Looseleaf page lifter

Claim 1

A page lifting device for use with a looseleaf binder having front and back covers, binding rings and a ring base cover which comprises at least one pair of stiff wire loops rotatably mounted on the top of the ring base cover by a hinge means at or contiguous with the centerline of said ring base cover, said loops being mounted perpendicular to and surrounding at least one of the binding rings and being of sufficient height to freely pass over the binding rings; whereby on closing the looseleaf binder the outermost parts of said loops encounter the inside surfaces of the looseleaf binder's front and back covers, forcing said loops toward the center of said binder and thus forcing the sides of said loops to encounter the bottom edges of any pages contained in said binder, thereby forcing said pages to rise on the binding rings away from the ring base cover toward the uppermost part of said binding rings preventing the pages from being caught between the binding and the inside surfaces of the looseleaf binder's front and back covers, wherein the hinge means by which the stiff wire loops are attached to the top of the ring base cover comprises the ring base cover having two indentations formed in the surface thereof for each of the stiff wire loops, at least one end face of each of the indentations having a hole formed therein, and each of the stiff wire loops having its ends angled to lie parallel to the ring base cover; the indentations in said ring base cover and the holes in the faces thereof being located and being of sufficient size to allow the angled ends of the stiff wire loops to be placed therethrough, rotatably attaching the stiff wire loops to the ring base cover.