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  Holding device adapted to be attached to a building wall for holding objects or to be gripped by a personUSPTO Application #: 20080093518Title: Holding device adapted to be attached to a building wall for holding objects or to be gripped by a person Abstract: A holding device is designed to be attached to a building wall, and in particular in a bathroom, using a suction means having at least one suction head with a sucker disk and an actuating means for the sucker disk so that the suction means may be attached to and detached from the building wall manually on operation of the actuating means. The suction means bears a bearing unit able to be pivoted about a pivot axis parallel to the building wall. The bearing unit bears a support bar extending perpendicularly to the pivot axis for holding objects or to be grasped by persons (end of abstract) Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C. - Kalamazoo, MI, US Inventor: Eckart Roth USPTO Applicaton #: 20080093518 - Class: 248207 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080093518. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001]The invention relates to a holding device adapted to be attached to a building wall and in particular in a bathroom, comprising an attachment means able to be attached to the building wall and a support bar for holding objects or to be gripped by persons, and which, when the attachment means is attached to the building wall extends in a position of use into the space delimited by the building wall. THE PRIOR ART [0002]Such holding device are for example employed to hold a curtain, when a seated person is to be given a shower and washed by another person. The curtain is located generally at hip level between the two persons and is intended to keep the clothing of the one person from being splashed. Furthermore the seated elderly or disabled person may grasp the support bar to stand up. [0003]The known holding devices are permanently secured to the building wall. The result of this is that after use the support bar may be disadvantageously placed having regard to on local features or the height of the persons. Moreover, the support bar extending into the room may be an obstruction when not in use. The support bar itself might even be in the way if it is able to be pivoted to the side. In bathrooms and the like space is normally at a premium so that folding the bar to the side is frequently not possible. SHORT SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0004]One object of the invention is accordingly to devise a holding device of the type initially mentioned which is adaptable to different functions and when not in use is not an obstruction. [0005]In order to achieve these and/or other objects appearing from the present specification, claims and drawings, in,the present invention the attachment means comprises a suction means with at least one suction head with a sucker disk and an actuating means for the sucker disk so that the sucker disk and with it the associated suction head may be manually caused to suck firmly on the building wall and be released from it, and the suction means carries a bearing unit able to be pivoted about a pivot axis parallel to the building wall, such bearing unit holding the support bar extending perpendicularly to the pivot axis. [0006]A precondition for the attachment of the holding device in accordance with the invention is a flat wall. This condition will be fulfilled in a bathroom which is normally tiled and the suction means may be mounted on the tiles at any desired position for adaptation to different uses, different spatial circumstances and persons of different height. The position of the holding device may be reset whenever required without any difficulty. It is merely necessary to operate the actuating means by hand. [0007]Since the support bar may be pivoted at the bearing unit the grip or support bar may be shifted toward the wall into a non-use position out of the way. In this respect the lack of space may be taken into account by moving the holding device out of the way against the wall. [0008]Furthermore the pivot axis does not need to be vertically aligned. The suction means may be in fact positioned at any angle on the building wall so that the pivot axis may also be set horizontally or at any desired angular position betwixt horizontal and vertical. [0009]It will be clear that the support bar may also be employed to hold any other desired objects, which are to be pivoted toward or away from a person when standing, seated or prone. In this case as well the holding device can be set at the respectively most convenient position on the building wall. [0010]The multiplicity of possible applications furthermore includes the possibility of designing the support bar to be grasped by a person and providing it with a handle means. For instance, the suction means may be so positioned on the wall that the support bar extends toward a seated person, who may then grasp the handle means of the support bar and pull himself or herself upward to stand up. [0011]Further useful developments of the invention are defined in the claims. [0012]Further advantageous developments and convenient forms of the invention will be understood from the following detailed descriptive disclosure of embodiments thereof in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. LIST OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE FIGURES [0013]FIG. 1 shows a person standing in a room with beside a holding device in accordance with the invention held on the wall, the support bar thereof supporting a curtain which is omitted to render the drawing more straightforward, and being pivoted upward into a non-use position against the wall. [0014]FIG. 2 shows the arrangement of FIG. 1 with the support bar pivoted into its position of use projecting away from the wall. [0015]FIG. 3 shows an arrangement differing from that of FIG. 1 in that the holding device has assumed a position pivoted through 90 degree so that the pivot axis extends vertically and the support bar is pivoted to the side against the wall. [0016]FIG. 4 shows the same arrangement as in FIG. 3, the support bar being pivoted toward a seated person. [0017]FIG. 5 shows a different use in which the suction means is secured beside a person seated on a toilet bowl for example the support bar being provided with a handle means and being swung toward the person who may use the support bar to stand up, the bar being inserted in the other of two sockets in the bearing unit to that illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 4. [0018]FIG. 6 shows an arrangement similar to that of FIG. 5 in which however the holding device is secured to a wall opposite to a person. [0019]FIG. 7 shows the holding device used in FIGS. 1 through 6 in an oblique view, the partially cut away support bar being inserted into the same socket as in FIGS. 1 through 4. [0020]FIG. 8 shows the arrangement of FIG. 7 in plan looking in the direction as indicated by the arrow VIII of FIG. 7. Continue reading... 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