said base portion in a first position with the interior side of the lid portion facing and abutting the interior side of the base portion and in an inverted, second position with the exterior side of said lid portion facing and abutting the interior side of the base portion, said system having a satellite dish antenna mounted to said lid portion adjacent the interior side thereof for pivotal movement relative to the interior side of the lid portion about a second axis spaced from and substantially perpendicular to said first axis between at least a retracted position and a deployed position, said satellite dish antenna in said retracted position extending substantially perpendicular to said first axis adjacent the interior side of said lid portion and in said deployed position extending substantially in a plane at an angle substantially between zero and 90 degrees relative to a horizontal plane containing said second axis, said interior side of said base portion and said exterior side of said lid portion having mating bearing surfaces respectively extending substantial about said first axis wherein the bearing surface of said lid portion in said inverted, second position abuts and mates with the bearing surface of said base portion, said lid portion being manually and slidably rotatable about said first axis relative to said base portion with said bearing surfaces mating and abutting each other.