(under the class definition) Support comprising a device which includes means particularly adapted to receive a staff (i.e., a pole-like or rod-like member) and to support it in one or more attitudes relative to either (1) the device, (2) the surface or object upon which the device relies for its support, or (3) a principal plan (e.g., horizontal, etc.). The device may (1) be a stand or base, (2) include structure in the form of a ground insertable member, or (3) be a bracket. The staff receiving means usually is a distinct element such as a socket, cradle, ring, etc.; in rare instances, however, it may be an integral portion of the device. Typical examples of a staff are a fishing rod, a flagpole, a tree trunk and an umbrella stick. Included in this subclass (511) are structures involving the rather
peculiar arrangement wherein the device supports only part of the weight of the staff; i.e., the staff rests also, at some other point of its length, upon a surface or an object. Included are "stands" comprised of a plurality of individual, leg-like members which have no engagement with one another, and which achieve an operative relationship with one another only at such time as they are attached to an end of a staff for supporting it in an upright position.
(1) Note. The staff receiving means of this and the indented subclasses usually is of a "universal" nature; i.e., it will accommodate one pole-like or rod-like element about as well as another. Accordingly, a staff which includes structure peculiar to a particular art device, and with which structure the staff receiving must cooperate, usually presents a combination or sub-combination which is more properly classifiable with the art device. However, that statement is not intended to proscribe staff modifications where the modification has utility only in its cooperation with the staff receiving means, such as the tapering of the lower end of a tree trunk to better fit the socket of a staff receiving means, or the boring of a hole therein to receive a spike-like member of a staff receiving means, for example.
(2) Note. The existing cross references to other areas of this class of patents which appear as original documents in this and the indented subclasses, have not been screened to determine whether their placement is consistent with the concepts adopted herein of such terms as "stand" and "bracket".
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43, Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying,
21.2, for a holder, support, etc., for a fishing rod, which holder, support, etc., is particularly adapted to cooperate with a nonstaff-like structural feature of the rod. 116, Signals and Indicators,
173+, for the combination of a flag and a support particularly adapted for displaying the flag.
211, Supports: Racks,
60.1+, for a device which supports single or plural articles in a stored or nonuse position.
224, Package and Article Carriers,
200+, for body attached or supported article carriers which may be particularly adapted for supporting a staff, and subclasses 400+ (especially subclasses 309+, 313+, 412+, and 488+) for vehicle attached article carriers which may be particularly adapted for supporting a staff.
280, Land Vehicles,
170+, for vehicle attached devices in the form of a socket for receiving and holding a whip.
343, Communications: Radio Wave Antennas,
788+, for a support for an antenna, which antenna may be in the form of a staff.
403, Joints and Connections, appropriate subclasses for a mere connection of a staff to another element, which other element may be in the form of a support for the staff. 431, Combustion,
