Mounting for mobile communications antenna

摘要

An apparatus for mounting a mobile transmitting and receiving antenna to an automobile windshield or rear window is disclosed. The antenna is screwed into a socket of an antenna mount and is secured with a finger tightened lock nut. Confronting friction surfaces of the lock nut and socket are of a frusto-conical configuration. The lock nut generates a compression friction fit with the socket and resists vibration forces from vehicle movement, thereby preventing the antenna from disengaging from the socket. The antenna may be easily removed when desired by finger loosening the lock nut. The socket is attached to the base of the mount by two opposing screws. Each screw is oriented whereby when a flex force due to wind or otherwise is exerted on the antenna and a subsequent torque is transmitted to the base of the mount one of these screws will always resist a torque about an axis defined by these screws. The antenna is thereby maintained in a desired orientation by the arrangement of these opposing screws.