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US 4,448,384 AGranted
Adjustable music/book holder
OwnerLarry L. Jones, Jr., Star D. Cockrellinventors
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Abstract
An adjustable music/book holder is adaptable for being supported on a piano, organ, or conventional music stand. The holder comprises a pair of frame members which adjustably receive a pair of page holder members, a pair of hook/alternate page holder members as well as a central book safety or alternative accessory member.
Claims6
An adjustable music/book holder comprising:
- (a) a lower, elongated, transverse, metal, frame member formed of a bar material and in such manner as to establish a predetermined weight effect to help maintain the holder positioned in use;
- (b) a pair of metal rod-formed foot members formed integral with said lower frame member and extending vertically downward from the bottom and outer extremities thereof;
- (c) an upper elongated transverse frame member formed of metal sheet material and fixedly positioned above and having its longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of said lower frame member;
- (d) a first pair of metal rod-formed page holders, each having an upper vertically positioned straight rod portion mounted for rotation in an outer end portion of each of said frame members and having a lower U-shaped portion swingable around an outer extremity of said lower frame member and being adapted for holding book or music pages therein;
- (e) stop means operatively associated with said first page holder upper rod portions for limiting axial movement thereof relative to said frame members;
- (f) a second pair of metal rod-formed hook/alternate page holders, each having a lower vertically positioned straight rod portion mounted for rotation in said upper frame member at the outer ends thereof and having an upper inverted U-shaped portion adapted for alternately holding book or music pages or structural surfaces against which said holder resides, the axes of said lower, straight rod portions of said second pair of hook/alternate page holders being parallel to the axes of said upper rod portions of said first pair of page holders;
- (g) a sleeve member vertically positioned and integrally secured centrally and on said upper frame member with its longitudinal axis parallel to the axis of said first and second page holder rod portions;
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- (h) a support device having a lower metal rod-formed portion removably mounted, slidable and rotatable in said sleeve member and an upper metal rod-formed portion shaped to grasp a selected portion of a book, support surface, or the like.
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An adjustable music/book holder comprising:
- (a) a lower, elongated, transverse, metal, frame member formed of a bar material and in such manner as to establish a predetermined weight effect to help maintain the holder positioned in use;
- (b) a pair of metal rod-formed foot members formed integral with said lower frame member and extending vettically downward from the bottom and outer extremities thereof;
- (c) an upper elongated transverse frame member formed of metal sheet material and fixedly positioned above and having its longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of said lower frame member;
- (d) a first pair of metal rod-formed page holders, each having an upper vertically positioned straight rod portion mounted for rotation in an outer end portion of each of said frame members and having a lower U-shaped portion swingable around an outer extremity of said lower frame member and being adapted for holding book or music pages therein;
- (e) stop means operatively associated with said first page holder upper rod portions for limited axial movement thereof relative to said frame members;
- (f) a second pair of metal rod-shaped hook/alternate page holders, each having a lower vertically positioned straight rod portion mounted for rotation above said upper frame member around vertical axis extending through the outer ends thereof and having an upper inverted U-shaped portion adapted for alternately holding book or music pages or structural surfaces against which said holder resides, the axes of said lower, straight rod portions of said second pair of hook/alternate page holders being parallel to the axes of said upper rod portions of said first pair of page holders;
- (g) a sleeve member vertically positioned and integrally secured centrally and on said upper frame member with its longitudinal axis parallel to the axis of said first and second page holder rod portions;
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- (h) a support device having a lower metal rod-formed portion removably mounted, slidable and rotatable in said sleeve member and an upper metal rod-formed portion shaped to grasp a selected portion of a book, support surface, or the like.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.