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US4039082A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Multiple paper item holder

Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1975-06-09
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Granted: 1977-08-02
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Expires: 1995-06-09
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Abstract

Abstract A multiple-item holder for paper items, such as memos, and the like, intended to be supported on a substantially horizontal auxiliary underlying supporting surface (such as that of a desk, for example) and adapted to support in any of a plurality of selected positions from one to a large number of small paper items such as bills, memos, and the like, and in a conveniently arranged, segregated manner such as to facilitate the subsequent handling of the more important ones of said items on what might be termed a priority basis. The multiple-item holder consists of an upstanding portion and a plurality of spaced laterally directed arms, thus providing a very substantial measure of visibility and not obscuring a person's view and making it possible to magnetically (or otherwise) attach or engage any desired number of small clamping devices to any portion of the device and to clampingly engage corresponding paper items which will be supported at the selected locations. In a preferred arrangement, the device is so arranged that the lower portions of supported paper items will lie behind lower adjacent transverse arms of the device so as to avoid obscuring the top portion of each paper item and a title or designation marking which may be removably carried by any of the transverse arms at any desired location to indicate the nature of adjacent supported paper items and possibly the order of priority of the handling of same. In a preferred form, the paper-item-holding clamp means may be magnetically mountable on any ferromagnetic surface portion of the transverse arms, and the clamping jaws thereof provide for the easy clamping and unclamping of the paper items. Also, in a preferred form, the title or designation markings may be magnetically attached to the transverse arms at any desired location and in a manner which does not in any way interfere with the attachment at the same location of one or more of the paper-holding clamp devices. In one preferred form, the device is provided with a substantially non-tippable base member and means for supporting at least one tray or shelf (preferably more than one such tray or shelf) and also an open-topped cup-shaped receptacle to facilitate the storage of the numerous small desk top items customarily found on a desk, including writing instruments, erasers, paper clips, stapler, and the like. Also, in one preferred form, the device may be optionally provided with means for mounting a controllably removable and interchangeable visible display means, usually at the top thereof.

Inventors

  • 👤 George Ladinsky

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 10:11
CPC Classifications
A; A47; A47B; A47B63/00

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim 402 words
A multiple-paper-item holder comprising: a substantially non-tippable base member adapted to be supported by an underlying supporting structure; upstanding supporting framework means provided at the bottom with base-engaging means for attaching engagement with respect to said base member whereby to be firmly supported thereby, said supporting framework means comprising a pair of substantially rigid, upstanding rod-shaped members of substantially similar configuration but longitudinally spaced apart for longitudinal symmetrical spacing on each side of a central portion of said base member so as to extend upwardly therefrom on each side of a vertical centerline of said central portion of said base member; a plurality of substantially laterally directed, vertically spaced, transverse supporting arms for use in selectively mounting at desired locations with respect thereto any desired number of paper items; at least one controllably removably mountable clamp means including a controllably operable paper-item-engaging-and-disengaging clamp portion and a transverse supporting-arm-engaging mounting portion cooperable for controllably selectively placeable mounting engagement and effective attachment with respect to any selected portion of any of said transversely directed supporting arms for temporarily supporting and positioning a paper item in said clamp portion in depending relationship therebelow; said transverse supporting-arm-engaging mounting portion of each of said clamp means being of a magnetically mountable type comprising a magnetic mounting and attaching portion and wherein said transverse supporting arms have corresponding magnetic surface portions for magnetic attracting engagement therebetween whereby any of said clamp means may be magnetically mounted and supported in any selected location with respect to any portion of said magnetic surfaces of said transverse supporting arms; said pair of upstanding rod-shaped members of said supporting framework means being provided at successive upwardly spaced locations with a series of similarly displaced stepped portions whereby to cause each succeeding upwardly adjacent portion of the pair of rod-shaped members to lie in a progressively similarly displaced but substantially parallel, upwardly directed plane and wherein the depending relationship of paper items supported by said clamp means engaged and mounted with respect to each transverse supporting arm is such as to cause the depending lower portion of such a supported paper item to be positioned behind the next lower adjacent, transversely directed supported arm by reason of said sequential series of progressively displaced stepped portions of said pair of upwardly directed rod-shaped members of said supporting framework means to which each of said vertically displaced, transversely directed supporting arms is correspondingly attached, respectively.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 402 words
A multiple-paper-item holder comprising: a substantially non-tippable base member adapted to be supported by an underlying supporting structure; upstanding supporting framework means provided at the bottom with base-engaging means for attaching engagement with respect to said base member whereby to be firmly supported thereby, said supporting framework means comprising a pair of substantially rigid, upstanding rod-shaped members of substantially similar configuration but longitudinally spaced apart for longitudinal symmetrical spacing on each side of a central portion of said base member so as to extend upwardly therefrom on each side of a vertical centerline of said central portion of said base member; a plurality of substantially laterally directed, vertically spaced, transverse supporting arms for use in selectively mounting at desired locations with respect thereto any desired number of paper items; at least one controllably removably mountable clamp means including a controllably operable paper-item-engaging-and-disengaging clamp portion and a transverse supporting-arm-engaging mounting portion cooperable for controllably selectively placeable mounting engagement and effective attachment with respect to any selected portion of any of said transversely directed supporting arms for temporarily supporting and positioning a paper item in said clamp portion in depending relationship therebelow; said transverse supporting-arm-engaging mounting portion of each of said clamp means being of a magnetically mountable type comprising a magnetic mounting and attaching portion and wherein said transverse supporting arms have corresponding magnetic surface portions for magnetic attracting engagement therebetween whereby any of said clamp means may be magnetically mounted and supported in any selected location with respect to any portion of said magnetic surfaces of said transverse supporting arms; said pair of upstanding rod-shaped members of said supporting framework means being provided at successive upwardly spaced locations with a series of similarly displaced stepped portions whereby to cause each succeeding upwardly adjacent portion of the pair of rod-shaped members to lie in a progressively similarly displaced but substantially parallel, upwardly directed plane and wherein the depending relationship of paper items supported by said clamp means engaged and mounted with respect to each transverse supporting arm is such as to cause the depending lower portion of such a supported paper item to be positioned behind the next lower adjacent, transversely directed supported arm by reason of said sequential series of progressively displaced stepped portions of said pair of upwardly directed rod-shaped members of said supporting framework means to which each of said vertically displaced, transversely directed supporting arms is correspondingly attached, respectively.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 37 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 1, wherein lower portions of said upstanding framework means are provided with laterally directed shelf-mounting recess means receiving and mounting therein at least one horizontally longitudinally oriented object-supporting shelf means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 63 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 2, including quick connect and disconnect coupling means interpositioned between a lower part of said upstanding framework means immediately above said shelf-receiving recess means and the remaining upstanding portion of said framework means to permit the easy assembly of same together from an intially disassembled knocked-down, small-space-volume-utilizing shipping and storage condition into fully-assembled, upstanding operative condition.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 39 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 1, wherein lower portions of said upstanding framework means are provided with laterally directed shelf-mounting recess means receiving and mounting therein a plurality of vertically spaced, longitudinally horizontally oriented object-supporting shelf means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 46 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 4, including a centrally positioned, upwardly-open object receiver positionable on said base member at a substantially central location and extending upwardly in a longitudinally symmetrically positioned location with respect to said recess means movably carrying said object-supporting shelf means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 48 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 5, wherein said object-supporting shelf means is provided with vertical through-pass cut-out aperture means vertically receiving and allowing the passage vertically therethrough of said centrally symmetrically positioned, upwardly open object receiver when supported on a central portion of said base member.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 43 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 1, wherein said base member has a pair of longitudinally spaced framework attaching and engaging means for receiving attaching engagement with respect to mating attaching engaging means carried at the bottom of said upstanding framework means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 35 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 1, wherein said supporting frame-work means is provided with terminal ends effectively comprising visible display supporting means for mounting selected visible display means is a visibly observable position.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 51 words
A multiple-paper-item holder as defined in claim 8, including controllably removable and interchangeable visible display means and controllably manually fastenable and unfastenable/fastening means for fastening said visible display means and visible display mounting means in a selected upstanding visible display position and for controllably removing same or interchanging same when desired.

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USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows

Annuity Stage Window Opens Payment Deadline Surcharge Period Until Estimated Fee Status
3.5 Years (Year 4) 1980-08-01 1981-01-31 1981-08-02 $2000.00 Window Closed / Lapsed
7.5 Years (Year 8) 1984-08-01 1985-01-31 1985-08-02 $3760.00 Window Closed / Lapsed
11.5 Years (Year 12) 1988-08-01 1989-01-31 1989-08-02 $7700.00 Window Closed / Lapsed

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