US20100102069A1 - Viewing apparatus - Google Patents

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US20100102069A1
US20100102069A1 US12/513,275 US51327507A US2010102069A1 US 20100102069 A1 US20100102069 A1 US 20100102069A1 US 51327507 A US51327507 A US 51327507A US 2010102069 A1 US2010102069 A1 US 2010102069A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F5/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features
    • A47F5/10—Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands
    • A47F5/11—Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands made of cardboard, paper or the like
    • A47F5/112—Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands made of cardboard, paper or the like hand-folded from sheet material
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F1/00—Cardboard or like show-cards of foldable or flexible material
    • G09F1/04—Folded cards
    • G09F1/06—Folded cards to be erected in three dimensions
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F19/00—Advertising or display means not otherwise provided for

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  • the invention relates to a viewing apparatus with a housing having a front wall and a rear wall, the front wall having at least one viewing opening for viewing a flat object on an object support, located in the interior of the housing.
  • the front and rear walls are connected to each other along two opposing connecting lines and in each case have a kink line at a prescribed distance from the connecting lines such that the housing can be erected from a rest position, in which the front and rear walls lie flat against each other, into a viewing position, in which the front and rear walls are arranged such that they can be spaced apart from each other.
  • the housing has a box-shaped design with a substantially rectangular cross section and is surrounded by a wall at the front, a wall at the rear and two side walls.
  • a first end of the object support is fixedly connected to a side wall of the housing, while its opposing second end freely projects into the housing in the rest position of the latter. Furthermore, the object support has a width which is greater than the width of the wall at the front, but less than the width of the front wall so that, in the viewing position of the housing, said object support has a surface which is arched toward the wall at the rear.
  • the present invention is based on the object of specifying a viewing apparatus which has a design which is as flat as possible in its rest position and which can be changed into a reproducible viewing position in a simple manner, the viewing apparatus remaining in this position without the use of additional parts.
  • the invention is basically based on the idea of not connecting the object support to a side wall of the housing, but rather fixedly connecting it to the housing in the region of a connecting line between the front and/or rear wall, to be precise in the region of that connecting line which laterally delimits the wall at the front in the viewing position.
  • the effect of this measure is that when the housing is erected by exerting a lateral pressure onto the connecting lines, the region of the object support facing the second end firstly rests against the wall at the rear on the inside, in order to then, with its free second end, glide along the adjacent side wall into the kink line which is provided in the front wall and delimits the corresponding side wall.
  • the central region of the object support is supported by the central wall region of the wall at the rear and holds the housing in its viewing position (assuming a corresponding stiffness of the object support), without an additional opening aid being required to fix the housing in its viewing position.
  • the free second end of the object support In order to ensure secure gliding of the free end of the object support along the adjacent side wall region during the opening and closing process of the viewing apparatus, it was found to be expedient for the free second end of the object support to be designed to glide correspondingly well.
  • this can be effected by rounding off the second end of the object support, by a plastic coating or by a folding edge.
  • the folding edge is selected such that the folded over region points toward the wall at the front, the folding edge can simultaneously be used to guide and hold the object to be supported by the object support.
  • the material for the housing and/or the object support can be both board (cardboard) and plastics, but an appropriately suitable metal can also be used. It is also possible to have material combinations of rigid and flexible, opaque and transparent materials (e.g. cardboard laminated with transparent film) which are connected to one another by adhesive bonding, for example.
  • the object support can also be the object itself.
  • images photographs, etc.
  • organic display or a display consisting of electronic paper are possible objects.
  • the wall at the front and/or rear of the viewing apparatus comprises an outwardly arched surface so that the apparatus can easily be grasped by the respective user in both the rest position and viewing position of the housing.
  • the viewing apparatus prefferably be designed such that the rear wall is designed as a packaging container which has sufficient space for an additional flat object (e.g. a CD or an additional image).
  • an additional flat object e.g. a CD or an additional image
  • the rear wall can also comprise at least one viewing opening and the object support can be used to arrange an object on both its side facing the front wall and also its side facing the rear wall.
  • an opening aid can be attached to the wall region of the front wall forming the side wall and said opening aid can be pivoted from a closed position, in which it at least partly covers the front wall on the outside, to an opened position, in which the side wall is erected.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a first exemplary embodiment of a viewing apparatus according to the invention, in which the housing is in its viewing position;
  • FIGS. 2-5 show plan views of the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1 , the housing being pushed manually from its rest position ( FIG. 2 ) into its viewing position via intermediate positions ( FIGS. 3 and 4 );
  • FIG. 6 shows a plan view, corresponding to FIG. 5 , of a second exemplary embodiment of a viewing apparatus according to the invention
  • FIG. 7 shows a cross section through a third exemplary embodiment of a viewing apparatus according to the invention.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 show two perspective views of a fourth exemplary embodiment of the invention, the viewing apparatus being provided with an opening aid.
  • FIGS. 1-5 designates a viewing apparatus according to the invention, which basically consists of a housing 4 ( FIG. 2 ) having a front wall 2 and a rear wall 3 , the front wall 2 having a viewing opening 5 for viewing an image (not illustrated) on a separate object support 6 , located in the interior of the housing 4 .
  • the front and rear walls 2 and 3 are connected to each other along two opposing connecting lines 7 , 8 . Furthermore, kink lines 9 , 10 are respectively arranged at a prescribed distance from the connecting lines 7 , 8 such that the housing 4 can be erected from a rest position, in which the front and rear walls 2 , 3 lie flat against each other ( FIG. 2 ), into a viewing position, in which the front and rear walls 2 , 3 are arranged such that they can be spaced apart from each other, so that the housing 4 has a box-shaped design with basically a rectangular cross section and is surrounded by a wall at the front 11 , a wall at the rear 12 , and two side walls 13 , 14 .
  • the width of the object support 6 is selected such that although it is greater than the width of the wall at the front 11 , it is slightly less than the width of the front wall 2 , so that, in the viewing position of the housing 4 , the object support 6 has a surface which is arched toward the wall at the rear 12 . As a result, the image located on the object support 6 is also arched correspondingly and conveys a spatial impression to an observer looking through the viewing opening 5 of the wall at the front 11 .
  • the first end 15 of the object support 6 is fixedly connected to the front wall 2 and/or the rear wall 3 of the viewing apparatus 1 in the region of the connecting line 7 which laterally delimits the wall at the front 11 in the viewing position.
  • the second end 16 of the object support 6 freely projects into the housing 4 in the rest position of the latter.
  • FIGS. 2-5 The erection process of the viewing apparatus 1 according to the invention can be gathered directly from FIGS. 2-5 : pressure, for example using two fingers of a hand, is exerted on the connecting lines 7 and 8 on the housing 4 ( FIG. 2 ), initially in its rest position; this is indicated in FIGS. 2-4 by corresponding arrows.
  • the free second end 16 of the object support 6 glides along the side wall 14 into the front left corner of the housing 4 (viewing position of the object support) defined by the kink line 10 .
  • the central region 18 of the object support 6 is supported by the wall at the rear 12 .
  • the housing 4 of the viewing apparatus 1 is intended to be brought back into its rest position, it is only necessary to apply slight pressure onto the two corners defined by the kink lines 9 and 10 , labeled in FIG. 5 by the dashed arrows.
  • the second end 16 of the object support 6 then glides along the side wall 14 , from the front left corner defined by the kink line 10 , back into the back left corner defined by the connecting line 8 , and the object support 6 relaxes during this process.
  • the free second end 16 of the object support 6 can glide along the side wall 14 without problems, it is provided with a folding edge 21 which at the same time serves as a holder for an object (e.g. a photograph).
  • the entire viewing apparatus 1 including the object support 6 can advantageously be produced in a simple manner by folding an appropriate blank of, for example, cardboard, plastic foil, etc. After the folding process, it is only necessary to connect, in a force fitting manner, the (right) end region 22 of the blank adjoining the wall at the front 11 to the side wall 13 .
  • FIG. 6 shows an exemplary embodiment of the invention in which the viewing apparatus 1 has a rear wall 3 with a cavity 23 with space for an additional flat object (e.g. a CD, a coin, indicia and tokens, etc.) 24 .
  • an additional flat object e.g. a CD, a coin, indicia and tokens, etc.
  • the wall at the front and rear 11 and 12 of the viewing apparatus 1 had an outwardly arched surface, as illustrated schematically in FIG. 7 , so that the apparatus can easily be grasped by a user.
  • an opening aid can be attached to the wall region of the front wall 2 forming the side wall 14 and said opening aid can be pivoted from a closed position, in which it at least partly covers the front wall on the outside, to an opened position, in which the side wall is erected.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 show a corresponding exemplary embodiment.

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US1173843A (en) * 1915-06-15 1916-02-29 Alexander Morten Ticket-holder.
US2638211A (en) * 1951-07-10 1953-05-12 Ace Art Company Label package and dispenser
US2971282A (en) * 1959-04-28 1961-02-14 Sanders W Petrey Picture display means
US2984920A (en) * 1960-01-05 1961-05-23 Three dimensional greeting card
US3503147A (en) * 1968-03-04 1970-03-31 Herrin Melvin Bernard Display devices
US6163991A (en) * 1996-03-28 2000-12-26 Springleaf Concepts & Design, Inc. Machine-foldable display having superimposed, spaced-apart image panels
US6584717B2 (en) * 1999-11-16 2003-07-01 Giuliano Cinquina Photograph-holder made of flexible sheet material and punched sheet for the manufacture thereof
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