Patent ID: 6270049
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
An easel primarily for use in the support of a book or booklet, said easel utilizing a front panel operatively associated with a rear panel, with said front panel extending the full lateral length of the easel and being movable into a spread-apart relationship with said rear panel, said front panel having a lower edge, to which an elongate base member is hingedly attached, with said elongate base member involving a plurality of elongate components, including a first elongate component of flexible construction so as to be able to undertake curvature, said first elongate component extending substantially the full lateral length of said front panel, said first elongate component hingedly connected to said lower edge of said front panel as well as to a second elongate component of said elongate base member, with said second elongate component having a slightly greater width than said first elongate component, said front panel, when its lower edge is moved a bit rearwardly from its spread-apart relationship with said rear panel, causing said first and second elongate components to move into an adjacent, substantially coplanar relationship, such that said first elongate component is located above said second elongate component, with said elongate components extending along said lower edge of said front panel, said first and second elongate components being rotatable between an outwardly-extending, book-receiving position, and an upward position in which said first and second elongate components are in essential parallelism with said front panel, said first elongate component, by being of lesser width than said second elongate component, serving as some support for said lower edge of said front panel during such upward rotation of said elongate components, said first elongate component undertaking curvature and being biased into a firm restraining contact with the lower edge of a book or booklet residing adjacent said front panel.