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US 4,375,881 AGranted
Portable desk for use with automobile steering wheel
OwnerStephen A. Mitchellinventor
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Abstract
A portable desk of thin compact design which is not only reversible, making both sides thereof suitable for use as a writing surface, but also is easily attachable and removeable from the rim of an automobile or truck steering wheel as and when desired. The portable desk includes a pocket for holding index cards and the like.
Claims9
A portable reversible desk for detachable mounting on and support by the steering wheel of a motor vehicle comprising;
- (a) an inner core of uniform thickness having top and bottom smooth, planar surfaces for the support of writing material and being defined by an elongated top edge of predetermined length;
- (b) a pocket in said top edge for the holding of writing materials;
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- (c) means for detachably holding the desk to the rim of the steering wheel which comprises a pair of spaced-apart flat, elongated holding clips, one holding clip being located along and perpendicular to the top edge of the desk and at one end thereof so as to be disposed equidistantly on each side of the said top and bottom surfaces and the other holding clip being located along the top edge of the desk at the other end, said flat holding clips being slanted inwardly toward one another and forming an acute angle with the top edge of the desk.
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