US 11,915,862 B2
Detachable magnet device
Jeffery M. Eliason, Shoreview, MN (US); Mitchell Porch, Grand Rapids, MI (US); Joseph Funk, St. Paul, MN (US); Braden J. Eliason, Minneapolis, MN (US); Benjamin J. Larsen, St. Paul, MN (US); David A. Melander, Saint Louis Park, MN (US); and Rebecca E. Wereley, Richfield, MN (US)
Assigned to Magnetic Mechanisms L.L.C, Shoreview, MN (US)
Filed by Magnetic Mechanisms L.L.C., Shoreview, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/895,464.
Application 17/895,464 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/176,486, filed on Feb. 16, 2021, granted, now 11,482,359.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/979,148, filed on Feb. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0415552 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H01F 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01F 7/0205 (2013.01) [H01F 7/0252 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for detachable attachment to a surface of a ferromagnetic object and for holding an item adjacent to the surface, the device comprising:
a base including a frame and a grip portion, the frame having a first end, a second end, a front side and a rear side, and comprising a first material, the grip portion coupled to the frame at the rear side of the frame, the grip portion having an outer surface configured to contact the surface of the ferromagnetic object, and comprising a second material;
a magnet-retaining portion having a first end and a second end, the second end pivotally connected to the frame at the frame second end;
a magnetic device connected to the magnet-retaining portion, the magnetic device having a first end, a second end and an outer surface;
a cover pivotally connected to the frame at the first end of the frame and covering a portion of the front side of the base, the cover including a lifter portion configured to contact the first end of the magnet-retaining portion and cause the first end of the magnet-retaining portion to pivot about the second end of the frame when the lifter portion is rotated, thereby moving the first end of the magnet-retaining portion and the first end of the magnetic device in a rear-to-front direction; and
a holding portion connected to the frame portion and configured to hold the item.