Portable phone holder

Abstract

A phone holder using a pliant foam rubber-like material to grasp a portable phone upon insertion.

What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:  
     
         1 . A phone holder apparatus comprising an annual cylinder of a foam polymer material.  
     
     
         2 . An apparatus as described in  claim 1  comprising ribs disposed symmetrically about an exterior surface of said annular cylinder.  
     
     
         3 . An apparatus as described in  claim 2 , said ribs having a substantially hemispherical cross section.  
     
     
         4 . An apparatus as described in  claim 2  wherein said annular cylinder is approximately the outer diameter of an annular cup holder of a vehicle.  
     
     
         5 . An apparatus as described in  claim 1  further comprising an interior surface of said annular cylinder comprising a cam.  
     
     
         6 . An apparatus as described in  claim 5  wherein said annular surface has at least two sections having walls that have progressively reduced radius for radians of angle.  
     
     
         7 . An apparatus as described in  claim 6  further comprising at least 2 ribs disposed along an axis of said cylinder and disposed on an outer surface thereof.  
     
     
         8 . A method of operating a phone holder comprising the steps of: 
 inserting a polymer foam cylinder in a cup holder of a vehicle;    inserting a portable phone in said phone holder axially into said cylinder and engaging a grasping mechanism.    
     
     
         9 . A method as described in  claim 8  wherein said cylinder further comprises protrusions disposed upon an interior surface of said cylinder.  
     
     
         10 . A method as described in  claim 9  wherein said protrusions grasp said phone and said grasping mechanism comprises a press fit.  
     
     
         11 . A method as described in  claim 10  wherein said press fit comprises the deformation of said protrusions.  
     
     
         12 . A method as described in  claim 8  wherein said cylinder comprises at least two sections of decreasing radius walls disposed upon an interior surface.  
     
     
         13 . A method as described in  claim 12  wherein the step of engaging a grasping means comprises rotating said phone in a direction wherein said walls' diameter decreases.  
     
     
         14 . An apparatus as described in  claim 2  further comprising walls with sections of differing heights comprising protrusions for grasping a phone by deformation.  
     
     
         15 . An apparatus as described in  claim 14  wherein said phone can be grasped by insertion coaxially.  
     
     
         16 . An apparatus as described in  claim 14  wherein said phone can be grasped by insertion perpendicular to a main axis of said annular cylinder.