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US 4,867,407 AGranted
Portable book holder
OwnerFred R. Beckerinventor
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Abstract
A support is characterized by having a bendable arm that has an inner nonmoveable, longitudinal end portion thereof retained in a stationary position and an outer bendable free end portion extending through and in supporting contact with a wall that forms a passageway that extends through the base of an object to be supported so that the object can be moved about its stationary end to any desired horizontal, vertical or angularly displaced position.
Claims10
A support comprising:
- a base for supporting an object thereon,
- a bendable rod,
- a retaining means for holding one end portion of the rod in a stationary position,
- said base having an upright wall portion extending therefrom and having an elbow member forming a passageway between said wall portion and said base the other end portion of said rod having an outer longitudinal surface positioned to extend through said wall portion and into contact with said elbow for movement there along.
- said rod and said base being moveable about said retaining means to thereby position the object in any desired position.
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A book rest support comprising:
- a rest for supporting a book thereon,
- a support having a pair of bendable rods, each of said rods forming a cantilever beam that includes a stationary end portion and a moveable end portion extending away from the fixed end portion,
- said book rest having an upright wall portion extending therefrom and having two spaced apart elbow members forming passageways between said wall portion and said book rest,
- the moveable end portion of one rod being positioned to extend through and in longitudinal supporting contact with a first one of said elbows that form one of said passageways, and the moveable end of the other rod being positioned to extend through and in longitudinal supporting contact with the other elbow that forms the second passageway, said rods and said book rest being simultaneously moveable to any one of a plurality of selected vertical, horizontal or angularly displaced positions so that a book supported by said book rest can be located in a desired position for reading.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.