US1731692A

US1731692A - Card-holding device

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Publication number: US1731692A
Application number: US94139A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jr Fred Weindel
Original assignee: L F GRAMMES AND SONS Inc
Current assignee: L F GRAMMES AND SONS Inc
Priority date: 1926-03-12
Filing date: 1926-03-12
Publication date: 1929-10-15
Anticipated expiration: 1946-10-15

Description

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VIC E Illl HUM MMU 1M IsJ"Il ul MH I A Patented Oct. 15, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRED WEINDEL, JB., OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR rlO L. F. GrBfAllCllMESy & SONS, INC., OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND CARD-HOLDING DEVICE Application led. 'March 12, 1926. Serial No. 94,139.`

This invention relates to devices for clamp ingly holding cards, such for example as menus or advertising sheets, in vertical position so that their opposite sides are simultaneously displayed for ready reading at tables and counters of restaurants or stores.

In connection with a device of the kind referred to, I seek to obtain the advantages both of lightness and economy of manufacture attendant upon construction from sheet material, and notwithstanding structural lightness, to insure, on the one hand, stability of the device as a whole against being easily upset; but, on the other hand, to aord the card firm support against the possibility of displacement from a true vertical position relative to the holder.

In the drawings Fig. I is a perspective view of a card holding device conveniently embodying my invention, and showing the manner in which itis used.

Fig. II is a transverse sectional view of the same; and,

Fig. III, a similar view of an alternative form of my invention.

The structure of Figs. I and II, involves counterpart components 5, 6 that are fashioned from sheet material, preferably sheet metal of uniform width throughout. These components 5, 6 each afford a spring clamping jaw 7 of angular formation, and a short vertical segment 8 beneath said jaw with an outwardly extending lateral flange 9. In assembling, the components 5, 6 are placed back to back so that their

vertical segments

8, 8 are brought into abutting relation, whereupon they are permanently secured together preferably by means of tubular rivets such as shown at 10, 10, through said vertical segments. By virtue of alignment as a result of assembling of the parts 5, 6 as just described, the

flanges

9, 9 jointly constitute an extended base for supporting the device with ample stability against being easily upset. For convenience of ready insertion of a card or sheet 11 between them after the manner illustrated in Fig. I, the upper ends of the

clamping jaws

7, 7 are rounded as at 12, 12. In this connection it is to be particularly noted that at the region of mergence with the

clamping jaws

7, 7 the

segments

8, 8 are curved somewhat with resulting provision of a crotch or wedgelike]l seat ltotake the bottom edge of the car 1 The alternative construction of Fig. III is similar to the first described form of my invention in that it is characterized by the

opposing clamping jaws

7, 7, and the vertical web afforded by the

abutting segments

8, 8 intermediate the jaws and the

lateral base flanges

9, 9. However, in this instance, the device is made from a single strip of sheet metal instead of two as before, the method of bending being obvious from the illustration and entailing doubling or retroverting of the metal upon itself throughout the extent of the

base flanges

9, 9. In the latter construction, riveting may be entirely dispensed with as sufficient reliance may be placed upon the springiness and set of the metal to hold the device to the intended configuration.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that the card holding device of my invention is neat and attractive in appearance, and adapts itself to ready and economic manufacture. Moreover, notwithstanding its lightness, the device is quite stable against being easily upset, and, by reason of its capacityY to firmly engage the display card at spaced intervals, insures maintenance of the latter against displacement from true upright position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture a holding device for supporting a menu card in true vertical position constructed of sheet material to provide opposed upwardly-directed angular-form spring-clamp jaws with the entrant ends in cooperative engagement and an intervening wedge-like seat afforded by convergently rounding of the jaws at their lower parts into mutually abutting sections, said sections terminating in co-planar base flanges that project laterally outward in reverse directions from the longitudinal median of the device.

2. As a new article of manufacture a holding device for supporting a menu card in true vertical position constructed of a single strip of sheet material to provide opposed angular form spring-clamp jaws with the entrant ends in cooperative engagement and to grip the card at a distance remote from a wedgelike seat for its lower edge afforded by c0nvergently rounding of the jaws at the bottom, and co-planar base flanges formed by retroversions in the strip material, said ilanges projecting laterally outward from the longitudinal median of the device at a short distance below the Clamp jaws with integral vertical abutment segments intermediate the flange and jaw portions, said abutment seotions being permanently Connected by tubular rivets.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Allentown, Pa., this 8th daj of March, 1926.

FRED WEINDEL, JR.