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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1980
John E Cooke, Lakewood, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A clip-on book end which includes a clip-on base portion connected at an offset location to the bottom corner of a book support portion with the two portions formed as a one-piece molded plastic unit. The clip-on base portion has a resilient clip section opposite and in spaced relation to a bottom surface of the support defining a shelf-receiving passage with an opening at one end through which the end portion of a bookshelf is passed and received with the resilient clip section spreading apart to accommodate shelves of different thicknesses. The clip section has a gripping surface opposite a surface extending along the bottom of the support portion which is constructed and arranged such that laterally directed side loads on the book support portion, as would occur with a tipped row of books, tend to bind the base portion to the bookshelf and maintain the book end in an upright position. In addition, the support portion has a width in relation to its thickness that prevents the exposed pages of a book from being damaged by jamming a book into the support portion during reshelving. The clip-on base portion forms a U-shaped passage that may house the depending edge wall and flange of a metal book shelf while permitting the clip section to close snugly on the much thinner sheet material of the main shelf area. Flanges of differing length are accommodated by removal or replacement of an insert at the lower edge of the U-shaped passage mouth.