US 8,136,459 B2 · Desk with book holder

Desk with book holder

AssigneeOakwood School

InventorsSam W Buckland, Jessie Rose Chipps, Julian Neal Cohen, Julia Smartt Coley, Matthew Aaron Davidson, Philip Hiroaki DeZonia, Noah Harrison Fradin, Sydney Michele Goldman, Margaret Anne Havunjian, Jonathan Thomas Losk, Narendra Nayan Nayak, Dina Ziba Saleh, Maximilian Isao Wood, Simona J. Zappas

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Abstract

A desk including a book holder positioned at a predetermined angle relative to the surface of the desk. In one embodiment the book holder is deployable, and the desk surface includes a recess into which the deployable book holder fits when the deployable book holder is in the closed position. The recess optionally includes a rubber surface to avoid slipping of the bottom edge of a book (such as a text book) when the book is being held up with the deployable book holder. In another embodiment a deployable book holder includes an aperture, and a recess includes an island. In various embodiments, a proximal end of a desk surface, closest to where a user sits, may be wider than the distal end to provide adequate arm room for the user.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A desk comprising:

a desk surface that comprises an island defined by a surrounding recess that extends to a depth below the desk surface;
and
a deployable book holder that comprises an aperture, the deployable book holder rotatably connected to a surface of the desk and having a fixed axis of rotation for a limited degree of rotation between a closed position and an open position with respect to the desk surface wherein, for the closed position, the depth of the recess accommodates the deployable book holder and the aperture of the deployable book holder accommodates the island to form a relatively flat desk surface and wherein, for the open position, a portion of the deployable book holder extends a distance above the desk surface for holding a book.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.