Supports – Easel; book – copy or music score holder – Body supported
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-06
2001-08-07
King, Anita M. (Department: 3632)
Supports
Easel; book, copy or music score holder
Body supported
C005S639000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06270050
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a pillow carrying book holder or a book holder carried by a pillow which may readily rest on the lap of a user and easily hold a book in a desired reading position.
Book holders used for retaining and positioning a book for reading without requiring the reader to hold the book are well known. There are various designs and constructions which are positionable and rest upon a table or other flat surface. One known construction of this type comprises metal rods which connect together and have certain of the rods which fold to engage a book and to fold to a stored position. Another such construction illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 4,123,029 comprises a wooden face plate with a triangular support plate on the back and having a shelf on the front on which a book may rest, it having spring biased fingers to engage and hold the book.
Other constructions permit a book to be held by the reader while in a sitting or prone position. Examples of such book holders are illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,029,668; 2,481,107 and 4,356,991. However, each of these book holder are awkward to use and when used is relatively unstable and uncomfortable. Another apparatus which may be used to support a book and which may be used either resting on a table or positioned on the lap of a user is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 5,114,110, this structure being a board with a flexible support or base and an elastic cord for holding the book.
It is highly desirable and would be extremely useful if a book holder were constructed to rest comfortably on the lap of a user and yet be stable. It is know to provide a board in a stuffed bag forming a portable lap desk, see for example U.S. Pat. No. 4,537,646 . However, no such simple comfortable book holder is known to have been proposed in the prior art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Consequently, it is a primary object of the present invention to provide a book holder that may rest comfortably on the lap of a user while in a sitting or prone position.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a book holder that is connected to a pillow permitting the book holder to be disposed on the lap of a user with the pillow comfortably on the lap of the user.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a book holder in combination with a pillow, the book holder having a frame disposed within the interior of the pillow and having book engaging fingers disposed on the exterior of the pillow and biased toward the frame.
Accordingly, the present invention provides a pillow carrying book holder structure including a frame in the form of a board positioned within the pillow, the board supporting retraction mechanism which is connected to a pair of book engaging fingers, the fingers being externally of the pillow and biased by the retraction mechanism toward the frame. Thus, a book may be positioned on the pillow in juxtaposition with the board and held by the fingers as they are retracted toward the pillow and the frame. The pillow may be filled with conventional stuffing material and may include a freely movable particulate filling comprising a multiplicity of small balls or other particles such as used in a “bean bag” so that the pillow will conform to the lap of a user. Thus, the pillow mounted book holder may comfortably be positioned for use when the reader or user is sitting, resting or prone.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1928806 (1933-10-01), Barcalo
patent: 1934254 (1933-11-01), Barcalo
patent: 4537646 (1985-08-01), Hoyle
patent: 4771977 (1988-09-01), Larson
King Anita M.
Miller & Martin LLP
Ruderman Alan
Sy Holly N.
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