US2027600A

US2027600A - Advertising display

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Publication number: US2027600A
Application number: US13189A
Authority: US
Inventors: Makres George
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1935-03-27
Filing date: 1935-03-27
Publication date: 1936-01-14
Anticipated expiration: 1953-01-14

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ADVERTISING DISPLAY Filed March 27, 1955 INVENTOR. Geo/"ye fid/f'res ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 14, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application March 27,

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to souvenirs or advertising novelties and to the method of making such articles.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an advertising novelty in the form of a metal rosette having diverging arms or leaves constituting display bearing mediums and also serving to distribute the weight whereby the same assumes a stable upright position when placed upon a supporting surface. As a result of the stability resulting from the formation of the several arms or leaves the device is adapted for service as an advertisement bearing paper weight, in which case each or any of the various arms may be provided with indicia having advertising value.

In articles of the present type an unusual or novel appearance increases their commercial value and accordingly the invention has as another object to provide a method for the manufacture of rosettes and the like from hard metal, such as iron or steel, so that the articles produced take on irregular shapes which attract attention and which, although appearing fragile, have mechanical strength sufiicient to stand rough usage such as dropping on a floor.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a method of making advertising or souvenir articles whereby articles successively produced take on various dissimilar forms and whereby no two articles produced will have the same form. In this connection the value of the article as a souvenir is enhanced in that it is impossible to form two articles alike, thus making it possible to guarantee each purchaser of a souvenir that no other person will receive one which is identical in shape.

With the above and other ends in view the invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure l is a front elevation of the article;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation;

Figs. 3 and 4 are cross sections illustrating different stages in the formation of the article;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevation of the tool for forming the device;

Figs. 6 and '7 are an elevation and plan respectively of an article having another form.

Like characters of reference are employed throughout to designate corresponding parts.

In Figures 1 and 2 there is illustrated one form of article which comprises two arcuately bent arms I and 2 angularly related one to the other 1935, Serial No. 13,189

so that when the article is placed on a supporting surface the arm 2 provides a base and the arm I is supported in an upstanding position. Integral with the arms I and 2 are a plurality of smaller arms 4 and 5 which give the article the appearance of a rosette. When the article is placed in the position shown in Fig. 2 the arm 2 provides a base for supporting the arms I and 4 so that their outer surfaces are exposed. As indicated in reference to Fig. 1 advertising matter or indicia may be placed on the outer surface of the arm I, and in a similar manner on the arms 2, 4 and 5, the indicia on the arms 2 and 5 being exposed when the article is placed so that the arm I serves as a base, instead of the arm 2 as shown.

The method of making the above described article is illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. The first step consists in forcefully driving a chisel or like tool 6 into a solid block of metal 1, an example of the metal being iron or steel, so as to form a shaving 8 whose end remains united with the block I. The next step is to provide other similar shavings 9 and I0 whose ends remain united with the block. Successive cuts from different directions in the block I provide similar shavings II, I2 and I3 and by employing a chisel such as shown in Fig. 5 having an angular end I4 each of the shavings so formed will take on an arcuate form and will be provided with irregular edges of different shapes. The desired number of shavings or arms are formed in a block as shown in Fig. 4 where they are illustrated as being integrally united one with the others and with the block 1 at the point I5. The final step consists in severing the arms from the block without severing them one from the other.

In Figs. 6 and 7 there is illustrated another shape of an article formed by the above described method. In this form a plurality of arms I6, I1 and I8 extend outwardly from a relatively heavy part I9. Each arm I6, ll and I8 has a surface suitable for bearing advertising or other indicia.

Although specific embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described it will be understood that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention and such changes are contemplated.

What I claim is:

1. The method of forming an article of the character described which consists in providing a metal slab, cutting said slab to provide a comparatively long shallow gouge-like incision, consecutively providing said slab with a plurality of similar incisions each longer than the one preceding it and each underlapping the one preceding it, bending the chips formed by said incisions to provide them with an arcuate form whereby each chip partially envelops the chip preceding it, and finally severing the chips as an integral group from said slab.

2. The method of forming a metal rosette which consists in providing a metal slab, cutting said slab to provide a comparatively long shallow gouge-like incision, consecutively providing said slab with a plurality of similar incisions each longer than the one preceding it and each underlapping the one preceding it with all of said incisions extending in the same general direction, bending the chips formed by said incisions into an arcuate form whereby each chip partially envelops the chips preceding, cutting said slab to form a second long shallow gouge-like incision extending in a direction opposite to said first named incisions and terminating at a point slightly spaced from the terminal of said first named incision, consecutively providing said slab with a plurality of incisions underlapping said second incison wth each incision longer than the one preceding and each incision terminating at points spaced from the terminal points of the other incisions, bending the chips formed by said last named incisions whereby each chip is caused to partially envelop the one preceding it, and finally severing the several chips formed by the several incisions from said slab as an integral group.

GEORGE MAKRES.