Flat foldable lectern and enclosed briefcase
OwnerAron Fischerinventor
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Abstract
A flat foldable carrying case with a closed interior space is unfoldable to yield a lectern. The lectern/carrying case is formed from a box as well as left, right, bottom, and top flaps. The box has four sides which are connected to a back side, each at a right angle thereto. Each side of the box is rotatably adjoined to a respective side flap. The bottom flap is foldable after the sometimes identically sized left and right flaps fold into the box. Then the top flap is foldable. In some cases, the bottom flap is only foldable towards the box after the left and right flags are folded due to a wider bottom flap compared to the side flaps. In a folded condition with enclosed interior space, the top flap is parallel to the back side of the box.
Claims12
A device flat foldable lectern formed from comprising:
- a box with back side, a right side, a left side, a top side, and a bottom side, and four sides each of the right, left, top, and bottom sides being non-rotatably fixed at a right angle to said back side;
- a left flap and right flap directly and rotatably attached to a respective said left side and right side of said four sides;
- a right flap rotatably attached to said right side;
- a planar bottom flap directly and rotatably attached to said bottom side;
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- a planar top flap directly and rotatably attached to said top side,
- wherein, in a carrying-case configuration of said device, said left flap and said right flap are adapted to fold into said box, and said bottom flap is adapted to fold to abut said right and left sides and to cover two a largest face of each of said left flap and said right flap when they are folded into said box, and said top flap over is adapted to be folded over said bottom flap and to abut said left side and said right side, thereby to form a hollow of the carrying case, said hollow being defined between said back side, said top side, said bottom side, said right side, said left side, and said top and bottom flaps, and being adapted to accommodate an object, other than said left flap and said right flap, therein, for carrying of the object, and
- in a lectern configuration of said device, said bottom flap is coplanar with said bottom side, said right flap is coplanar with said right side, said left flap is coplanar with said left side, and said top flap abuts upper lips of said right flap and said left flap, to form a lectern surface, and
- to convert the device between the carrying-case configuration and the lectern configuration, each of said right flap, said left flap, said top flap, and said bottom flap is adapted to be rotated relative to a corresponding one of said right side, said left side, said top side, and said bottom side of said box;
- wherein a planar top flange is rotatably and directly attached to a distal side of said top flap, relative to said top side, such that said top flap is disposed between said top side and said top flange.
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