US1011447A - Display device. - Google Patents

Description

H. W. KNAUTZ.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED rmm, 1911.

1,011,447. Ptented Dec.12,191 1.

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HENRY w. KNAUIZ, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. KNAUTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display .Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in display devices and more specifically to that class thereof which are designed for employment especially in the displaying of cloth samples or other similar articles which may be secured or mounted upon cards for purposes of display. 1

The object of my invention is the production of a display device of the character mentioned in which the display cards will be so connected or bound together as to be adapted to be readily and easily disconnected or interchanged if desired.

A further object is the provision of a display device of the character mentioned which will be 'of durable and economical construct-ion and of great efliciency in use.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

My invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and in which,

Figure 1 is a plan View of a display device embodying my invention. the same being shown in open condition, Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 00-00. of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the sections of the device detached, and Fig. 4 is a section taken on line g of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawing 1 indicates the display cards upon which the samples or other articles are suit-ably arranged and secured for display. The cards 1 are preferably of rectangular form, and all are of substantially the same dimensions.

Secured to the rearward edge 2 of each of the cards 1 is a narrow elongated strip 3, the same being hingedly secured thereto by means of a hinged strip 4 formed preferably of fabric. The strip 3 is of a length substantially equal to that of the edge 2 and the same is formed of a suit-able material possessing rigidity, such for example as card board, which is preferably employed. Ar-

ranged upon each of the cards 1 at the respective extremities of the edge 2 thereof are inwardly opening pockets 5, the same being formed preferably integrally with the hinged members 4. In order to accommodate said pockets the upper and lower edges of each of said cards 1 are notched as at 6, such provision, as will be observed, affording clearance for the adjacent end walls of said pockets. Said pockets are of a width substantially equal to that of the strips 3, the latter being adapted to snugly engage the same.

With-the arrangement as set forth it is apparent that any number of cards 1 may be connected together in book form, the connection of adjacent of said cards being effected by engaging the extremities of the strip 3 on an upper card with the pockets 5 of a lower one, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, it being clear, that in effecting such engagement it is necessary to buckle the strip 3 in order to reduce the length thereof sufficient to permit of its extremities engaging said pockets. Upon releasing the strip after buckling and with its extremities registering with the pockets 5, said extremities, upon the strip, assuming its normal condition, will be forced into engagement with said pockets. Then the upper card is laid over the lower one, member 4 bending to permit this, and the pocket on the under side of said upper card is exposed for the reception of the strip of the next upper card. Thus it will be seen that any number of display cards may be connected together in book form with ease and expedition. Also said cards after being connected may be readily and quickly interchanged or re-arranged if desired so as to produce a better arrangement of the samples or articles carried thereby for displaying purposes.

A display device of a construction as described is simple and economical and hence may be manufactured at a low cost.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of my inventionI do not wish to be limited thereto but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention what I deem as new and desire to secure by Letters Patented Dec. 12, 1911.. Application filed February 6, 1911. Serial No. 606,818.

ably secured to each of said cards; and end with a strip adapted to engage a pocket means on each of said cards for detachably engaging another card, substantially as deengaging the strip on another card, subscribed.

stantially as described.

2. A display device comprising a plurality i name to this specification in the presence of separate cards, ezilch providel with transof two subscribing witnesses.

versely alining notc es in its e ges near one T T end; and flexible strips each provided at HELRY KBAUTZ' opposite sides at one end with inwardly opening pockets adapted to engage the notches and edges of a card and at the other WVitnesses:

HELEN F. LILLIs, JOSHUA R. H. Porrs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 15

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