EP0930031A1 - Lesevorrichtung für Personen in Rückenlage - Google Patents

Lesevorrichtung für Personen in Rückenlage Download PDF

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EP0930031A1
EP0930031A1 EP99460004A EP99460004A EP0930031A1 EP 0930031 A1 EP0930031 A1 EP 0930031A1 EP 99460004 A EP99460004 A EP 99460004A EP 99460004 A EP99460004 A EP 99460004A EP 0930031 A1 EP0930031 A1 EP 0930031A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B23/00—Bed-tables; Trays; Reading-racks; Book-rests, i.e. items used in combination with something else
    • A47B23/007—Overhead reading-racks or book-rests

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  • the present invention relates to a device allowing a person lying on your back reading a book, magazine, magazine or even a newspaper open above it without having to hold it in your hand, open book or magazine being placed beyond the vertical, ie the side to be read inclined downwards.
  • the device allows the person to turn the page in a very simple way and, once tour, keep it in the book or magazine plan without having to use the hands, which can then be extended along the body. This operation can be done very easily using both hands, but it can be done also using one hand.
  • the present invention aims in particular to overcome these different disadvantages. More specifically, the invention aims to provide a device simple and inexpensive to manufacture, in which a simple insertion is made, single hand, a book, magazine or newspaper that can be read in position lying down, without having to hold it in your hand, while the book, the magazine or the newspaper is tilted beyond the vertical.
  • a second objective of the invention is to hold open in a plane tilted beyond the vertical the book to the page you want to read.
  • a third objective is to make it easy, if necessary by operating with a one hand, turning the page.
  • a fourth objective is that the same device makes it possible to read a newspaper, also lying down, without having to hold it in your hand.
  • a fifth objective is to avoid disturbing the person sleeping next door of the reader by the lighting necessary for the latter.
  • a sixth objective of the invention is to make the device adaptable to existing bed tables or compatible with bed tables used for others otherwise.
  • a rule is applied in front of the open pages. approximately towards the middle of the book in height, this strip being maintained pressed against said plates.
  • the plates are made of magnetic material, for example made of iron, and the strip is fitted with magnets at each of its ends.
  • the strip is made of transparent material, for example plastic, which allows you to read through it without having to move it while reading the same page.
  • a second strip identical to the one used is used. first to maintain the pages of a magazine or newspaper.
  • one or more thickness boards are slid fits between book or magazine and backplate to hold it pressed against the plates located at the front.
  • two independent magnets are applied to the plates magnetic when reading a newspaper to keep it in place.
  • the horizontal axis on which the device is fixed is supported by a leg fitted with casters.
  • the frame supporting the magnetic plates is fixed directly on the top of a bed table.
  • the basic element is a frame 3 of wood, for example, or of plastic or in any other suitable material, consisting of three uprights, a horizontal 3.1 and two 3.2 and 3.3 respectively to the left and to the right and perpendicular to the previous.
  • the thickness of this frame is three to four centimeters so that can place a book in its thickness.
  • On this frame we fix by gluing or screwing two iron plates 4 and 5 from seven to ten tenths of a millimeter thick.
  • These plates can also be made of plastic material rigid including magnetic particles, or any other material having similar stiffness and magnetic properties. They are placed respectively on the left and right part of the frame so as to leave free a slot 6 of the order from one to two centimeters between them two. If necessary, to stiffen the plates 4 and 5, the upper borders can be folded back on themselves and opposite the say plates.
  • the entire frame 3 thus formed is fixed, in a way that will indicated below, against a plate 2 which can be a bed table like those usually used in hospitals and clinics. Plate 2 can also constitute the table itself dedicated specifically to the book support.
  • a strip 11 horizontally towards the middle of the book.
  • This strip 11 can be made of wood, metal or, preferably, transparent material, plastic or glass for example.
  • This strip 11 is held pressed against the pages of the book by two magnets permanent 12 and 13 fixed by gluing or embedding at each of its ends and which are attracted by the two magnetic plates 4 and 5.
  • the surface of the magnets 12 and 13 is coated opposite the plates 4 and 5 respectively, a varnish or any other protection which prevents scratching with the along the surface of plates 4 and 5 when magnets 12 and 13 are slid over said plates.
  • n boards 15 used separately or placed one on the other so that their combination makes it possible to adjust the total thickness of the shim thus formed and to press the book 7 firmly against the plates 4 and 5.
  • For two boards these figures are respectively 0.5 and 0.25.
  • the plates 15 which are not used can be stored in the space 9 on the left or 10 on the right of the book 7.
  • the material of the boards can be wood, hollow plastic, expanded polystyrene covered or not with a surface more hard or any other suitable material.
  • Another advantage of the boards 15 is to allow fixing by wedging between plates 4 and 5 and plate 2 the book 7 in height along the slot 6, so as to place it at eye level when the book is small, pocket book for example, and you don't want to change the height of the entire device 1 relative to the reader.
  • the present device 1 can also be used to read magazines or magazines in the same way as books.
  • the interior width of the frame must be 3 either at least equal to that of the fully deployed journal, or approximately 46 centimeters for almost all magazines on the market.
  • the strip 11 may not exceed the width of the pages of the magazine.
  • Magnets 12 and 13 if they are strong enough, can remain fixed on plates 4 and 5 respectively, even above a thickness of several tens of pages one to two millimeters.
  • a second strip 11 is advantageously used placed towards the top of the magazine, it allows to maintain the whole of the two pages deployed well glued to plates 4 and 5.
  • the device 1 also makes it possible to comfortably read a newspaper 16. In this case, it is simply place in front of plates 4 and 5 and hold it with two strips 11 one placed upwards and the other downwards of plates 4 and 5.
  • one or two independent magnets are also used 17 additional analogous to those used in magnetic boards to prevent the newspaper from slipping, since it is not necessarily tackled by strips 11 against plates 4 and 5.
  • the device 1 is usable by a person lying on a bed or sofa, it is necessary let him be placed above her.
  • a dedicated device which conventionally comprises a foot forming a rectangle equipped with four castors and a vertical rod starting from the middle of one of the short sides of the rectangle extended by a rod 25 folded horizontally above the rectangle.
  • the support plate of the reading device can be more or less inclined by rotation around the horizontal rod 25.
  • the height of the table being adjustable for adapt to the height of the bed or sofa. This adaptation is done, as in a classic bed table, by sliding two tubes one inside the other, the first is secured to the base on casters, the second to the horizontal rod 25 supporting the reading device 1.
  • the reading device 1 can also be permanently fixed on the side opposite the bed table in relation to the horizontal axis which supports it.
  • We use for this all suitable means of fixing for example studs glued or screwed on one side to the plate 2 and the other on the back of the bed table top. In this case it is necessary that the fixing handle which blocks rotation about said horizontal axis is placed outside the volume located between the bed table top and the plate 2.
  • this device To be able to read comfortably in bed using this device, it light up the open pages of the book. We can do it conventionally by using an ordinary bedside lamp placed near the head of the bed or couch behind the reader's very head. If you don't want to disturb the person lying next to you, you can use various lamps whose light field is limited to the surface of the book to be read: it can conventionally be a lamp bedside table with a converging lens which provides a light beam approximately parallel or a lamp as used in pleasure boats for read the cards, it is fixed either on the bedside table, or on the plate 2 itself or on the bed table top, by any suitable means, pliers for example. This can also be a headlamp attached to the reader head by straps elastic bands, or any other suitable means of lighting.

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EP19990460004 1998-01-20 1999-01-19 Lesevorrichtung für Personen in Rückenlage Expired - Lifetime EP0930031B1 (de)

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FR9800533A FR2773687B1 (fr) 1998-01-20 1998-01-20 Dispositif de lecture en position allongee sur le dos
FR9800533 1998-01-20

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FR2812178A1 (fr) 2000-07-25 2002-02-01 Pierre Jean Chibaudel Suspension de confort pour les deux avant-bras replies d'une personne couchee sur le dos

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FR414324A (fr) * 1909-04-02 1910-08-31 Alexander Trautweiler Dispositif applicable aux pupitres pour permettre de lire et de tourner les pages lorsque le livre est incliné vers le lecteur
FR1518012A (fr) * 1967-02-10 1968-03-22 Pupitre pour grabataire
FR2260068A1 (en) 1974-02-01 1975-08-29 Dca Food Ind Microwave system for reheating of food dishes - has envelope on frame forming microwave oven chamber
FR2312213A1 (fr) 1975-05-26 1976-12-24 Spruyt Charles Dispositif de lecture au lit
FR2465438A1 (fr) 1979-09-20 1981-03-27 Lantz Christian Dispositif pour faciliter la lecture en position couchee
FR2591447A1 (fr) * 1985-12-17 1987-06-19 Eck Alain Table de lecture supportant un livre s'adressant a toute personne valide ou invalide susceptible de lire
FR2660535A1 (fr) 1990-04-10 1991-10-11 Calais Michel Pupitre transparent pour lire au lit.
WO1993002592A1 (en) 1991-08-01 1993-02-18 Albertus Johannes Hoijtink Fixing device for a publication
EP0601510A1 (de) 1992-12-07 1994-06-15 Richard J. Howell Buchhalter zum Gebrauch mit einer Ständervorrichtung
FR2703888A1 (fr) 1993-04-14 1994-10-21 Goff J Le Pupitre pour la lecture ou l'écriture en position allongée.
EP0701786A1 (de) 1994-09-01 1996-03-20 Corsam Industries Inc. Einstellbarer Buchhalter

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR414324A (fr) * 1909-04-02 1910-08-31 Alexander Trautweiler Dispositif applicable aux pupitres pour permettre de lire et de tourner les pages lorsque le livre est incliné vers le lecteur
FR1518012A (fr) * 1967-02-10 1968-03-22 Pupitre pour grabataire
FR2260068A1 (en) 1974-02-01 1975-08-29 Dca Food Ind Microwave system for reheating of food dishes - has envelope on frame forming microwave oven chamber
FR2312213A1 (fr) 1975-05-26 1976-12-24 Spruyt Charles Dispositif de lecture au lit
FR2465438A1 (fr) 1979-09-20 1981-03-27 Lantz Christian Dispositif pour faciliter la lecture en position couchee
FR2591447A1 (fr) * 1985-12-17 1987-06-19 Eck Alain Table de lecture supportant un livre s'adressant a toute personne valide ou invalide susceptible de lire
FR2660535A1 (fr) 1990-04-10 1991-10-11 Calais Michel Pupitre transparent pour lire au lit.
WO1993002592A1 (en) 1991-08-01 1993-02-18 Albertus Johannes Hoijtink Fixing device for a publication
EP0601510A1 (de) 1992-12-07 1994-06-15 Richard J. Howell Buchhalter zum Gebrauch mit einer Ständervorrichtung
FR2703888A1 (fr) 1993-04-14 1994-10-21 Goff J Le Pupitre pour la lecture ou l'écriture en position allongée.
EP0701786A1 (de) 1994-09-01 1996-03-20 Corsam Industries Inc. Einstellbarer Buchhalter

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2812178A1 (fr) 2000-07-25 2002-02-01 Pierre Jean Chibaudel Suspension de confort pour les deux avant-bras replies d'une personne couchee sur le dos

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