Supports – Easel; book – copy or music score holder – Copyholder with writing machine engaging means
Reexamination Certificate
1994-12-27
2001-09-11
Berger, Derek J. (Department: 3632)
Supports
Easel; book, copy or music score holder
Copyholder with writing machine engaging means
C040S658000, C248S451000, C248S918000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06286800
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND: FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention relates to a holder of paper notes and the like which may be attached to the lateral side or topside of a CRT computer monitor or other flat surface to serve as a retainer to display and store notes and the like so that the user of the device may easily insert paper into the holder and make ready reference to the information on the paper and then easily remove the paper after the use is completed.
BACKGROUND: DISCUSSION OF PRIOR ART
Many office workers spend a considerable amount of time using small paper notes, messages, memos etc. There is often a tendency for numerous of these notes to be present simultaneously and create desktop clutter and disorganization for the office worker. Millions of office personnel use computer monitors of the cathode ray tube (CRT) type at their workstations. The present invention takes the flat unused surfaces on the topside and lateral side of CRT computer monitors and equips them with a device to hold and display the numerous small paper notes and memos that otherwise tend to create clutter and disorganization on desktop surfaces. Heretofore, no one has utilized the elongate flat unused areas on the lateral sides and topside of a computer monitor with a correspondingly elongate flat surface mounted note holder with low profile lines and able to releasably hold and display a plurality of small paper notes adjacent to each other so that the user can individually manipulate one note without disturbing other notes adjacently held.
There are a number of copy holding devices for use on computer monitors. Most of these types are of the nature of an arm or planar structure which protrude far from the perimeter from the monitor to form a rigid platform or structure to brace the paper and then to clamp the paper with a clamping devices such as a spring clip or a gravity activated roller. This type of device is common and useful for holding standard 8½″×11″ office paper. This type of device is not useful for holding a multiplicity of smaller paper notes for simultaneous visual display. For example, releasing the spring clip will release all the notes instead of just one. Gravity activated rollers are similarly cumbersome when trying to individually segregate and manipulate one of a number of small notes.
There are a number of elongate resilient note holders with some similarity to the present invention. All are lacking two important features of the present invention. They are all designed to be mounted to an exterior surface on the backside of the holder which is a surface parallel to the plane at which the paper is held. This mounting surface is on the wall of the holder opposite and substantially parallel to the gripping or bearing surface wall. As a result, these devices are not able to be used on the topside or lateral side of a computer monitor. Second, there is only one groove for receiving paper. Thus, after the length of the single groove is used, additional notes can only be held by bunching them with other notes, often unrelated, instead of having another groove along the length of the channel to individually hold and manipulate the note.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,010,517 by Odd B. Kapstad issued Mar. 8, 1977 represents an elongate, rigid channel with a leaf spring which cooperates with a shoulder on one wall member to anchor the sheet in the cavity. This design, like all other elongate resilient holders, only has a single groove to hold paper. U.S. Pat. No. 4,629,075 by James E. Hutten issued Dec. 16, 1986 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,773,545 by Graham R. Jones issued Sep. 27, 1988 have resilient members with similar geometry to Kapstad's leaf spring design, that is, they form only one groove for the insertion of paper. U.S. Pat. No. 5,251,766 by James A Barry issued Oct. 12, 1993, represents an elongate sheet material holder with a brush strip instead of a sheet-like resilient member as used by Kapstad, Hutten, and Jones.
All of the above resilient designs anchor the resilient member from a wall parallel to the bearing wall where the paper note is clamped by the resilient member. Kapstad, Hutten, Jones, and Barry all mount to an exterior surface at an angle that is substantially parallel and not at a 90 degree angle to the paper being held.
OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES
Accordingly, several of the objects and advantages of our sheet material holder are:
(a) to provide an elongate note holder that mounts to the flat surfaces on the lateral side and/or top side of a CRT computer monitor.
(b) to provide a note holder low in profile and matches the contour of a CRT computer monitor and does not protrude excessively beyond the side perimeter.
(c) to provide a note holder that easily and conveniently holds one or more paper notes, memos, or cards in a vertical plane that are quickly and easily inserted and securely held for display and reference for the user and then easily removed when the use is completed without disturbing notes adjacently held.
(d) to provide a note holder where the resilient member is attached to the base wall which is substantially perpindicular to the bearing wall where the note is held.
(e) to provide a note holder with one or more an arched resilient members across the elongate open side end of the holder which creates a multiplicity of holding grooves and thus multiplies the number of individual small paper notes that can be individually segregated and manipulated without disturbing adjacent notes or requiring bunching together a multiplicity of unrelated notes after the length of the first groove has been filled.
(f) to provide a note holder that is made of transparent plastic so that writing on the edge region of the paper can be seen inside the note holder.
(g) to provide a note holder that is inexpensive to manufacture and is affordable to the public. Because of the simplicity of the design, this invention can be manufactured with a minimal of manufacturing steps. All or most of the invention can be made of plastic that is readily available. Material and labor costs will be low per unit thus enabling this note holder to be very affordable to the public.
Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.
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Bliss Khathrinah Russ
Junius Tristan P.
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