Patent ID: 6889951
Filing Date: 2005-05-10
Classification: B42D

Abstract:
1. A document holder adapted to support sheets of paper at a slight angle away from vertical through contact only at a lower part of those sheets comprising: (a) a planar base plate with a side to side length of about five inches or less and a front to back width of about four inches or less and is supported on a substantially flat and horizontal surface; (b) each of three posts extending rigidly up from the base plate so that the posts are essentially normal to the horizontal surface; (c) each post terminating in a holding means securely holding a weighted piece at about the same vertical distance from the horizontal surface, whereby a portion of the holder below the weighted pieces defines a lower support zone and the portion of the holder above the lowest part of the weighted pieces defines an upper weighted zone; (d) two of the posts are spaced apart to define ends of a base of an equilateral triangle in a top view with the third of the posts spaced apart from the others to form a top vertex of the equilateral triangle, whereby a paper retaining slot is formed between the base ends posts and the top vertex post and is adapted to cause a bottom edge of a cover sheet to abut a lowest part of the top vertex post and the lower part of inserted and supported sheets behind a cover sheet are slightly curved when the sheets are supported at topmost parts of the posts; and (e) the weight of the upper weighted zone is above about half of the weight of the total weight of the holder.