Patent ID: 6830453
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: B42D

Abstract:
An improved apparatus for turning pages of a book, including a housing 150 in which a geared motor 101 rotatable in forward and reverse directions and associated with an actuating lever 202 is installed and a backing plate for supporting the book thereon is formed; and a cover of the housing 150 provided with a guide groove 151 guiding the actuating lever 202 and with a supporting piece for fixing the page of the book which has been turned, the improvement comprising:a rotational-direction changing unit 100 having a guider 103 formed on a side of a reduction gear 102 for finally reducing a rotational speed of the geared motor 101; a pivoting unit 200 having the actuating lever 202 of which a lower end is hingedly secured on a pivoting shaft 201 and the other upper end is formed with a pressing piece 203 fixed thereto and which extends through a guide slot 104; a pressing/restraining unit 300 having a helical depressing piece 301 which surrounds the other upper end of the actuating lever 202 and of which a lower end is fixed through a pin 305 to a fixing member 303 that is fixed through a pin 302 to the housing 150, and elastic members 304 and 306 connected to the fixing member 303 and a lower end of the depressing piece 301, respectively; and a contacting/releasing unit 400 having a stopper 409 interlocked with a crankshaft 401, and a pressure contact member 402 connected through a wire 406 and an elastic member 410 to the stopper 409 and connected to an elastic member 411 so that the pressure contact member 402 can pivot in a fore and aft direction.