CN1279860C

CN1279860C - Portable desk or lectern

Info

Publication number: CN1279860C
Application number: CN 02827380
Authority: CN
Inventors: 希蒙·贝蒂托
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2001-12-21
Filing date: 2002-12-20
Publication date: 2006-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 2022-12-20
Also published as: GB2385023A; GB0229603D0; WO2003055355A1; GB0130786D0; AU2002353223A1; GB2385023B; CN1615095A

Abstract

A portable desk or lectern is provided in the form of a clamshell case having steel strips (3) formed in the side margins of a lid (8) and cursors (4) supported in cantilever fashion on these steel strips. The cursors can be easily moved up and down to align with selected lines of text of a book or pad (not shown) supported against the lid (8) and can be lifted off to allow the pages to be turned easily. Furthermore the cursors are flexible to conform to the surface of each open page. A slidable tray (12) provides a writing surface and a cylindrical cavity (11) accommodates the bottom of the book or the forward edge of the tray.

Description

Portable desk or little stand

Technical field

The present invention relates to for example desk of portable little stand or frame.Desk is traditional furniture item, is used in the past write letter but almost only is used as decoration now.

Background technology

Though traditional desk can move, it does not conform to and is suitable for the object carried as people.Traditional desk is not leaned on for book to be read provides when the user writes, and does not conform to thus and be suitable for child or student and do their homework.Traditional desk does not have attraction to the young man and damages too easily when using in school or outside school.Traditional desk does not have generator to overcome reading difficulty to help people.Traditional desk has not designed suitable dimensions, to support books and other school or the university's operation object that hold current use.The tradition desk does not provide the device that user and other people are covered, and can not impel user's work of concentrating one's energy thus especially.

No matter still be outside the family at home, be necessary for child and the student clean and tidy studying space of providing convenience and finish their homework, be necessary to provide a kind of device, it can aid reading and writes, by it being arranged to secure support school textbook and writing surface being provided simultaneously.And it is desirable to provide one-level to cover, to reduce the user by distractive temptation.

U.S. Pat 3,041,774 disclose a kind of portable desk, and it has a little stand part and that is used to support the books of expansion and is engaged in little stand part and books horizontal rubber strip on every side in use.Can regulate rubber strip in still this feasible very difficult page turning of upright position that launches on the page or leaf.

Summary of the invention

The objective of the invention is, overcome or alleviate more above-mentioned at least shortcomings.

Therefore, the invention provides a kind of portable desk or little stand, comprise and the hinged base plate of a lid that can raise, described lid in use is in the position of its rising, so that support books that launch, scratchpad or paper, and described lid has at least one arm that extends inward that overhangs out from its edge, described arm in use launches to extend on the page or leaf at one of books or scratchpad or paper, and above-mentioned arm magnetically is adsorbed on the above-mentioned edge, therefore in use above-mentioned arm can slide along above-mentioned edge and can be moved into not concordant with horizontal line so that align with literal line on the described page or leaf.

When above-mentioned expansion page or leaf lifts, above-mentioned arm preferably can with above-mentioned edge separation.

Other preferred feature limits in the dependent claims.

Preferred embodiment not only comprises the characteristics of traditional desk, promptly is specifically designed to the device of writing and can holding writing material, and comprises especially to school children and the useful supplementary features of student.

In a preferred embodiment, a pair of travelling arm or travelling arm not only can be used for keeping reliably books to launch, and can be used for the text alignment with book page.Each travelling arm is arranged to provide one the window of single file (or have limit row) to occur by it.This device is interpreted as it is that those are read inconvenient child is helpful, because when reading on their row of concentrating on browsing.

In preferred two arms or the travelling arm each links to each other with the reading lid portion of desk by magnetic pull.This geometry is arranged as each arm and provides and act on like the spring, and it is for various books thickness limits book page.Each arm can be moved into not concordant with horizontal line to align with literal line on the page so that read window.In addition, because these arms only link to each other with the reading lid portion of desk by magnetic pull, for the page turning or the purpose of changing book, they can be easy to remove from lid.

The key character of one embodiment of the present invention is a sliding writing surface.This is suitable to provide by a kind of rigid material thin slice, and it selectively is coated with a writing surface that is fit to, and this writing surface is downward-sloping, so that with the estrade that uses desk thereon or other stayed surface contacts or near contacting.This surface is used to support writing paper and as the result of its slip effect and be positioned at from comfortable reading distance place of reading lid portion.When the slip writing surface launched to be in writing position, the base section of desk was longer than the apparent size of book when folding up.Because the writing surface that tilts extends near contacting with the stayed surface that uses desk thereon, can use the super-huge writing paper that surpasses the writing surface capacity that stretches out.

Description of drawings

To only the preferred embodiments of the present invention be described by example below with reference to figures 1 through 6, in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is being in its deployed configuration just of writing surface that has indentation according to the present invention

Take the perspective view of formula desk;

Fig. 2 is similar perspective view, but shows the writing surface that stretches out;

The desk that Fig. 3 shows Fig. 1 and 2 is in the perspective view in the closing structure;

Fig. 4 is the arm of desk or the zoomed-in view of travelling arm device, wherein shows the cross section of marginal branch support rail;

Fig. 5 is the perspective view of watching above the arm of Fig. 4 or travelling arm, and

Fig. 6 is the perspective view of watching below the arm of Fig. 4 or travelling arm.

The specific embodiment

Referring to Fig. 1, comprise base plate 13 and lid 8 with the desk shown in the clam shell form, they are hinged determining a hinge axis 10 (Fig. 2), so as to form as shown in Figure 3 can fold the box of closing.As Fig. 1 and 3 was clearly shown that, the hole 1 that forms in base plate 13 and lid 8 and 2 folded at box and aims at respectively when closing, and carried handle easily to form.

The latch mechanism (not shown) makes lid 8 and base plate 13 keep closing, and lid and base plate be complementary hollow shell form, and it provides memory space for stationery and textbook.Especially, base plate 13 is provided with one or more grooves or layout 14 suitably, is used to store pen, pencil, calculator or analog.

Lid 8 and base plate 13 suit to be made by polypropylene, polyethylene or other appropriate plastic material of die casting.The diagonal angle reinforcement forms in the inside of lid 8.The edge that exposes of these reinforcements is located substantially in the common plane and provides support for the book cover or the scratch pad (not shown) back side, wherein, book or scratch pad can remain on a suitable reading angle by lid, and they can be contained in the tubular cavity 11 that the concentric cylindrical edge by lid and base plate partly forms than low edge, these marginal portions are center (Fig. 3) with hinge axis 10.The disk 9 (Fig. 1 and 2) of eccentric rotary can rotate backward, so that the contact point at base plate rear portion is extended beyond hinge axis 10 and prevents portable desk overturning thus.

The steel bar 3 in flat-top district is fixed on the left side and the right side edge of lid 8, and the arm that extends internally or travelling arm 4 magnetically are adsorbed on the steel bar in the cantilever beam mode with its outer end shown in Fig. 1,2 and 4.These arms or travelling arm can be made of plastics or metal, and as the clearest illustrating among Fig. 2,5 and 6, they comprise an elongated window portion 5, elongated hole or groove can with delegation's text alignment of textbook or scratch pad, travelling arm 4 leans against on this textbook or the scratch pad.Selectively, lens or filter (not shown) can be installed in groove or the hole 5, so that emphasize outstanding delegation literal, and the length of each travelling arm, especially 5 the edge in the hole, if like engraving scale so that measure.As being clearly shown that in Fig. 5 and 6, travelling arm 4 is prebuckling (and being deformable), can meet with the profile phase of the expansion page or leaf of the book that is supported by lid 8 to guarantee them.

As shown in 2, supporting plate 12 can slide on base plate 13 and a writing surface is provided as figure.When supporting plate 12 was pushed ahead as shown in fig. 1, its forward edge extended in the cavity 11 and guarantees that its relative Bian Buhui covers hole 1.Then box can be as shown in Figure 3 close so that carry.At the extended position shown in Fig. 2, the forward position of supporting plate 12 (just the edge shown in the lower left quarter) in the drawings and base plate 13 contact by thereon horizontal supporting face (not shown) or almost contact.The writing surface of a stable support is provided by this way.

As shown in FIG. 4, by the shaped steel in embedding lid 8 lateral edges of certain-length bonding jumper 3 is set.This shaped steel comprises the wall of facing 17, and when as shown in Figure 3 when box is closed, wall 17 has constituted the stop retainer belt that is used for the travelling arm of (with 4 ' illustrate) under the state of packing into.

Referring to Fig. 4,5 and 6, the support section of each travelling arm 4 has two permanent magnets 15, and they inserted the hole that forms therein, and provides a kind of and be frictionally engaged reliably (Fig. 4) bar 3 or wall 16.For travelling arm 4 can be moved along bar 3 or wall 16, and can adjust their angles with respect to these, upstanding portion 16 (Fig. 5 and 6) is formed in the perimeter and can be caught at an easy rate between user's thumb and forefinger.

The make things convenient for support of above-mentioned desk by providing one to be used for textbook is again the user simultaneously Provide a writing surface to help the user and finished school work, university's homework and family Operation.

Relevant advantage is, the user by the lid that lifts with make its chaff interference of diverting one's attention every Open. The Portable writing frame provides instant working environment for the user, and this device The folding portable characteristic has guaranteed can not accumulate in a jumble.

Claims

1. a portable desk or little stand, comprise the base plate (13) hinged with a lid that can raise (8), described lid in use is in the position of its rising, so that support books that launch, scratchpad or paper, and described lid has at least one arm that extends inward (4) that overhangs out from its edge, described arm in use launches to extend on the page or leaf at one of books or scratchpad or paper, and above-mentioned arm (4) magnetically is adsorbed on the above-mentioned edge, therefore in use above-mentioned arm can slide along above-mentioned edge and can be moved into not concordant with horizontal line so that align with literal line on the described page or leaf.

2. portable desk as claimed in claim 1 or little stand is characterized in that, when its when above-mentioned expansion page or leaf lifts, above-mentioned arm (4) can separate with above-mentioned edge.

3. portable desk as claimed in claim 1 or little stand is characterized in that, above-mentioned arm (4) magnetically is fixed on one on the steel bar (3) of above-mentioned edge extension.

4. portable desk according to claim 1 or little stand is characterized in that, above-mentioned arm (4) is to be made of deformable elastomeric material, and in use are consistent with above-mentioned expansion page or leaf shape at least in part.

5. portable desk according to claim 4 or little stand is characterized in that, above-mentioned arm (4) is towards the direction bending of above-mentioned lid (8), so as in use at least its free-ended part lean against on the above-mentioned expansion page or leaf.

6. each described portable desk or little stand in requiring according to aforesaid right, it is characterized in that, above-mentioned arm (4) overhangs out from a lateral edges of lid (8), and the elongated window portion (5) with a longitudinal extension, it in use aligns with the delegation or the multirow literal of above-mentioned books, scratchpad or paper.

7. require each described portable desk or little stand among the 1-5 according to aforesaid right, it is characterized in that above-mentioned hinged lid (8) and base plate (13) have been formed a clam shell box.

8. require each described portable desk or little stand among the 1-5 according to aforesaid right, it is characterized in that, two such arms (4) are arrived on the opposed side edge of lid (8) by cantilever.

9. require each described portable desk or little stand among the 1-5 according to aforesaid right, it is characterized in that, also comprise a writing surface that is associated with above-mentioned base plate.

10. portable desk according to claim 9 or little stand is characterized in that, a pallet part (12) separates with base plate (13) but can be stored within the base plate (13) and can stretch out from above-mentioned base plate, and this supporting plate provides above-mentioned writing surface.

11. portable desk according to claim 10 or little stand, it is characterized in that, one cavity or groove (11) are formed on described hinge area, and to be arranged to according to above-mentioned pallet part be to stretch or be retracted into the above-mentioned base plate (13) and the feather edge of books, scratchpad or the paper of holding and expanding or the leading edge of above-mentioned pallet part (12) from above-mentioned base plate (13).

12. require each described portable desk or little stand among the 1-5, it is characterized in that the mating holes (2,1) that forms limits one and carries handle in above-mentioned lid (8) and base plate (13) according to aforesaid right.