US1489367A - Collapsible display - Google Patents

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April 8 1924.

. B. l. SUMMERS COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY Filed Jan. 5, 1923 62601 507727126715 Z Mg, m.

his Aforn ey Patented Apr. 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES 1,489,353 PATENT, OFFICE.

BELA I. SOMIVIERS, OF TUCKAHOE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SNYDER & BLACK, INCOR- POB-AIED, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY.

Application filed January 5,1923. Serial No. 610,816.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, BELA I. SOMMERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tuckahoe, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in C01- lapsible Displays, of whichthe following is a specification.

' This invention relates to collapsible displays and has for its object to provide a display of the character described, of simple construction and requiring a minimum of material.

With these objects in view and others which will appear later herein, my improved device comprises features illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the draw ing accompanying this specification, where m:-

Figure 1 is a perspective front view of my device erected in display position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the back of the device. Fig. 3 is a plan back view "of the blank laid out fiat. The figures of the, drawing are to substantially one scale. Preferably my improved display is fonned of one integral piece of sheet material, such as cardboard, cut to a suitable profile and provided with creases or scored lines, along which the several members are articulated in setting up the device.

The device may be arranged to simulate two cartons, boxes or the like, or two stacks thereof, angularly disposed to each other and, for purposes of illustration, I have chosen piles of boxes of cigars of wellknown rectangular contour. The blank from which said display is formed, Fig. 3, may be of general rectangular form, from the upper mid-portion of which a portion is cut away, thereby providing flaps or brace members adapted for meeting and interlocking when the device is erected in display position. Said blank is divided by score lines as 10 into opposite front members 2, 3, opposite inner end members 4, 5, inreaching from said front members and connected to each other along mid-score line 10 and opposite top members 6, 7, upreaching from said front members, respectively, all. preferably of rectangular contour. 1nreaching from said top members 6, 7, are opposite brace members 11, 12, each preferably having a width less than the height of either of the front members 2, 3 and having a height equal to the height of one of. the top members 6, 7. Said brace members are separated from their contiguous end members {1, 5 by cuts 1O", 10", respectively. Projectmg upwardly from the top edges of said brace members are .means adapted for in-' terlocking when the device is folded. Said means may comprise hook members 13, 14. It will be understood that the height of member 6 is equal to the width of member 4 so that when the device is folded for erection the adjoining edges of those members are coextensive.

In some cases it is desirable to provide additional members 15, 16 extending up wardly from , members 6, 7 and of equal length and width therewith, respectively, representing cover members of an open box, when the device is in display condition. For supporting said cover members when erected, interlocking means are provided pro- 'ecting from the inner, edges of said memers 15,16, and said means may comprise hook members 17 18, respectively, similar to hook members 13, 14. I I

The device is erected as follows: Assuming fronts 2, 3 to be held vertically, tops 6, 7 are bent backwardly at right angles thereto, to horizontal positions, respectively, Fig. 1, and brace members 11, 12 are folded down at right angles to top members 6, 7, respectively. Then end members 4, 5 are folded forwardly along line 10 into about right angle relation, and front members 2, 3 are folded backwardly to bring brace members 11, 12behind and against end members 1, This brings hook members 13, 1 1 into contact, when they may be hooked together as shown in Fig. 2. While the interlocking of brace members 11, 12 behind and against end members 4, 5 is usually sufficient to maintain top membersG, 7 in position normal to the vertical walls of the device, it will be noted that edges 10", 10 of brace members 11, 12 abut against the inside of members 2, 3, respectively, thereby providing further means for maintaining the top members in position.

If the device is provided with cover members 15, 16, said members are folded upwardly at right angles to top members 6, 7, respectively, and hook members 17, 18 are bent backwardly at right angles to their respective cover members and interlocked as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be observed that my improved device, while presenting in front view an ap pearance of two complete boxes or stacks of boxes, entirely dispenses with outer end members and bottom and back members, while the only place where two thicknesses of material are employed is in the overlapping of the relatively small area of the brace members on the end members, respectively.

I claim: 7

1. A collapsible display representing two boxes or stacks of boxes angularly adjoining, including in combination two front members, two end members articulated to the ends of said front members respectively and articulated to each other, two top members articulated to 'theftop edges of said front members respectively and having one end of each coincident with the top edges of said end members, respectively, brace members articulated to the adjacent ends of said top members and folded therebelow respectively and behind said end members respectively, said brace .members being provided with means for mutually interlocking behind the line of articulation of said end members.

2. A collapsiblev display representing two boxes or stacks of boxes angularly adjoining, including in combination two front members, two end members articulated to the ends of said front members respectively and articulated to each other, two top members articulated to the top edges of said front members respectively and having one end of each coincident with the top edges of said end members respectively, brace members articulated to the adjacent ends of joining edges respectively with interlocking means.

l. A blank adapted for erection into a collapsible display including in combination two oppositely disposed front members connected by two intervening end members articulated thereto respectively and to each other, two top members articulated to the upper edges of said front members, brace members articulated to the infacing ends of said top members respectively, and adapted to fold therebelow and behind said end members respectively, said brace members being provided at their upper edges with interlocking means respectively.

5. A blank for a collapsible display according to claim 4 characterized by the fact that each of the top members has articulated to its upper edge a cover member and that said cover members are provided on their infa'cing edges with interlocking means.

In witness whereof, .I hereby aflix my signature this 4 day of January, 1923.

BELA I. SUMMERS.

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