Supports – Easel; book – copy or music score holder – With article gripping means
Patent
1994-10-27
1996-02-20
Foss, J. Franklin
Supports
Easel; book, copy or music score holder
With article gripping means
248456, 248465, A47B 9704
Patent
active
054922992
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a bookstand for a book. The bookstand comprises a back panel having a top, a bottom, a front side against which a book can rest and a back side. Projecting outwardly from substantially the bottom of the back panel is a lip panel upon which a book can be placed. The lip panel has projectable therefrom a plurality of page retainers for maintaining interfacing book pages open, with each page retainers having a distal end movable toward the back panel. Such movement of one page retainers is independent of movement of another page retainers, thereby allowing positioning of one page retainers near one interfacing page of an open book and positioning of another page retainers near the other interfacing facing page. In a preferred embodiment, each page retainers comprises a rod having a distal end and a proximal end. The proximal end of the rod is hingedly connected to the lip panel in a plane substantially perpendicular to the back panel to thereby rotate on the hinge for movement of the distal end of the rod toward the back panel.
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Cleveland John P.
Thermos Nicholas
Foss J. Franklin
Naber Thomas C.
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