Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
248451000 | With article gripping means | 37 |
20090200446 | Book rest with page holder - The disclosed book rest is a bean filled bag (G), having insert ( | 08-13-2009 |
20100006735 | Portable Multipurpose Platform - A multipurpose platform suitable for use as a desk and an easel is disclosed. The multipurpose platform includes a tablet with a flat front surface and items attached to the tablet, including at least one retractable hook, a retractable primary shaft, and a retractable shaft locking mechanism that can fix the position of the primary shaft relative to the platform. The retractable hook is deployable as a hook when the tablet is configured as a desk, and as a leg when the tablet is configured as an easel. The retractable primary shaft is deployable against a vertical surface, when the tablet is configured as a desk, and against a horizontal surface when the tablet is configured as an easel. Embodiments include a base and stand pole that can support the platform as a lectern or podium, a light, electronic accessories, and storage compartments. Some embodiments can be folded in half. | 01-14-2010 |
20100213343 | Book Rest With Page Holder - The disclosed book rest is a bean filled bag (G), having insert ( | 08-26-2010 |
20100294908 | BOOKSTAND FOR AN eREADER - A bookstand for an eReader including a center support and a plurality of manipulatable supports coupled to the center support. The plurality of manipulable supports being moveable between at least a first storage position and a second open position for supporting the eReader in a reading position. | 11-25-2010 |
20100320355 | CLIPBOARD - A clipboard includes a main plate having top and bottom faces and lateral sides, and a clip plate of triangular cross section and including a mid-portion provided at one of the lateral sides, top and bottom plate portions extending convergingly from two opposite ends of the mid-portion and having converging distal press ends abutting respectively against the top and bottom faces of the main plate, and two press levers connected pivotally and respectively to the distal press ends of the top and bottom plate portions. A fixing plate has two opposite ends fixed to the bottom face of the main plate, and a middle section between the ends of the fixing plate and pressing the bottom plate portion against the bottom face of the main plate, thereby fixing the bottom plate portion to the main plate. | 12-23-2010 |
20110057088 | MULTIPURPOSE SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD - The invention is directed multipurpose support device for supporting an item such as a laptop computer or a book. The support device has a base that is adapted to be coupled to a structural support, such as a mobile cart, a desk, a sofa or a wall. | 03-10-2011 |
20110073740 | Book holder - Holder consists of a base connected to fences at each end. Legs, one at each side of the base, are attached to the base at the movable fence end. Deploying legs positions the base in an acceptable book reading angle with the movable fence upward. Books, hard or soft cover, are held in place on the base by the inside edges of page tab assemblies which are spring loaded to the fences through elongated slots. Tabs are adjusted to hold down pages of a book by moving them perpendicularity and/or side to side over each side of an opened book's pages. Further tab adjustments needed to obtain a clear field of reading vision is obtain by rotating the tab page retainers. Page turning is accomplished without further adjustment or movement of the tab assembly. | 03-31-2011 |
20120091307 | STAND AND METHOD FOR HANDS FREE READING AND VIEWING - A flexible stand for an electronic reading device allows hands-free support with infinitely adjustable positioning in three dimensions plus an additional degree of pivot-ability. Using flexible tubing (gooseneck tubing) of two of more degrees of flexibility allows a stiffer portion to act as a stable but grossly repositionable base. In a complementary fashion, a more flexible portion proximal to the supported reading device allows for ready fine positioning. | 04-19-2012 |
20120305735 | MOBILE DEVICE STAND WITH ADHESIVE ATTACHMENT - A device stand for mobile devices is disclosed herein. The device stand includes a planar body having a first side and a second side, wherein the first side includes a hinge; and a stand coupled to the hinge to pivot around the hinge. The second side includes a surface configured to conform to a mobile device, and an adhesive layer coupled to the second side of the planar body. | 12-06-2012 |
20130134283 | COVER PANEL CAPABLE OF KEEPING DISPLAY PANEL DIAGONALLY - It is an object of the present invention to provide a cover panel for keeping a display panel diagonally. A cover panel is employed by an information-indicating means, for example a paper folder, a paper binder, a book with a hard cover and an electronic display. The cover panel is connected to a display panel with a main joint portion. The cover panel is divided into an upper portion and a lower portion by a sub joint portion. When cover panel is opened, the swung lower portion extends on a desk top. In another case, the lower portion and the sub joint portion is abbreviated. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134284 | GRASPING ASSEMBLY AND SUPPORT DEVICE USING THE SAME - A grasping assembly, for grasping an electronic device, includes a fixing seat, a first grasping member securely mounted on the fixing seat, a second grasping member, and at least one elastic member mounted on the second grasping member. A resisting portion is formed on the fixing seat toward the first grasping member. The second grasping member is slidably mounted between the fixing seat and the first grasping member. A grasping portion is formed on a free end of the second grasping member away from the fixing seat. When the second grasping member slides along the fixing seat away from the first grasping member, the at least one elastic member is resisted by the resisting portion and is deformed to generate an elastic force for moving the grasping portion toward the first grasping member for grasping the electronic device. | 05-30-2013 |
20140021323 | Book Sized Holder/Cradle and Associated Clamping and Positioning Mechanisms Combined into a Single Article for the Purpose of Facilitating Ergonomically Centric Human Interface With a Handheld/Pocket-sized Device While Allowing Access to the Handheld/Pocket-sized Device's Touch Screen and Selected IO Ports and Interface Buttons - An apparatus that provides an increased user working area and holding surface that clamps a palm-sized electronic interactive device and holds it in an outward facing direction against a larger background surface in a manner that promotes griping within the users palm in a two handed book-like interaction not otherwise achievable with the electronic device alone. | 01-23-2014 |
20140091193 | HOLDER FOR BOOKS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A device for holding a book or electronic viewer on a platform in which a clamping mechanism allows mounting to a supporting structure such as a piece of furniture. The clamp includes a V-shaped piece able to be fit to a corner of the furniture piece and securely engage a narrow overhang. A set of stretch cords are provided which each has tips each receivable in one of a field of holes to form loops holding corners of various sized item to the platform. | 04-03-2014 |
20140239142 | MULTIPLE FOOTPRINT STAND FOR A TABLET COMPUTER - In a tablet computer stand for supporting a computer shaped as a tablet on a support surface, at least first and second footprints joined at an angle are provided. At a front end of the first footprint, a receiving surface is provided receiving an end of the tablet to support the tablet on the stand. The footprints are dimensioned and positioned relative to the tablet end receiving surface such that the stand with the tablet thereon is stable when either the first or the second footprint is resting on said support surface. | 08-28-2014 |
20140312194 | PARTICULATE COLLECTING PAD - A portable pad. The pad providing a surface having a raised portion to barricade particles disposed thereon. The pad includes a clip configured to hold a document on the surface. | 10-23-2014 |
20150028175 | Apparatus for Holding Portable Devices - An apparatus comprises a device cradle being configured to removably retain a portable device. The device cradle comprises a u-shaped frame being configured to receive and hold at least three peripheral sides of the portable device. An easel is in engagement with the cradle. The easel comprises lower attachment points configured to engage carrying apparatuses. The easel is further configured to extend upward from a back bottom of the frame. A junction is in engagement with a top of the easel. A hoop structure is in engagement with the junction. The hoop structure is positionable to have a spring-forward tension towards the easel to form a clip in which the clip may engage a structure and the portable device is removably secured to the structure. | 01-29-2015 |
20150034792 | Painting Support Board - A painting support system has a painting support board for holding smaller artist's panels or canvases that is colored so the area surrounding the panel or canvas mimics the frame for the finished painting. A reference line grid are scribed on the painting support board more accurately draw and observe straight lines. A continuous loop strip of a hook and loop system placed on all four sides of the support board. A mahl stick with a hook patch of the hook and loop system placed on a tip of the mahl stick allows the artist to attach the mahl stick anywhere on the support board to the loop strip to steady and support the hand while painting. Panel securing clips are placed in receiving fasteners inserted in fastener holes at fixed locations on the painting support board to allow attaching several different sizes of the paint canvases and panels. | 02-05-2015 |
20150115123 | FOLDABLE AND PORTABLE MUSIC STAND - A foldable and portable music stand ( | 04-30-2015 |
20150374118 | Stand for a Portable Device With a Graphic User Interface Display - A stand for supporting a portable device has a first panel for supporting the device, a second panel hinged so as to be pivotable relative to the first panel about a first hinge axis and an angle setting leg hinged so as to be pivotable relative to the first panel or the second panel about a second hinge axis and having a free end releasably connectable to the other one of the first panel and the second panel at a distance from the first hinge axis for setting an angle between the first panel and the second panel. A flexible attachment flap projects from and extends along at least a portion of at least one edge of the first panel. The flap has an attachment surface for attachment to a bottom surface of or attached to the device. | 12-31-2015 |
20160128480 | Portable Easel - A portable easel for allowing a user to conveniently transport art supplies and a drawing surface to various locations. The portable easel includes an easel board removably and pivotally secured to a tripod base, wherein one or more legs of the tripod base are independently adjustable in length so as to allow for the easel to be positioned on an uneven support surface, such as a hill. Further, the tripod base may be folded into a compact configuration to conveniently transport the easel. The easel board is secured to the tripod base by a ball and socket connection, wherein the easel board can rotate thereon to allow a user to draw, paint, and the like at various angles. In some embodiments, the easel board includes one or more lights thereon so as to illuminate the drawing surface and a storage band removably securable to the easel board that can hold art supplies therein. | 05-12-2016 |
248452000 | Top | 9 |
20090045314 | Wall mount clip for sheet like material such as paper/pictures - A wall mount clip for sheet like materials includes a sheet base and a sheet retainer, wherein the upper end of the sheet retainer is mounted together with the upper end of the sheet base, and the sheet retainer is extended downwardly to the curled lower end which provides resilient force due to deformation of the sheet retainer. The contact point between the curled lower end and the sheet base extends continuously and latitudinally along the elongated lower end to form a contact line to exert said resilient force to hold the sheet like materials. The user can easily slide the sheet materials from the contact point from various angles upwardly to the empty space created by the sheet base and sheet retainer. The wall mount clip will not damage the sheet materials because the resilient is smaller than that generated by conventional clips. | 02-19-2009 |
20090084924 | DOCUMENT HOLDER FOR CARTS - A document holder is provided for a vehicle such as a cart, and especially a shopping cart having a back panel. The document holder includes a writing portion and a bracket portion. A securing member is provided at the writing portion to secure a piece of paper such as a grocery list or coupons. Preferably, the bracket portion has a forward bracket member spaced from a rearward bracket member to define a channel for receiving an upper portion of the back panel to support the holder. The securing member may be configured to hold a writing instrument. An advertisement holder may be positioned on the holder to hold and protect advertisements, store announcements, pictures, or the like while also providing a writing surface thereon. In a preferred embodiment, a document holder includes a flexible, resilient frame or bumper, and/or a two-piece bracket portion for attachment to a shopping cart. | 04-02-2009 |
20090314917 | FIELD EASEL WITH INTEGRATED PAINT/SKETCH BOX - A field easel with an integrated sketch box is provided. The sketch box comprises cavities for art supplies, allowing art supplies to be stored inside the cavity and secured with plates covered in memory foam. An easel is hinged to the rear wall of the box such that the easel can display painting support in a multitude of angles, and the easel provides adjustable support clamps that accept different sizes of painting support and can raise and lower the height of the painting support with respect to the box. Optionally, the field easel can be secured to a standardized tripod. | 12-24-2009 |
20090321605 | Laptop Stand - The EZ Laptop Stand® is a stand for a laptop computer that is very inexpensive, extremely lightweight, easy to assemble and disassemble and folds flat for portability. It is made from foamcore for its light weight, inexpensive material cost, and strength and durability when designed in the manner that it is. Manufacturing is done by laser cutting or die cutting, both methods being cost effective and practical for use with foamcore. There are three models of the EZ Laptop Stand®, the main feature of all three consisting of primary support members, which when folded or hinged at an acute angle at their mid point, create two strong triangular sloped surfaces tapered to a narrower dimension towards the bottom, front edge (the side closest to the user), where feet protrude upward for the laptop computer to rest against. These two primary support members are connected by two smaller cross-members that slide onto them along slots that keep all the pieces of the EZ Laptop Stand® fixed, in a rigid, upright formation on which the laptop computer rests. The EZ Laptop Stand® raises the laptop computer high enough to achieve proper ergonomics for the user while allowing comfortable use of onboard keyboard, high enough to allow adequate ventilation for heat dissipation from under the computer, high enough to provide protection from spilled of beverages, and is inexpensive to buy and simple to disassemble and reassemble for easy portability. | 12-31-2009 |
20100051777 | Collapsible Top Hanger Easel - A folding and collapsing easel that includes one or more retainer devices or attachments that can be coupled to the top of the display material. The easel includes a top portion and a bottom portion, each portion having three legs that are coupled together to form a stand. The top portion of the easel includes two elongated members that are pivotally coupled to two of the legs and further coupled to each other at adjacent ends, such that the elongated members may form a “V” shape when extended. The easel further includes one or more chart holding pins with retainer springs to secure display materials to the easel. | 03-04-2010 |
20110168865 | Slant board - An adaptive aid used for reading, writing and with a laptop computer for typing. The Slant Board is comprised of several components that when assembled work in synergy to provide the unique functions of the invention. The folding locking legs are utilized to set the dry erase/magnetic-working surface at a prescribed angle to perform a task. The Slant Board is compact for storage, multifunctional in its uses and lightweight for transportability. | 07-14-2011 |
20120091308 | LaRue's two-clip double sided clipboard - The present invention discloses a two clip double sided clipboard. The two clip double sided clipboard may comprise a flat clipboard with a clip on each flat surface of the clipboard. The clips may include pads for resting on the flat surfaces of the clipboard. | 04-19-2012 |
20130037683 | DOCUMENTS-HANGING SHOWCASE WITHOUT THE UTILIZATION OF CLIPS AND METHOD FOR ITS REALIZATION - Showcase made up of a support structure, with a flat portion and an upper portion for holding sheets, wherein the upper portion is configured as a housing with at least one eyelet-configured open end so as to contain a plurality of rolling ball elements adapted to hold the sheet against the flat portion given that the sheet is inserted in the upper portion. | 02-14-2013 |
20140291469 | UNIVERSAL TABLET AND SMARTPHONE HOLDER - A universal tablet and smart phone holder includes an enlarged soft core, an upper tip section; an elongate spine element extending at least partially through the soft core and to the tip section. A flexible cover is disposed about the soft core, spine element and tip section. The spine element and tip section are operable to bend and rotate such that when a tablet or smartphone is placed into the novel holder, a bottom edge of the tablet is supported by the soft core, and an upper edge of the media device held by the tip section such that the media device is firmly secured thereto. | 10-02-2014 |
248453000 | Bottom | 8 |
20080230672 | Holder, Flat Pattern and Method For the Making Thereof - A foldable holder fabricated from a material layer, consisting of panels that together form an essentially triangular profiled tube for supporting, for example, documents or a laptop. | 09-25-2008 |
20100243854 | Presentation pad easel - A folding presentation pad easel, particularly suited for a classroom or teaching environment, utilizes a support spine and a leg element with additional legs to form a rigid triangular base, a supporting column, and a telescopic support, with pivotal supports therebetween. Superior stability is provided as well as a minimum required floor space to the rear of the easel, a feature which is particularly desirable in a classroom. When the easel is folded it has a set of wheels and a handle in which can be used for mobility. | 09-30-2010 |
20120032061 | HANDS-FREE READING DEVICE - The disclosed hands-free reading device is a particle filled bag having an alcove to support a book or other item comprising readable text in a hands-free reading position. A method of arranging an item for the purposes of reading is also provided. | 02-09-2012 |
20120181410 | STAND FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FOLDING METHOD THEREOF - A stand for supporting a portable electronic device is constructed by a foldable body. The foldable body includes three parallel fold lines dividing the foldable body into a first supporting portion, a second supporting portion, a connection portion, and a bottom portion. One end of the first support portion is fixed on the bottom portion. The first supporting portion, the second supporting portion, and the bottom portion forming a triangular structure. A slot is defined in the connection portion adjacent to the bottom portion. A resisting portion is formed on the bottom portion adjacent to the connection portion. The resisting portion extends through the slot. | 07-19-2012 |
20130256495 | Artist's Easel and Method - The invention is a tripod easel in which the first, second and third legs are elastically deformable in the forward and rearward directions between a first position and a second position. In the second position, the first and third legs define arcs in the forward direction and the second leg defines an arc in the rearward direction. In the second position, the three legs define a free-standing tripod. The first and third legs define rows of supporting holes that can support an artwork support apparatus, a cantilevered shelf, a palette holder, a paper towel holder or other accessories. | 10-03-2013 |
20140145055 | PROTECTIVE COVER - A protective cover structure includes a bottom plate, a coupling plate and a top lid. Two opposite edges of the coupling plate are respectively connected to the bottom plate and a top lid. The bottom plate, coupling plate and top lid are foldable with respect to one another. The bottom plate includes a first bottom board and second bottom board being foldable to each other. A buckling tongue for holding an electronic device is disposed on the first bottom board, and a covering element covering and positioning the electronic device is disposed on the second bottom board. An electronic device can be covered and positioned through the arrangement of the buckling tongue and covering element. When intending to operate the electronic device, a user lifts the top lid and folds and positions it under the bottom plate, or disengage the buckling tongue to release the electronic device, thereby supporting the electronic device in a standing-up use. | 05-29-2014 |
20160058175 | COMBINATION SHEET MUSIC STAND AND DRY ERASE BOARD - The combination sheet music stand and dry erase board is a supplemental sheet music stand for use in combination with a music rack of a conventional piano. The combination sheet music stand and dry erase board includes a planar support having opposed upper and lower ends and opposed front and rear surfaces. The planar support is formed from a transparent material adapted for receiving erasable ink on the front surface thereof. Indicia indicative of at least one musical staff is formed on the rear surface of the planar support, allowing a user to erasably write musical notation directly on the front surface of the planar support. A shelf for supporting sheet music or the like is mounted on the lower end of the planar support. A retaining member is mounted on the upper end of the planar support for suspension from an upper edge of the music rack. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066686 | ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An adjustable support for supporting an electronic device includes a first, a second and a third frame rotatably connected to two end portions of the first frame. Each frame includes a number of sliding limit structures on one surface of the frame. The frames are configurable into at least the following positions: a first position in which the first and second frames are flat and the third frame is at a non-zero angle to the first frame, and a second position in which the first and the third frames are flat and the second frame is at a non-zero angle to the first frame. One of the flat frames supports the lower edge of the electronic device with a selected sliding limit structure of the flat frames stopping the lower edge of the electronic device, and the standing frame acts as a back stand for the electronic device. | 03-10-2016 |