Abstract: According to one embodiment, a booklet page turning apparatus includes a guide member which is provided near a vacuum pad to freely project/retreat from a plane corresponding to the suction surface of the vacuum pad, the guide member moving integrally with the vacuum pad and coming into contact with a page of a booklet at the page turning position to regulate rising of the page.

Abstract: The invention relates to a page-turning device for turning over the pages of periodicals, newspapers etc., mainly for handicapped persons, as well as for turning over the pages of music note, which has a stand and actuating mechanism provided suitably with bobbin.The problem is solved according to the invention with a cord with releasable fastening fixed at least in one point suitably along the side-edge of pages arranged on stand, which cord led through eyelets formed on the side of the folding line in the direction of page-turning is interconnected with an actuating mechanism.The most important advantage of the solution according to the invention is found in that--in addition to its simple construction--it can be used even by patients suffering from serious locomotor disease with the aid of stand mounted on hospital bed and with actuating mechanism operated by nod of the head in extreme cases. Otherwise a time switch or any other control unit can be used for operation.

Abstract: A portable page-turning device having a plurality of rotatable drums, each drum having a filament wound therearound, each filament being attachable to a successive page to be turned, for turning, upon a proper signal, successive pages. The rotatable drums are biased and hold the filaments in tension up to a notch in a face plate. The filaments are loosely disposed from the faceplate to the pages to be turned to which they are attached. In the preferred embodiments a movable disengagement lever may trace out an angular path to allow the filaments to be serially released from the notches and provide a tension on the entire filament, turning any page thereattached.