Combination of capo and pick holder and dispenser
View Patent ↗A combination of a guitar capo and a guitar pick holder and dispenser is configured so picks are available to the player when needed. The pick holder and dispenser has a generally rectangular recess as a receptacle to fit onto the hand grip or head of the capo upper handle, and a notch is provided at a lower end to fit onto the foot of the capo, at the base of the upper handle. The receptacle may have fins or ribs to accept and hold the hand grip or head.
1. In combination, a guitar capo mountable on a neck of a guitar and a guitar pick holder and dispenser removably mountable on said capo;
wherein said capo comprises an upper member and a lower member connected at a pivot to one another;
the upper member having an upper handle, a string press bar projecting therefrom, and including a contact pad adapted to contact a fret board on the neck of the guitar, and
the lower member being formed of a lower handle extending from said pivot so as to move rotatably toward and away from said upper handle, and a neck press bar extending from said pivot and aligned with said string press bar;
a spring configured to bias said lower handle away from said upper handle and to bias said neck press bar towards said string press bar, and
said upper member having a foot region between said upper handle and said string press bar;
wherein said guitar pick holder and dispenser is formed of an elongated body with a base wall and parallel side walls, with a notch formed at a lower end, and a rectangular recess formed on a back wall of the elongated body, said rectangular recess including a pair of parallel fins configured to accept and hold a head portion of said upper handle, and wherein the notch of said pick holder and dispenser lodges onto said foot region.
2. The combination of claim 1 , wherein said head portion of said upper handle is a loop portion formed at the end of the upper handle.
3. The combination of claim 1 , wherein two concave recesses are disposed at said foot portion.
4. The combination of claim 1 , wherein said pick holder is configured to hold at least three of said picks.
5. The combination of claim 1 , wherein said side walls of the pick holder each are spaced from said base wall to define a pair of slits to receive edges of said guitar picks.
6. The combination of claim 5 , wherein said slots are open at the upper end of the pick holder to permit the picks to be slid into and out of the pick holder.
7. The combination of claim 1 wherein one or more transverse recesses extending across the upper member at said foot region, and the notch of said pick holder and dispenser lodges onto said one or more transverse recesses.