Flip chart

Details Flip chart Flip chart

1995-12-05

1997-12-16

Braun, Leslie A.

Supports

Easel; book, copy or music score holder

With article gripping means

2481251, A47B 9704

Patent

active

056975953

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a flip chart with a panel which is held on a vertical guide and can be smoothly adjusted vertically which serves as a writing board or a clipboard for single and multiple pages.
German published, unexamined patent application DE-OS 42 21 637 discloses a flip chart embodied in this way, which constitutes a stand and in which the panel is supported so it can slide vertically as a vertical guide on a stand which is embodied like a tripod.
Based on this prior art, the object is to create a variable flip chart, embodied as a mobile stand and a hangable chalkboard-like panel, which is easy to convert into the respective functions, which is convenient to adjust both vertically and laterally, and which can be folded up in a space-saving manner.
This object is attained according to the invention in that the vertical guide is constituted by a central column which is supported on a rolling base and which can be detached along with the panel from the rolling base and can be suspended on a wall rail by means of rollers and can be slid laterally with the panel and additionally holds the panel so that it can slide vertically.
Another preferred embodiment form is to make the panel on the column detachable and to hang it so that it can slide laterally on a wall rail by means of rollers.
The flip chart according to the invention is composed of an upright column which is carried on a rolling base and can be easily tilted back and up, and a panel which can smoothly slide in a limited vertical range on this column and which on the one hand holds single and multiple pages with a clamp rail on the top and on the other hand can be embodied as a writing board.
This flip chart with a rolling base on the one hand constitutes a mobile stand with which the user can conveniently adjust the panel to the respectively desired vertical position and with which the observer can get a good view of the panel.
Furthermore, the column is detachably fastened to a bar piece of the rolling base in an advantageous way so that the column with the panel can be detached from the rolling base and used as a wall flip chart; on the back of the column, rollers on a rail are provided for this purpose, with which the column with the panel can be suspended from a horizontal wall rail so that the column with the panel can then slide horizontally and the panel can slide vertically on the column.
In another advantageous embodiment, the panel can be detached from the column and, using rollers on its back, can be suspended on a wall rail so that the panel alone can be slid laterally on this wall rail.
This embodiment of the flip chart can be used in various ways and can alternatively be used according to the respective conditions.
In addition, this detachable embodiment of column and rolling base as well as panel and column permits the flip chart to fold up in a space-saving way for transport to each site where it is to be used.
The panel is supported on the column with convenient sliding or rolling guides so that it can smoothly slide vertically and a cable pull with a counterweight or a gas spring is inserted between column and panel to balance the weight, which permits the user to slide it vertically in an easy and energy-saving manner.
In addition, the ease with which the panel slides vertically can be varied using adjustable clamping means.
Furthermore, a cantilevered arm with two support pins which can be adjusted horizontally and vertically can be fixed to the column in a detachable and/or a vertically adjustable way so that when the column has no panel, a board can be placed on these support pins by means of which the flip chart can be used as an easel or vertically adjustable tripod.
The drawings show an exemplary embodiment of the invention, which is explained below.
FIG. 1 shows a perspective of a flip chart embodied as a stand, which is constituted by a central, upright column which is carried by a rolling base and a panel held on it which can slide vertically,
FIG. 2 shows a front view of the flip chart with a column which can

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patent: 2959886 (1960-11-01), Lopez
patent: 3809354 (1974-05-01), Phifer
patent: 3980267 (1976-09-01), Palmer
patent: 4456286 (1984-06-01), Jamar

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