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US 5,617,960 AGranted
Apparatus for holding rolled-up plans or maps
OwnerGeorge Bishopinventor
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Abstract
The apparatus has horizontally oriented top, bottom, and middle plates. The top and middle plates have openings therein, which openings receive rolled up plans. Each opening in the top plate is aligned with an opening in the middle plate. The plans, when stored in the apparatus, are vertically oriented so that their bottom ends bear on the solid bottom plate and the top ends extend above the top plate. The bottom plate provides stability to prevent the apparatus from turning over.
Claims8
An apparatus for holding rolled print media, said print media being rolled into a cylindrical shape, comprising:
- a) a bottom plate;
- b) a middle plate;
- c) a top plate;
- d) said middle plate and said top plate each having plural openings therethrough, with each opening in said top plate being aligned with a respective opening in said middle plate, said bottom plate being solid in locations beneath said openings in said middle plate;
- e) plural spacers fixedly coupling said bottom plate, said middle plate, and said top plate together in spaced apart relations, each of said spacers having a bottom end that extends below said bottom plate, wherein said apparatus bears on said spacer bottom ends, said spacers being separated from each other by a gap, each of said spacers coupling to said bottom, middle and top plates;
- f) said rolled print media having two ends and being received by an aligned set of said openings in said middle and top plates, with one of said ends bearing on said bottom plate.
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