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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
May. 07, 1999
Douglas A. Olvey, Longwood, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
An easel or book stand for the support of a book or booklet utilizing front and rear panels movable into a spread-apart relationship. An elongate base member attached between the lower edges of the panels includes a first flexible elongate component hingedly connected along the lower edge of the front panel as well as to a second elongate component. The second elongate component has a slightly greater width than the first elongate component, and through an intermediate base member, has a connection with the lower edge of the rear panel. The front panel, when its lower edge is moved a bit rearwardly from its spread-apart relationship with the rear panel, causes the first and second elongate components to move into an adjacent, substantially coplanar relationship. The first and second elongate components are together rotatable between an outwardly-extending, book-receiving position along the lower edge of the front panel, and an upward position in which the elongate components are in essential parallelism with the front panel. The first elongate component, being of lesser width than the second elongate component, serves as some support for the lower edge of the front panel during such upward rotation of the elongate components, with the portion of the weight of the front panel borne by the first elongate component contributing to the development of an automatic bias holding the second elongate component in firm contact with the lower edge of a book residing adjacent the front panel.