DE388734C - Lectern for reading in any position, e.g. when sitting, standing, lying down or the like. - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN EMPIRE

ISSUED
ON JANUARY 24, 1924

. REICH PATENT OFFICE

PATENT LETTERING

CLASS 34 i GROUP (C32625Xj ₃₄ I)

. Addendum to patent 387312.

Patented in the German Empire on September 27, 1922. Longest duration: April 29, 1939.

The invention relates to improvements in the implementation of the main patent 387312 protected lectern and aims in particular to simplify and better use of it. First up here is the one so far for the setting a large steep slope used auxiliary support in elimination. On the other hand, the two are adjustable Side supports replaced by a single adjustable center support that stands for itself alone is able to use the desk in any inclined position between a horizontal and an almost vertical limit position. This adjustable center support is made according to the invention of a barbed web with a widened End part and a pawl, which depending on the desired inclination to the mentioned barbs. Bridge and

ao pawls can be rotated at one end. in one Guide slots of the pull-out handle stored, and both can when pulling out the same are folded over in the guide slots and in this position through

as a guide bracket for the handle will. In this way they in no way hinder the use of the desk Read with to hold. pulled out handles. On the other hand, this support device allows also a practical as well as safe setting of any desired inclination for the desk by using any steeper setting by simply turning the desk board around its standing edge, with the support pawl adjusts itself in the corresponding barb and each less steep Position is achieved by slackening the desk board with the latch raised.

An embodiment of the subject matter of the invention is shown in the drawing. . Fig. Ι shows this on a pad resting desk in a front view,

Fig. 2 is a middle cross-section to Fig. Ι and

Fig. 3 illustrates a rear view of the desk with the handle extended and in same folded support parts.

The desk consists of a frame board a with a hinge b for placing reading material. The two recesses 3; are, as can be seen from Fig. 3, framed on three sides with guide strips 2 for inserting photographs or the like. The central web a 'of the frame α has a guide slot a ″ in which a guide tab g attached to the handle / is appropriately guided with the ends pulled off on the other side of the desk board. In addition, the handle Z also engages through a bracket £ attached to the bottom of the desk board so as a hinged clip is secured in every direction. q prevented, similarly to the main

patent, the falling of the book χ as well as the turning of loose sheets of paper, The handle / finally has a groove / 'in its back, in which' a latch I " and a support u are rotatably mounted with one end each. The support * has any number of barbs ν and a widened end part u '.

In use, the reading material, e.g. B. a book x, on the hinge b

> o and secured by folding down the bracket g. The desk can now either be placed on a table or the like or carried freely by its handles. In the former case, the handle / pushed upward, the support u and the jack / "the desired inclination can be adjusted accordingly. In the latter case, however, the handle / down is led out of the panels after jack /" and support u were folded up into the groove V of the handle, in which they are held back by the guide bracket p .

As can be seen, these mean improvements

a significant simplification and as better practical use over that described in the main patent Execution.

Claims (1)

Patent claim: Lectern according to patent 387312, characterized by the use of a support device consisting of a barbed (v) support (u) and a pawl (/ ''), which two parts at one end in a groove (/ ') in the extendable Handgrips (Z) are stored in such a way that the pawl (/ ") is supported on a correspondingly located barb (v) of the support (u) for the purpose of setting any inclination and that for the use of the handle (J) to hold the book Both support parts are folded over in the groove (/ ') of the handle (I) and held in 45' in this position by a guide bracket (ρ) for the handle (I) . Fig.