Bookmark
OwnerBrandt S. Swallow, Joseph Bruce Swallow +1inventors
InventorsBrandt S. Swallow, Joseph Bruce Swallow, Cinda E. Swallow
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Abstract
An improved bookmark for indicating to a user the location where the user was previously reading in a piece of literature having a plurality of pages and a plurality of lines. The bookmark has a position indicator for indicating to the user where to position the bookmark on the page and a line indicator slidably mounted on the bookmark for marking the line where the user was previously reading by sliding the line indicator along the bookmark.
Claims8
A bookmark for indicating to a user the location where the user was previously reading in a piece of the literature having a plurality of pages and a plurality of lines, the bookmark comprising:
- a panel member having a top end, a bottom end, a front side and an opposite back side for positioning between the plurality of pages, and a first pair of parallel slits;
- a ribbon having two ends, each of the ends extending through a respective one of the first pair of slits and secured to the panel member;
- a position indicator being located on the front side near the top end of the panel member for indicating to the user where to position the panel member on the page;
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- a line indicator body having a second pair of parallel slits and being slidably mounted on the ribbon with the ribbon extending through the second pair of parallel slits;
- wherein the line indicator marking the line where the user was previously reading by sliding the line indicator body along the ribbon.
A method for indicating to a user the location where the user was previously reading in a piece of the literature having a plurality of pages and a plurality of lines, the method comprising:
- providing a bookmark including a panel member having a top end, a bottom end, a front side and an opposite back side for positioning between the plurality of pages, and a first pair of parallel slits, a ribbon having two ends, each of the ends extending through a respective one of the first pair of slits and secured to the panel member, a position indicator being located on the front side near the top end of the panel member for indicating to the user where to position the panel member on the page, and a line indicator body having a second pair of parallel slits and being slidably mounted on the ribbon with the ribbon extending through the second pair of parallel slits;
- positioning the position indicator on the page;
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- marking the line where the user was previously reading by sliding the line indicator body along the ribbon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.