US1938831A - Print storage and display device - Google Patents

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Dec. 12, 1933. l. B. HICKOX PRINT STORAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE Filed May 5, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l Dec. 12, 1933.

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PRINT STORAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE Filed May 5, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Dec. 12, 1933 UNITEDHSTATES PRINT STORAGE AND DISPLAY DEVIC v Iva B. Hickox, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 1 Application May 3, 1932. Serial No. 608,947

7 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a device for storing prints or drawings and for conveniently exhibiting them.

p The principal object is to provide such a de- B vice which shall be useful both for dealers or salesmen and collectors and which will be effective to exclude dust as well as to provide for convenience in displaying the prints orthe like.

A further object is to provide means for avoiding 1!) handling of the prints themselves. Other and more limited objects will be in part obvious from the following description and in part pointed out in connection therewith.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings 15 in which corresponding reference characters refer to the same parts throughout, Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing one form of my invention in closed position; Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing it in open position; Fig. 3 is a "in section on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a closed view of a modified form; Fig. 5 is an open view of the form shown in Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary section on the line 6--6 of Fig. 5.

Referring now to the embodiment of Figs. 1

'85 to 3, the numeral 10 indicates generally a boxlike cover member having a bottom and three upright walls. The upright walls are stepped as indicated at 11. Hinged along the open end of the box 10 is a back member 12 which in one position completes the box 10 and serves as the fourth wall thereof. Hinged along the other side of the back member 12 is a second cover member 13 consisting of a bottom and three upright walls. The upright walls of the cover 85 member 13 are of less height than those of the member 10 and are adapted to telescope over the reduced upper portion of the walls of the cover 10 whereby to form a complete dust excluding receptacle. As indicated in Fig. 3, the

. 1G0 walls are covered by a suitable sized fabric or similar covering 14/ I prefer to make this covering flexible and to employ it for hinging the movable parts together. As clearly indicated in the drawings the hingingoccurs along'the lines indicated by thenumeral l5.

Secured to the cover member 10 by a flexible strip 16 are a series of flexibly connected print receiving pockets indicated generally by the numeral 17. Each of these is indirectly flexibly connected to the others as by being bound to the flexible strip 18 through the medium of a short binding member 19 and strips 21.. Each of the parts 20 comprises two sheets of fiber board, cardboard or similar somewhat stifl and resilient material. These parts 20 are secured together along their ends by strips 22 extending around and secured to both. It is to be imderstood that these parts 20 may be joined at their ends in any other suitable manner as by gluing or'sewing. The side of the portion 20 opposite 00 its hinged connection to the portion 19 is left open for insertion of the margin of a print or similar sheet 23. While it is desirable to secure the book 17 of print receiving pockets at one point 16 only whereby the parts may. assume the G5 position'shown in Fig. 1 at the beginning of in-' spection, it is to be understood that it may be secured to the back member 12 with satisfactory results. The pockets are preferably made substantially longer than the width of the prints they are to receive whereby it will be convenient to turn over the prints, book fashion, without touching thembut merely by grasping the parts 20 at the end such as at 22. It is to be understood that a considerably larger number of "7 pockets will go into the make-up of the book 17 and that the smallnumber has been illustrated in order to make the construction readily understandable and to avoid crowding the lines of the drawings.

Referring now to the modification of Figs. 4 to 6, the numeral 25 indicates a rigid cover member provided with flaps 26 attached to the free edges'thereof and adapted to be folded over' into covering relation to the'prints. Connected 35 to the cover member 25 through the medium of a flexible back 2'7 is a cover 28 made upof two flexibly connected portions 29 and 30. Secured to the cover 25 are straps 31 provided with separable fastening members adapted to cooperate with complementary fastening members 32 on the cover portion 30. Handles 33 are attached to the ends of the cover members 25 and 28.

Secured to the cover members 25 and '28 is a flexible sheet of fabric or the like 34 and to this are bound as by stitching at the points 35 or in any other suitable manner a series of pairs of print receiving pockets in book fashion substantially as described in connection with 1 Fig. 3. Inasmuch as the pockets shown in Fig. 6 are of substantially the same construction as those shown in Fig. 3the same numerals are applied thereto. It will be obvious that the modification of Figs. 4 to 6 is designed to be portable and especially for the use of salesmen. The folding cover 28 enables the positioning of this sample case for effective display of prints in a very small table or desk space and with the exception of the qualities of being dust-proof 110 and conveniently stored possesses substantially the advantages of the first form described.

While I have described both forms with reference to use in connection with prints, it is to be understood that either form may likewise be used in connection with all sorts of drawings and similar sheet material.

While I have shown and described the present preferred embodiments of myinvention I wish it understood that I am not limited to the details thereof except in accordance with the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what claim is: s.

prising a pair of sheets normally lying in substantial contact with each other and joined at their ends whereby to frictionally grip a print whoseedge is placed therebetween.

IVA B. HICKOX.

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