Patent ID: 7937843

Claim:
A compass, comprising: two broad sides; two legs having upper ends and free lower ends; holders disposed at said free lower ends of said legs for holding refills or styluses; a leg joint interconnecting said upper ends of said legs for articulation in a spreading plane; said legs each having a respective carrier zone serving, in a region between said leg joint and said free lower ends of said legs, as a disk-shaped base of an information bearing surface with outer and inner sides and a greater width in said spreading plane than said legs; said information bearing surface being disposed within said two broad sides on said respective disk-shaped base and constructed as an undivided surface projecting from one of said legs into vicinity of the other of said legs and permitting opening and closing of said legs without a gap or interspace being formed in said information bearing surface; said disk-shaped bases with said information bearing surfaces of said two legs matching each other in a congruent double configuration with a small gap therebetween, in a closed position of said legs, thereby displaying said outer sides of said disk-shaped bases together with said information bearing surfaces thereon; and said disk-shaped bases, in a wide opened position of said legs, displaying said outer and inner sides of said disk-shaped bases and four resulting information bearing surfaces thereon.