US1467624A - Collapsible display card - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. 11, 1923.

UNITED STATES 1,467,624 PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HARLEY NASH, OF CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO LEE NASH, INC.,

0F NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY CARD.

Application tiled December 20, 1922. Serial No. 608,128.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that, I, JAMES H. NASH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Caldwell, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Display Cards, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a partcf the sanie.

The present invention relates to a display card which may be provided with printed matter, ictures, or packages attached thereto for advertising certain objects.

The bodies of such display cards are frequently made of large dimensions, which involve considerable expense in the packing and transportation of such display cards to the user.

The display card of the present invention consists of a single piece embracing a foldable screen, formed of side panels and :i middle panel, a top-plate or so-called arch connected to the middle panel of the screen, and Wings upon the ends of the top-piece adapted to engage the outer panels.

This construction is adapted to present most forcibl to the eye inscriptions or articles upon the front panels and upon the front of the top-piece or arch.

This effect is produced by the contrast of the front surfaces with a sunken back-plate, and this object is attained by foldingl the card upon suitable lines or creases to inge the parts together while permitting the folding of the entire device in a very compact manner.

The three panels serve to hold the card erect when set upon a. fiat surface, and supports the connected parts in a shape resembling an operi fireplace.

The different members of the card are joined by creases and thus hinged together so as to fold into a space which may equal only one-fourth the area of the card-body, thus greatly increasing its capacity for transportation.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawin Fig. 1 is a perspective-view of the entire display devices set up for use; Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 shows the body of the display card with dotted lines- 18 indicating the folds of the card, and full lines 19 indicating the cutting of the card to permit folding; Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the screen-panels folded for transportation, and the top-plate extended from the middle panel; Fig. 5 shows the panels of the screen folded, and the ends of the :ircli and all the parts folded upon the front olf the middle panel; Fig. 6 shows the opposite side of the package ready for transportation; Fig. 7 is a plan of the display card crected; and Fig. 8 is a cross-section on line 8-8 in Fig. 1.

The screen is shown with a middle panel 8, extension or side-panels 9 hinged to its edges, and terminal or front panels 10 jointed to the outer edges of the extension panels.

The top-plate 11, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, forms an upward extension of the middle panel, being hinged thereto by a leaf 12 which forms the roof of the part resemblin the fireplace.

T e wings 13 are jointed upon the ends of the top-plate, as indicated by dotted lines oi: creases 14, and the adjacent edges of the wings and terminal panels are provided with tongues 15 and slots 16, to engage one another and hold the entire structure erected.

When the display card is erected, the Wings connect with the upper ends of the terminal or front panels, the said wings having a length less than the combined width of the extension-panels, as shown in Fig. 3, so vthat when connected, as just stated, the top-plate 11, the panels 13 and the terminal or front leaves 10 are held in thc -same plane as the top-plate. The extension-panels 9, when the display card is erected, slope forwardly from the hinged leaf 8, as shown in Fig. 7, and form a recess resembling a fireplace.

Such slope is produced by making the leaf l2 of less width than the extensionpanels of the scren, as shown at the junction of these panels with the wing in Fig. 7, the lines representing the extension-panels, and the depth ofthe recess being determined by the breadth of the panel, as indicated at 12 in Fig. 7.

Fig. 3 shows the line upon which the parts may be folded to reduce the size of the entire card to that of the middle panel 8.

Fig. 4 shows the wings all folded upon the farther side of the middle leaf 8, so that they are covered thereby.

Fig. 5 shows the wings upon thc toppiece folded over upon its inner side, the group of parts thus being reduced to the width of the center panel and formed with hinge-joints at the dotted lines 17, upon which the parts may be folded, making the size of the entire group when folded the 'same as that of the middle panel.

This effect is produced by making the toppiece not more than three times the width of the center panel, thus permitting the wings upon the top-piece to be folded upon a line with the edges of that panel.

The top-plate may be properly termed an arch, as it spans the space between the terminal or front panels, as shown in Fig. 3; but it will be understood that the precise shape and proportions of this arch-piece are wholly immaterial, provided it has foldable wings to make a detachable Connection with the terminal panels and to fold upon the bod of the device, as shown in Fig. 5.

T e structure is shown embodying a screen of five panels, but those anels are combined with the arch above in such a manner as to form a design in which the individuality of the several panels is entirely lost.

The panels in this invention form frontplates, and a back-plate, and side-plates connecting the three, and such features are claimed herein to include the essential elements of the invention.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what I claim herein is:

1. A display card having a back-plate, side-plates, front-plates, and an arch all formed in one piece and shaped to connect the backlate with the middle of the arch and the ront-plates with the ends of the arch, the Whole being foldable into a one` piece packa e.

2. A disp ay card comprising a paneled screen formed with front-plate, a backplate, and side-plates projected from the back plate to the front plates, and an arch having a leaf connected with the back-plate, and wlngs hinged upon the ends of the arch, and provided with means for connecting the said wings to the front-plates.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand.

JAMES HARLEY NASH.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that the State of incorporation of the assignee in Letters Patent No. 1,467,6 granted September 11, 1923, upon the application of James Harle Nash, of Caldwell, New Jersey, for an improvement in Collapsible Display ards, was erroneously iven as Illinois, whereas said State should have been given as New York, as own by the records of assignments in this olice; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oce.

Signed and sealed this 4th day of December, A. D., 1923.

[SEAL] KARL FENNING,

Acting Uomrmasoner of Patents.

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