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Article: California Inventors Develop Retractable Spa Speaker System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 16, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Darrell Schmidt and Raymond Colin, both of Simi Valley, Calif., Francisco Hinojosa Jr. of Santa Paula, Calif., Michael D. Holtsnider of Moorpark, Calif., and Stephen L. Samuels of Ventura, Calif., have developed a retractable speaker system for spas.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spa speaker system is disclosed having a housing with a speaker mounted within it. The housing is movably mounted to a track with the housing extendible and retractable from the top of the track. A spring is arranged to urge the housing to extend from the top of the track. A latching mechanism is operable to hold the housing in its retracted position and is ...