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US 4,460,146 AGranted
Portable reading desk
AssigneeInterstudio Design s.a.s.
InventorGuglielmo Raggiotti
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Abstract
Disclosed is a portable reading desk formed from a single piece of thin, flat, generally rectangular stock. The stock is cut and creased into three portions which can be folded either flat for travel or into a three dimensional configuration in which the desk will support a book or the like in position to be read.
Claims5
A portable and foldable desk having an erected and a collapsed position and formed from a single thin, flat generally rectangular piece, said piece comprising:
- (a) a first portion which serves as a horizontal support for the desk when the desk is in use having a front edge and having a plurality of detent notches spaced from one another at varying distances from said front edge;
- (b) a second portion which serves as an angulated support for an object to be read when the desk is in use and is connected to said first portion by a fold line which is parallel to the front edge of said first portion;
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- (c) a third portion which serves as a prop for said second portion when the desk is in use and which is connected to said second portion by a fold line which is parallel to the front edge of said first portion, said third portion being sized and shaped to fit reasonably into said detent notches on said first portion,
- wherein said first, second and third portions of said piece are foldable into a flat configuration when said piece is converted to said collapsed position, a void being defined between said first and third portions in said collapsed position serving as a handle means.
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