Monthly Archives: October 2016

Muur

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The picture above shows a patent filed by Hugo Blomberg in 1968 and published in 1970. It is a so called wallbracket for standing telephones. More information can be found here. To my understanding this is the first patent for this kind of accessory. A rather strange looking phonestand I would say. Not sure if they were ever put into production.

Since 1968 a few more patents can be found. This is another one from Hugo Blomberg with more or less the same purpose, filed in 1976.

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More information on this wall-stand for telephone sets of standing handset type patent can be found here.  For some reason I do not have any connection with these kind of inventions. Nevertheless there was even a patent filed in 2013 for mobile phones…

The dutch word for wall is muur by the way.

Update 01/09/2022: Figure 4 of the first patent is a clear case of face pareidolia. Beaker must be based on this patent… 🙂 My hero!