Portable-telephone mounting bracket

Claim 1

A portable-telephone mounting bracket for installation in vehicles, said bracket having an elongated essentially upright configuration and including one or more bends at lateral bend lines and being made of a flat sheet-like material, said bracket including a flat intermediate part with front and rear faces (5) from which an upper arm part (6) and a lower arm part (7), each extend rearwardly from a different said lateral bend line, the terminal ends (8, 9) of respective arm parts being beveled and having lateral shapes providing attachment appendages adapted to be fitted into and thereby secured in associated slots in the vehicle instrument panel, such as in the air intake located on the instrument panel, so that the mounting bracket can be secured to the vehicle instrument panel by means of said ends, and the intermediate flat part of said mounting bracket providing support for the receiver-cradle of a portable telephone, and wherein lateral grooves (13-15) are located in said sheet material at least adjacent said bends (2-4) and extending at least partially along the length of said bends; said grooves (13-15) having a depth which equals at least one-quarter the thickness of the sheet-like material to thereby provide weakened bend lines which enable said bend lines to function as hinges between said intermediate flat part and parts of said upper and lower arm parts and permit bending between said intermediate part and said upper and lower arm parts when said bracket is subjected to abnormal forces in a direction from the front face toward the rear face of said bracket which will force the bracket parts to fold on said bend lines and move toward and upward relative to the vehicle panel resulting in a fail-safe release of said bracket and attachment appendages from said slots in said vehicle panel.