US1772338A - Picture-packet-display device - Google Patents

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Aug. 5, 1930. a. CHERRY PICTURE PACKET DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Aug. 21. 1928 5 8 M 7 5 0 .w a u L no 18 A v f N z 0. 0 n

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ATTORNEY] P a tented Augl5, 1930 a f- 4 I i I I I UNITE-DSTATES B NJAMIN cHiinnY, or rHIiiAn-nLPiim; PENNSYLVANIA A PiGTURE-IPACKET-DISPLKY.DEViCE Application .filed August 21,]1928. serialu 300,978,. l

The object ofthis invention is to produce a 7 consisting of a transparent screen 2 and ,a new and improved advertising and display plurality of pictures arrangedaround it and card whereby aplurality of scenes or slogans attached thereto at the points 3. may be successively displayed at a" common "The screen may be of glass, mica, celluloid 5 point. s and any other transparent substance. 56

This invention'contemplates the production I The objects to be displayed may be formed ofa picture card and displaynovelty primari; of a single piece. of cardboard 5 as shownin ly adapted for use as a souvenir and of special Figure 4, having a hole 6 which is ,filled by interest to children. the transparent screen 2 and margins 7 to 10 Display novelties in the form ofsouvenir which the transparent screen'is attached, and post-cards or packets have long been known. wings 8 to which are attached the pictures or These generally are in the form of a long displaydevices '31 A-scoredline 7 permits string of pictures joined successively at their the pictures or display devices to'be moved margins. The pictures as displayed must, intoand out offoperative relation with the h 15 therefore, be seen in a certain fixed sequence. screen-2without breakinglthe cardboard on The only way to see any one picture or device which the picture is mounted. The display ,displayed is to pass by those which precede it. devices may be mounted on one or both sides It is one of the objects of this invention to of thecardboard asdesired. If the pictures arrange a group of pictures or other objects to '3 are mounted only on one side, then one dis-' 20' be displayed so that they may be seen in any play unitncanbe attached ontheupper face sequence desired without the necessity of preof the display device and one on the lower viously passing by those which precede, it. 1 face as shown in Figure 2. f

Another object of this invention is to ar- The device is manipulated as follows: range a group of pictures so that they may be When not in use, thewings 8, of cardboard 2 successively seen at a common point. j are moved and folded upon the screen 2, mak- Another object of this invention is toso ing a co'fpact p acket whose surface is that of arrange a group of pictures, slogans, or other the screen 2; objects to be displayed so that they may be To u'se'the same, all of the wings are un-.

successively brought into the line of vision foldedas shown in Figure 1. Any wing de- 3 at avcommon point and give the visual imsired is now movedup to the screen. and

pression of moving pictures. brought -.to the. view of-the observer.

These and other objects of the invention It is to be understood'that the above diswill become apparent from thefollowing declosure is by the way of illustration and not tailed description and accompanying drawby the way. of limitation.

35 ings. j v For instance, the object displayed may be a Figurel discloses the packet entirely open picture, a slogan, a combination of the two. with one of the pictures displayed at the com- I Se ndl th construction may be varied mon point. bymaking the margins of cloth and attach Figure 2 is a section taken along the line ing the-pictures directly thereto, or by mak- 40 2-, 2 of Figure 1. r p p ingthe backing portion 8 of cloth, or any Figure 3 is atop view ofthescreen through other 7 material, or by attaching individual which the pictures or slogans are displayed. margins instead of common unitary margins Figure 4 is a top view of an assembly of with a hole 6 therein. picturesor slogans before they are mounted} Having described my invention, what I 45 on the screen for display. claim as new and useful is:

Figure 5 is a top view of the folded packet. 1. A display device consisting of a trans- Figure 6 is a view along the line 6-6 of parent screen, having an upper and a lower the Figure 5. p 7 face; a plurality of display devices movably' Referring more specifically to the drawattached to the upper face of the said transings, 1 represents the new device as assembled parent screen at a plural number of points m around the perimeter of the same; a plurality of display devices movably attached to the lower face of the said screen at a plural number of points around the perimeter of the same, any one of the display devices in the said upper and lower portions being adapted to be selectively brought into registry with the said screen;

'2. A display' movably attached to the upper face of the said transparent screen at the di fierent-edge's l I T ofthe said polygon; a plurality of display devices movably attached'tothelowerface 9 the s id sem n-a th s fi ed eof h said p pn a y one of. th sp ay vices in the said upper,and'lower portionslbe ing adapted to'be selectively brought into registrywith the said screen. f V

3. ,A display device consisting ofa ZQGtangular transparent screen having an -upper and a l ace- :Ple aHty-d display vices-hingedlyattached to theupper face of the said transparent screen at the. different edges of the; said- Irectangle; a plurality, of

display devic s,1i0 b1y- -attached to the V lower face or said transparent screen, at the different edges oflthe said rectangle, ,any one of the displa y devices 111 t he; s aid upper a d. lower portionsij eing' adaptedi to be; 'se-' lectively brought into registry with the said screenl 7 'c 4. A display :device consisting of a rectanP gular transparent screen having an upper and lower face a rectangular mat attached to the upperiace of the-rsaid transparent screen; a rectangular mat at-tachedgtoi the lower f aced of the said screen a ,displaydei n edly a ac d o e c 91f the edges of the upper and lower nats, any one of the said display devi'ces'being adapted to be selectively brought into registry with the said screen.

VIII} witness whereof lthereby affix my signature. a

BEN AMI CHER device consisting of a polygo- I I naltransparent screen having an up'per'and f" lower face; a plurality?rofgdisplay' jdevicesog

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