Template for driver's dailey log book

• US 4,854,048 A
• Filed: 04/04/1988
• Issued: 08/08/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Benoit Goulet
• Original Assignee: Benoit Goulet
• Inventors: Goulet, Benoit
• Primary Examiner(s): Haroian, Harry N.
• Application Number:
  US07/177,103
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 33/443, 33/474, 33/562, 33/566, 33/563, 281/1, 116/235
• US Class Current: 33/443
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 9/007 Loose bookmarkers
• CPC Class Codes: B43L 13/20 Curve rulers or templets

Abstract

A template that facilitates record keeping by commercial bus and truck drivers. A plurality of parallel, elongate slots are formed in the template to guide the driver'"'"'s marking pen across a page in a log book having preprinted driving periods printed thereon. A larger, vertically extending window member at the right end of the template allows the driver to record total driving hours on the page. The template is clipped to the right end of the page in use and thus also provides a book mark function.

Claims

1. A template for daily log books used by commercial drivers, comprising:

a flat sheet material of predetermined composition;

said sheet material forming a top part of said template;

said top part having a width substantially equal to the width of a page in a driver'"'"'s daily log book;

a plurality of parallel, elongate slot members formed in said top part for guiding a marking instrument;

said slot members having a length substantially equal to the width of the top part;

a vertically extending window means disposed in orthogonal relation to said elongate slot members;

each of said elongate slot members having a common height dimension sufficient to receive the distal free end of a marking instrument so that said marking instrument free end is constrained by a slot member within which it is inserted to follow a linear path of travel over a page of said log book;

a second flat sheet material forming a bottom part of said template;

said top and bottom parts being integral to one another, and being joined at a sharp return bend.

2. The template of claim 1, wherein said top and bottom parts of said sheet material abut one another when the template is disengaged from a log book page, and wherein said top and bottom parts of said sheet material clampingly engage at least one log book page slidably inserted therebetween.

3. The template of claim 2, wherein said elongate sheet material and said window means are formed in the top part of said template.

4. The template of claim 3, wherein said elongate slot members have a common length.

5. The template of claim 4, wherein said elongate slot members are equidistantly and vertically spaced from one another.

6. The template of claim 5, wherein said sheet material is substantially transparent.

7. The template of claim 6, wherein said top part of said template has a width substantially equal to the width of a page in a log book of a preselected type.

8. The template of claim 7, wherein said sharp return bend is formed at a right end of said template to facilitate its attachment to the right edge of at least one page of a log book.

9. The template of claim 8, wherein said window means is formed in the top part of said template intermediate the common terminus of the elongate slot members and said return bend.

10. The template of claim 9, wherein the width dimension of said window means is sufficiently wide to enable a driver to record double digit information such as total hours driven on a page of said log book, said window means constraining the driver to record the information in a preselected space of said log book that is framed by said window means.

11. The template of claim 10, wherein said template has a rectangular configuration.

12. The template of claim 11, wherein said template is formed of a flexible plastic material.

13. A template, comprising:

a first flat sheet material means having a width substantially equal to the width of a page of a log book;

a second flat sheet material means having a width no greater than the width of said first sheet material means;

said first sheet material means being disposed in overlying relation to a log book page when the template is disposed in an operative configuration;

said second sheet material means being disposed in underlying relation to a log book page when the template is disposed in an operative configuration;

said first and second sheet material means being integrally formed with one another at a sharp return bend so that at least one page of a log book is slidably insertable between said first and second sheet material means and is clampingly engaged therebetween when so inserted so that said template is substantially immovable when clamped to at least one page of a log book;

a plurality of substantially parallel, equidistantly spaced elongate slot members having a common extent being formed in said first sheet material means; and

a vertically extending window means formed in said first sheet material means intermediate a common terminus of said elongate slot members and said return bend.

14. The template of claim 13, where said template is formed of a flexible, clear plastic material.