Information
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Patent Grant
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6290200
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Patent Number
6,290,200
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Date Filed
Wednesday, February 23, 200024 years ago
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Date Issued
Tuesday, September 18, 200123 years ago
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Inventors
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Examiners
- King; Anita
- Baxter; Gwendlyn
Agents
- Pro-Techtor International Services
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CPC
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US Classifications
Field of Search
US
- 248 4422
- 248 23141
- 248 918
- 248 451
- 248 460
- 248 23161
- 248 4472
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International Classifications
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Abstract
A collapsible papers, book holder, which includes two holder plates, and a mounting assembly for mounting on a housing of computer monitor is used to hold the holder plates at two sides, wherein the mounting assembly includes two angle frames bilaterally attached to the top and side walls of housing of the computer monitor, a screw rod connected to the angle frames on the top, and an adjusting knob firmly fixed in the screw rod to move the angle frames close or separate, the holder plates are respectively pivoted to the angle frames, each having a paper clip for holding thinner paper, and a pen holder means for holding writing tools.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a paper, book holder, and more particularly to a collapsible paper, book holder for using on a computer monitor.
Many paper, book holders have been disclosed, those desk-top holders are usually mounted on a table, particularly when a personal computer with its peripherals such as keyboard, printer, monitor, mouse pad, scanner etc., are occupied much table space, so there is no much table space left for user to put papers, books, files or stationery, this will be very inconvenient to the user during the operation of P.C. A mis-touch of keyboard may cause serious errors or un-expectable trouble.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The principal object of the present invention is to provide a paper, book holder which is collapsible. Another object is that it can be quickly mounted on the housing of computer monitor without occupying any table-top space. It is still another object of the present invention is to provide a paper, book holder which is adjustable to fit any size of computer monitors. According to one aspect of the present invention, the holder comprises two holder plates each equipped with a paper clip for holding paper, and a mounting assembly for mounting on a monitor housing to hold the holder plates at two sides. According to another aspect of the present invention, the mounting assembly comprises two angle frames bilaterally attached to top and lateral side walls of the monitor housing, these two angle frames are connected by a screw rod at the top of monitor, and an adjusting knob is considerably designed on the screw rod to move the angle frames close or separate in accordance with the size of the computer monitor on which the paper, book holder is to be mounted. According to still another aspect of the present invention, the holder plates are respectively pivoted to the angle frames, each having a pen holder means on the bottom of plate.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1
is a perspective view of the present invention, showing the collapsible holder installed on a computer monitor.
FIG. 2
illustrate holder plates turned relative to the respective angle frames according to the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring to
FIG. 1
, a collapsible paper, book holder in accordance with the present invention is shown and comprised of a mounting assembly
1
, and two holder plates
2
. The mounting assembly
1
comprises two angle frames, namely, the first angle frame
11
and the second angle frame
12
, a screw rod
13
, and an adjusting knob
131
. The angle frames
11
and
12
both comprise a raised end block
111
,
121
, and the screw holes
112
,
122
at the center of raised end block
111
,
121
are threaded reversely. The angle frames
11
and
12
each further comprises two bevel-end lugs
14
perpendicularly raised, and two stop flanges
15
vertically spaced at one lateral side of the frames. The screw rod
13
is threaded and goes through the screw hole
112
of the first angle frame
11
and the screw hole
12
of the second angle frame
12
. The adjusting knob
131
is properly assembled on the screw rod
13
and spaced between the raised end block
111
and
121
, and rotated to move the angle frames
11
and
12
each other relatively close or separate. Each holder plates
2
is designed to give a slant, it comprises a substantially triangular side wall
21
raised from its one lateral side, two bevel-end lugs
22
perpendicularly raised and respectively pivoted to the bevel-end lugs at one angle frame
11
or
12
, and a horizontal channel holder
23
formed integral on the bottom side of holder plate
2
.
Referring to
FIG. 1
again, the angle frames
11
and
12
are mounted on the housing of the computer monitor, yet the adjusting knob
131
is rotated to move the angle frames
11
and
12
toward each other and to fix the angle frames
11
and
12
tightly at two opposite sides of the computer monitor. Also, at this time, the two stop flanges
15
of the angle frames
11
and
12
does provide a function of preventing the holder from falling down to backward.
Referring to
FIG. 2
, the holder plates
2
can be completely opened to the user, or to be folded close to the housing of monitor.
Referring to
FIGS. 1 and 2
again, each holder plate
2
is equipped with a paper clip
24
for holding paper. A magnetic pad
26
is designed in front side of each holder plate
2
, so that a thinner paper can be securely and flatly attached on the magnetic pad
26
by magnetic strips. A pen holder means
25
may be provided at the bottom of holder plate
2
to hold writing tools likely pen, ruler, eraser etc.
Referring to
FIG. 2
again, an angle block
16
may be respectively fastened to the bottom end of angle frame
11
or
12
for positioning the whole holder on the computer monitor positively. The angle block comprises a coupling hole
161
at its one end, which receives the bottom end of each angle frames
11
or
12
, a screw hole
162
at one side, and a tightening-up screw
163
threaded into the screw hole
162
to fix the angle block
16
to the angle frame
11
or
12
.
Claims
- 1. A collapsible document holder for a computer monitor comprising:a mounting assembly comprising a first angle frame, a second angle frame, a screw rod that passes through said first angle frame and said second angle frame, and an adjusting knob mounted on said screw rod such that rotating said adjusting knob changes a spacing between said angle frames, and a holder plate pivotally attached to each of said first and said second angle frames, said holder plates each comprising a slanted wall with a horizontal channel at a bottom side thereof to receive documents; wherein said angle frames each comprise a pair of stop flanges extending inward from a front surface of an end piece of each of said angle frames, and said angle frames each further comprise an angle block adjustably fastened to lower ends of said end pieces of said angle frames, said angle blocks extending inward from said angle frames; such that transverse members of said angle frames inadapted to contact an upper surface of the computer monitor, said end pieces of said angle frames is adapted to contact side surfaces of the computer monitor, said spacing between said angle frames being adjustable so that any size computer monitor is accommodated, said stop flanges contact a front surface of the computer monitor, and said angle blocks is adapted to contact a bottom surface of the computer monitor, a vertical position of said angle blocks being adjustable so that any size computer monitor is accommodated, said collapsible document holder thereby is adapted to contact the computer monitor on five surfaces such that said collapsible document holder is securely fixable in position on the computer monitor.
- 2. The collapsible document holder of claim 1, wherein:at least one of said holder plates comprises a paper clip.
- 3. The collapsible document holder of claim 1, wherein:at least one of said holder plates comprises a pen holder means.
- 4. The collapsible document holder of claim 1, wherein:at least one of said holder plates comprises a magnetic pad.
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