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US 4,382,617 AGranted
Combined book leaf holder and bookmark
OwnerJ. Paul Fortierinventor
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A combined book leaf holder and bookmark (10) for both paper back and hard cover books comprised of a pair of substantially parallel prongs (12 & 14) for insertion of one of the prongs (12) behind the spine of the book and the other prong (14) between the leaves several pages beyond the pages of immediate interest, each of the prongs (12 & 14) being in the form of two wire legs (16, 18 & 22,20) with one of the legs of each of the prongs (16 & 20) emanating from a common juncture (24) and the other leg of each of the prongs (18 & 22) emanating from a reverse bend (26 & 28) at the extremity of the prong, each of the other legs (18 & 22) having a wire arm (34 & 36) extending outwardly at substantially right angles to the prongs (12 & 14), the respective arms (34 & 36) being in substantially a single plane with the prongs (12 & 14) and extending in opposite directions from each other, and each of the arms (34 & 36) having a finger (42 & 44) transverse to the associated arm (34 & 36) for engaging a page of the book on respective sides of the spine to hold the book open at the engaged pages.
A combined book leaf holder and bookmark for a conventional book of the type having a book spine holding a plurality of book leaves having like width and like length dimensions and forming pages of the book, comprising,
A combined book leaf holder and bookmark for a conventional book of the type having a book spine holding a plurality of book leaves having like width and like length dimensions and forming pages of the book, comprising,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.