US1767745A - Display device - Google Patents

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June 24, 1930. z w, my 1,767,745

DISPLAY DEVICE Filed May 16, 1928 AT ORNEY- vention.

Patented June 24, 1230 UNETE ZENO W. DAY, OF NEVJARK, JERSEY.

Y DISPLAY DEVICE Application filed May 16, 1928. Serial No. 278,160.

This invention relates to an improved display device to exhibit sheets and cards or merchandise and is designed to replace wooden cork and similar boards which require the use of thumb tacks for securing the articles to them.

In the case of wooden or cork board devices it usually requires considerable pressure to seat the thumb tacks or pins and in addition to this cork board is expensive. The boards soon show the effects of repeated use as tacks are driven in and pulled out and present a rough appearance.

The present invention provides a board of smooth appearance that is perforated over practically the whole surface to be used and which receives clips that are readily inserted and removed into and from the perforations in the plate. The plate is usually metal and I can use a metal plate with holes punched in it or a screen of fairly stiff wire althouglra board of wood or cardboard can be employed in some instances. In the latter case the openings to receive the clips are recesses instead of perforations when the board is of considerable thickness, and the term openings as used herein refers to either perforations or recesses.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a face view of a device embodying my in- Figure 2 is a side view of the article shown in Figure 1. 'Figure 3 is a perspective view of a part of the article shown in Figure l'but on an enlarged. scale and showing a clip about to be inserted and one already in place. Figure t is a detail perspective, of a device in the form of a screen, Figures 5, (i, and 7 are views of various forms of clips to be used in securing articles to the plate. Y

The form shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 comprises a plate 10 which is preferably made of metal and has practically its whole surface provided with openings 11.." The plate is spaced from and supported on a suitable support 12. The sheet 13 represents a chart, bulletin or other informatory or educational article which is placed as the plate 10 and supported by clip 14 placed in the openings 11 that are near the edges of the chart 13. These clips can be made as in Figure 3 with the divergent arms 15, with the point 16 to pass througha hole 11 and with at least one arm recessed as at 17 to hold the clip yieldingly in place by engaging the edge ef a hole 11. T ie clip is made of spring wire, round or flat, and has ,the extending arms 18 with the broadened ends 19. The ends are carried down to a point that gives them the necessary spring pressure against the face of the plate when the notch or recess 17 engages the edge of an opening 11. The end 19 can therefore press against a sheet to hold it in place as in Figure 3.

It will be evident that sheets can be made to practically abut when held by the opposed arms of a clip as they are separated only by the width of the central or guiding part of the clip.

In Figure a I show a board made of a screen 20 the wires being spaced the required distance to form openings to receive a clip. The clip shown in this figure is slightly modified by forming the ends 21 to lie across two or more wires of the screen to provide a proper extent of grip and prevent the ends of the clip from passing into the flanking perforations. i

In Figure 5 I show a clip with the ends 22 bent inwardly to enable sheets to be slid under them easily;

' Figure 6 illustrates a clip with the two arms 15 notched to receive the edge of a perforation and with the extended parts 23 to form finger pieces whereby the arms '15 can'be squeezed together to facilitate the removal of the clip from the plate or to raise the ends 24c to release a sheetof paper from pressure of the clip.

In Figure 7 I illustrate a, clip with flat ends 25 and with a doubled. central strand 26 which can be enlarged to form a grip 27, for pushing the clip in and pulling itw out and also for suspending articles therefrom as when they depend from a loop or string. 7

Various other modifications can be made in the device without departing from the; 5100 scope of the invention as defined in th claim.

I claim The combination of a sheet'with spaced perforations therein, with a clip formed of Wire -bent into divergent arms,'the Wider end forming a finger piece for compressing the clip one of said arms having an inwardly bent portion intermediate its ends, the wire then extending from the outer ends to form arms to yieldingly engage the face of the sheet when the clip is inserted through a hole in the sheet.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

ZENO W. DAY.

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