US1520472A - Display device - Google Patents

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Dec. 23, 1924. 1,520,472

A. E. HURST DISPLAY DEVICE Filed March 25, 1924 Patented li es.

lfiizaiiz FF 1 OE ALBERT E. HURST, OF NEW YORK, N. '51, ASSIGNOR TO TEXTILE PUBLISHING COM- PANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed March 25, 192 2.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. HURs'r, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device intended to be used for the display of advertising matter, ornamental signs, show cards and the like, in stores or in store windows, and has for its object to provide an adjustable support or base for printed advertising or display matter which will be so constructed that it may be used in show windows of varying size.

A further object of this invention is to provide a plurality of units provided with means for detachably uniting them together to form various sizes and arrangements of show card supports to suit the requirements of different stores and shops and the show windows in which said articles are to be used.

I accomplish these and other objects by the utilization of a plurality of fiat sections which are arranged to overlap one another to any required extent, and which may be secured together in such overlapped position to form a continuous supporting strip.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plurality of card-supporting units connected together to form a continuous support;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same, showing a portion of the display card attached to the face of the support;

Figure 3 is a plan view of a portion of the construction disclosed in Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4L l of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows; and

Figure 5 is a sectional View on the line 55 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Throughout the various views of the drawing, similar reference characters designate similar parts.

In carrying out my invention I utilize a plurality of sections of flat, thin and compa *atively inflexible material such as metal, wood, fibre board or the like, and detachably connect the same together as may be Serial No. 701,650.

required to form a continuous strip of such length as may be required to fit a store window or within a store where a sign or display card may be required. Display arrangements of the character referred to herein are usually located within the store window and suspended from the upper part of the window.

At 1 and 2 are shown the end sections, which may consist, as hereinbefore set forth, of fiat sections of metal or the like. As these sections 1 and 2 constitute the ends of a strip, I find it desirable to provide them with downwardly extending extensions or legs 3 which provide ornamental terminations for the strips.

At 4 is disclosed a line of perforations which extends longitudinally of the sections 1 and 2. A row of said perforations is located adjacent to each of the longitudinal edges of the sections. Central sections are shown at and as many of these sections 5 may be used as are required to form a continuous strip of the desired length. Each of the sections 5 is provided with the lines of perforations 4 located adjacent to and extending parallel with its longitudinal edges.

To form a continuous display card supporting member, the various sections 1, 2 and 5 are placed together and overlapped to the required extent to form a strip of the desired length. Bolts or screws 6 are passed through the registering perforations in the overlapped portions of the various sections,

thus joining the same together.

Either one or both faces of the strip thus provided may be covered by a card-board display strip 7, which may be secured to the faces of the supporting strip in any suitable manner, and which I have shown secured thereto by means of spring clips 8. These C1138 are shown to slide over the edges of the sections 1, 2 and 5, but if desired they may be fixed to the sections or they can be bent out of the metal which forms the sections.

The display card or sheet 7 is preferably formed of a single or continuous piece of cardboard, but a number of sections of card-board may be, if desired, secured along the supporting strip in lieu of a single section so long as they extend over and conceal the overlapped joints of the various sections 2 and 5.

In order that the supporting strip may beak easily suspended Within a Window, I pron vide the various sections or units 1, 2 and 5 with lugs 9 Which extend outwardly from the 'top'e'dges'of the sections, and which are perforated as at 10 to form suspending loops. 1 do not restrict myself, however, to this form of suspending loop, and can sus- 'pend or support the strip in any desired way.

Having described my invention, What I clziimxisp- V A display device comprising a plurality of flat plates similar in construction and outline so thatany number of said'plates may be joined together and held in overlapped I position to provide a continuous strip, means for detachably holding said ilates in overlapped relationship, means for idjusting theqpositions of the plates rela- Qive to one another, said adjusting means comprising a plurality of perforations formed in each plate near its edges and means for entering said perforations and cletachably uniting the plates, a continuous flexible fiat strip of advertising or display matter adapted to be securedover the plates, said strip corresponding in shape to the joined plates whereby it completely covers one face of-thesarne, and clipsvfor detachablyholdingsaid strip in position over the plates. p v

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this QQd'day of March, 1924.

ALBERT E; miner.

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