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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1999
Nick Wilson, Flossmoor, IL (US);
Frank Thibideau, East Hazelcrest, IL (US);
Morrison Timing Screw Company, Glenwood, IL (US);
Abstract
A light box having a pair of retractable flat legs that fit into shallow depressions in the rear surface of the housing for the light box and are pivotable from a storage position wherein they are substantially entirely within the depression and a functional position wherein they project out from the housing and can serve to help support the light box on a flat surface with its translucent surface exposed to the side. The legs, when in the functional position, are helped to be held in place by close fitting adjacent edge wells of the depression and are resiliently bendable so as to be able to be moved between the storage and active positions by being flexibly bent outward by the user and rotated over the non-depression or raised portions of the rear surface and yet snap back into either depressed position.