Patent ID: 6059249
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: A47B,G09F

Abstract:
A device for holding a page upright, the device comprising:a base forming a substantially vertically facing bottom wall;a forward lip portion having a convex wall extending up from the base at an acute angle relative to vertical;a rear portion having a concave wall extending up from the base and facing the convex wall, wherein the convex wall, the concave wall and the bottom wall form a groove;two projections extending upward from the surface of the bottom wall, one projection positioned proximate each end of the bottom wall within the groove, the projections configured to support the page substantially off of the bottom wall; andtwo tapered protrusions, each protrusion extending from the bottom wall upward along substantially less than the full height of one of the concave wall and the convex wall, each protrusion extending across a majority of the groove adjacent the bottom wall and tapering, as it extends upward, into the wall along which it extends.