US2208354A - Display card - Google Patents

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y 16, 1940- s. V.--ANDERSON 08,354

DIS-PLAY CARD Filed-13.1 1. s, 1939 lialorfluleraam www Patented July 16, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 10 Claims.

My invention relates to the art of display card support from cans and like containers.

A purpose of my invention is to pull the top of the card forward by the use of attaching tabs and to hold the bottom back by a tongue while using these parts to hold the card upon a can.

A further purpose is to fit tabs and other fastening means upon and about a can by movement of the attaching end of a display card in a single direction.

A further purpose is to hook a portion of a card under the outer edge of the seam with a can top and at the same time check the card against rearward movement by engagement of a tongue with the inner surface of the top of the head inset, holding against swinging movement by wings turned up from the attaching flap.

, Further purposes will appear in the specification and in the claims.

I have preferred to illustrate my invention by one main form only, selecting a form which is simple, highly practical and inexpensive and which at the same time well illustrates the prin ciples thereof.

35 Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank from which my invention is formed.

Figure 1a is a fragmentary view like Figure 1 but showing a modification.

Figure 2 is a front perspective view of a card and can assembled in position.

Figure 3 is a perspective view from the rear showing the attachment of the card, but with a slight variation in the path of the tab score lines.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary rear perspective view.

In the drawing similar numerals indicate like parts.

Many efforts have been made to attach display cards to the tops of cans so that the cards may be supported individually by the can, permitting display wherever there is. footing for a can. In supplying that need I have directed my attention primarily to simplicity of construction, to firmness of attachment and to ease of assemblage for mounting upon the can, the latter being secured by downward movement of the attaching card flap upon and over the upper part of the can.

i As now manufactured substantially all cans and like containers comprise side walls with identical tops and bottoms inset and attached to the side walls by beads forming inner cylindrical walls of the insets and turned over the side walls in seams. The top and bottom are alike. Though it thus will make no difference mechanically as to which end of the can is up, the disp y Card will naturally be placed upon the top of the can.

As ordinarily constructed the cans or containers comprise side walls 6, tops and bottoms l inset at 8 so as to provide raised beads 9 and inner 5 and outer cylindrical bead surfaces In and H, which with the crowns 12 of the bead seam over the end walls. The outer bead surfaces form flanged edges or seam edges [3 outside of and close to the cylindrical side wall surface. 10

My display card l4 may be made out of any sheet material firm enough and stiff enough for the purpose, but will ordinarily be made from a cardboard or pulpboard.

The card M is integral with a flap l5 between 15 which and the cardthe material is scored at I6 and I! just sufficiently to permit bending at nearly a right-angle while maintaining firm support between the flap and the body of the card and to avoid all danger of breaking. 20

For the purpose of attachment to the top of the can the flap is out along curved line [8 just large enough to permit the greater part of the flap to pass over the head of the can, i. e., over the bead at the top of the can. This curved out 5 line does not extend through the complete circumference. Material must be left uncut and scored at l9by which to hinge the tongue 20 forming the greater part of the interior of the cut portion. 30

Tabs 2| must be left attached to the fiap and not to the tongue for a purpose hereinafter indicated, and wings 22 must be provided, attached very desirably to the base of the tongue rather than to the flap. 35

The attachment of the tabs 2| is efiected along score lines 23 which are shown in Figure 1 as straight lines forming chords to extensions of the line I8. The tabs may be stiffened at this point, if desired, by bulging, for example using 40 curves as the path of scoring 23' as in Figure 3. The extent to which the shape of this line is bulged affects the rigidity of the attachment of the tab to the flap, though the device is fully operative with straight scoring. 45

In the case of scored line 23 or 23, as in the case of the scored lines I6, I1 and I9, the depth of scoring must be proportioned to the strength and thickness of the board selected for the display card so as to permit bending and clearly to define 50 the line of the bendv while maintaining considerable rigidity of attachment. A strong spring effect may thus be secured, tending to bring the tabs back into the plane of the flap.

The shapes of the out edges 24 and 25 of the 55 tab are not important but the edge 23 is so cut that, with the intended extent of depression of the ring 2! of the flap below the rim of the can, shown at 28, the edge 26 will engage the under edge l3 of the bead 9.

The wings 29 are out free from the material of the tab at 24; from flap I along lines 33 and 3|,and from the card l4 along lines 32. The shape of the other lines is unimportant, but the direction and position of lines 32 with respect to the lines It and I! are important because when turnedup the edges at 32 are intended to control the position (that is, the extent of tilting) of the card is with respect to the perpendicular. The card is pulled against the edges at 32 which form abutments limiting its swinging movement toward theobserver in Figure 3.

Normally it is desirable to have the card ver-' ing of the wings without danger, of breakage of the board. As there is little advantage in having the wings spring down toward or into the plane of the flap, the scorings for these wings may be slightly deeper than that preferred for the other scorings. g

The angle at which scoring 33 is located is different in Figures 1 and 3 from that in Figure 1a. In Figures 1 and 3 it is approximately perpendicular to the cut line 32 with the result that the two lines 33 are diagonal to each other but the edge of cut 32 swings up to an approximately perpendicular position as the wing is lifted. In Figure 1a 33' is perpendicular tothe continuations of lines I6 and I1 and the line 32' is approximately in line with these score lines [6 and I1. The exact angle and, position of line 32' with and with respect to the score lines I6 and I! may thus be varied for special purposes such, for example, as varying the extent to which the card is pushed forward at this point byreason of its engaging the edge of the wing and the exact angle at which the card comes to rest when it is pulled backward'by the placementof the flap upon thetop of the can.

In the form of Figure la the card is cut out at 34 ateach side, preferably connecting with the cut lines 32' so as to leave a space 35 at each side at'least high enough when the card is turned up to fit over the bead of the can. In the form of Figures 1 .and 3 no separate out out is required to provide the space as it is formed by thecut at 32 extending into the material of the card as distinct from the material of the flap or tongue. This space 34 (called a cutout) has side walls 36 and 31 and top 38. It permits the entire tongue to fit down into the bottom of the recess in the can top without interference by engagement of the crown of the rim with the material of the card. The front of the tongue is the hinge line (score line) 19 and the rear of the tongue is at the end 39 of the curved line I8.

The form in Figure 3 differs from that in Figure 1 in other particulars in that the tab 2| is conne cted with the flap ring by a different character of score line at a slightly difierent position with respect to the tongue. The score line 23' is shown not only as curved-the distinction from being straightbut that the score line- 23 lies outside the continuation of the curved line l8, 1. 'e., the two score lines 23 are slightly farther the edges of the wings as abutments.

apart than are thescore lines 23. The purpose of this is so that the tabs will not only have slightly stiffer attachments to the flap material resulting in more spring for the same depth of scoring, whether the scoring be by cutting or by pressure merely, but that the basis of the tabs may be spaced a little from the side walls of the can by this means and the tabs may thus extend diagonally with respect to the side walls of the can, concentrating the spring pressure of the tabs more upon those portions of the side wall of the canimmediately beneath the seam at the top. 7 My invention is fully operative. with the tabs parallel to the wall surface but I find a little better concentration of tab pressure to resist slipping in the Figure .3 form than in the other form. I

When the card and its flap are to be applied upon the top of the can, the flap and tongue are folded approximately90 on the lines I6, I! and I9 and are placed in position over the top of the can, the'spaces 34 and rear of the tongue registering with the crown of the bead of the can.

The tongue is then presseddown into the recess at the top of the can engaging, about the curve at l8, the cylindrical inner wall of the recess at the back of thecan and by the same act pushing the inner, portion 31 of the cutout 34 7 toward and permissibly against inner spaced surfaces on the cylindrical inner wall of the recess. The placing of the tongue positions the card with respect to the display portion of the can.

At the same time the tongue is pushed down into the inset recess in the can the ring of the flap is pushed down over the-outside of the can until the ring comes to some such position as is seen in Figure 3. This produces three effects. As the ring is pressed down the wings engage the can bead and by it are turned upwardly toward the position seen in Figure 3 where their edges at 32 limit the rearward swing of the card. The ring will not stay down in the position seen in Figure 3 by itself but during the passage of the flap over the top of the can the tabs also engage the can bead and are pushed outwardly by it to a point where they spring toward each other bringing them against the outer can wall below the seam so that movement of the flap upwardly is prevented by engagement of the upper edges at 26 of these tabs with the under-outer surface of the bead at the seam.

Pushing the ring of the flap down over the rear of the side wall of the can pulls the flap toward the back of the can. Since the rear of the tongue is firmly fastened in the inset top of the can the tongue can not yield but the attachment of the flap to the card through the walls of the cut out pull the card. This pullbecomes effective at the topof the cut-out which, being above the tongue gives a leverage equal to the distance above the tongue, effective to draw the card back against The pull of the card toward the rear of the tongue swings the card upwardly and rearwardly and by the raised position of the card provides the additional material required to accommodate the position of the flap ring in Figure 3.

Since the leverage is small as compared to the additional yield of 'material called for by the position of the ring the card is drawn tightly againstthe wings 'and the outer parts of the card at each side, between the cut-outs and the outsides of the card are pulledbodily backward,

lifted by the card. 1

of the card to project at 40 relatively with respect to the side portions 41 and 42 as intended to be shown in Figure 2. "However, the greater part of the strain upon theportions of the card at 3'! is accommodated by swinging the card upwardly about its scored lines l6 and I1 and the tongue score line l9 until this upward swinging movement is stopped by engagement of the rear face of the card at the bottom with the now up turned edges of the wings. The stretching and rearward movement of the portion of the card at the cut-out with respect to the score line 19 has been shown in a large scale in Figure 4.

It will now be evident that the tongue is seated in the rear of the inset of the top of thecan by the strain of the flap ring engaging the rear of the side wall of the can, and that engagement of the front inner walls of the cut-out with the inner walls of the recess is not necessary.

The engagement of my mount with the top of the can mounts the card quickly, reliably and by a single downward movement upon and over the can and is so effective that the can may be It will be evident-that the tively lifted from their positions in the plane of the tongue and flap when the fiap ring is pushed down over the outside of the top of the can.

., While this effect is secured automatically it may base of the tongue to which they are attached so as to give maximum abutment edge surface for a minimum of material devoted to wings and to bring the diagonal lines at 32 into perpendicular position.

It will be evident that the form of flap mount for card flaps indicated is independent of the shape and character of the card or figure which may be mounted upon and by the flap.

It will be seen that the operation of placing the flap of the card on the top of a can requires downward movement only; downward movement of the flap tongue inside the recess of the card top and continuing downward movement of the flap; unless it be desired additionally to lift the wings above the position to which they are lifted by engagement with the can bead.

It will be evident that the wings are best connected with the tongue rather than the flap ring because the tongue remains in parallelism with the recessed can top and minimal height of wing is required. By placing them so as to overhang the can bead they are automatically raised part, at least, of the way to their operating position as the tongue is pressed down into the recess of the top of the can.

It will be evident that the location of the tabs along the sides of the can is a matter of convenience. It is preferrednot to locate them near the center at the rear of the can ring as cutting them out of the tongue at this point unduly weakens the tongue.

In view of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art, to obtain all or part of the benefits of my invention without copying the structure shown, and I, therefore, claim all such in so far as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention what I wings will be relaclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. In a cardand flap adapted for engagement through thefiap with a can top recessed within a can head, a card, a flap ring and tongue hinged separately to the card, the card being out between their hinged positions to allow it to fit over the bead of the can, permitting the tongue to fit down into the recess in the top of the can and engage the top and the rear inner wall of the recess and adapting the flap ring to be swung down over the top of thecan and thus to pull the card toward the rear from points of card attachment above the tongue hinge adjacent the cuts, and means for holding the fiap ring down. J

2. In a card and flap adapted for engagement through the flap with a can top recessed within a can bead, a card, a flap ring and tongue hinged separately to the card, the card being out between their hinged positions to allow it to fit over the bead of the can, permitting the tongue to fit down into the recess in the top ofthe can and engage the rear inner wall of the recess and adapting the flap ring to be swung down over the top of the can and thus to pull the card toward the rear from points of card attachment above the tongue hinge adjacent the cuts, means for holding the fiap ring down and an abutment from the tongue adapted to limit the extent to which the card is pulled rearwardly.

,3. In a card and flap adapted for engagement through the fiap with a can top recessedlwithin a can bead, a card, a flap ring and a tongue, the latter two hinged separately to the card, the card being out between the ring and tongue to allow the card to fit over the bead of the can, permitting the tongue to fit down into the recess in the top of, the can and engage the top and the rear inner Wall of the recess and adapting the fiap ring to be swung down over the top of the can and thus to pull the card toward the rear from points of card attachment above the tongue hinge adjacent the cuts, and means for limiting swinging movement of the card.

4. In a card and flap adapted for engagement through the flap with a can top recessed within a can bead, a card, a flap ring and a tongue, the latter two hinged separately to the card, the card being out between the ring, and tongue to allow the card to fit over the bead of the can, permitting the tongue to fit down into the recess in the top of. the can and engage the top and the rear inner wall of the recess and adapting the flap ring to be swung down over the top of the can and thus to pull the card toward the rear from points of card attachment above the tongue hinge adjacent the cuts and oppositely extending projections hinged to the flap ring and tongue base respectively for engagement by the side of the can and by the card respectively.

5. In a card and fiap adapted for engagement through the flap with a can top recessed within a can bead, a card, a flap ring and a tongue, the latter two hinged separately to the card, the card being out between the ring and tongue to allow the card to fit over the bead of the can, permitting the tongue to fit down into the recess in the top of. the can and engage the top and the rear inner wall of the recess and adapting the flap ring to be swung down over the top of the can and thus to pull the card toward the rear from points of card attachment above the tongue hinge adjacent the cuts and tabs score-hinged to the flap ring and adapted to engage beneath the can bead to hold the ring down.

6. In a card and flap adapted for engagement through the flap with a can top recessed within a can bead, a card, a flap ring and a tongue, the latter two hinged separately to the card, the card being out between the ring and tongue to allow,

the card to fit over the bead of the can, permitting the tongue to fit down into the recess in the top of. the can and engage the top and the rear inner wall of the recess and adapting the flap ring to be swung down over the top of the can and thus to pull the card toward the rear from points of card attachment above the tongue hinge adjacent the cuts, tabs score-hinged to the flap ring and adapted to engage beneath the can bead to hold the ring down and means for limiting swinging movement of the card.

"7. In a card fiap attaching means for support of a card upon a can having a top recess, a card, a flap hinged thereto comprising a tongue out out from the body of the flap and hinged to the card substantially in line with the hinging of the flap, the cutting out of the tongue leaving a surrounding flap ring attached to the card and adapted to fit over the top of. the can, tabs at opposite sides hinged to the flap and extending toward each other, adapted to engage with the edge of the top seam of the can and wings hinged to the base of the tongue and adapted in upstanding position to be engaged by the card, the

card being cut away at opposite sides of the tongue at the junction of the tongue with the card to span the bead of the can, whereby the tongue fits into the recess in the top of the can card substantially in line with the hinging of the flap, the cutting out of the tongue leaving a-surrounding flap ring attached to the card and adapted to fit over the top of the can, tabs at opposite sides hinged to the flap and extending toward each other, adapted to engage withthe edge of the top seam of the can and wings a land is tightened therein by reason of downward hinged to the base of the tongue and adapted in upstanding position to be engaged by the card,

the card being cut away at opposite sides of. the tongue whereby the tongue fits into the recess in the top of the can and is tightened therein by engagement of the tongue with the can and the fiap ring with the side of the can.

9. A card and can engaging flap adapted to fit upon and to be secured to the outer side walls and recessed top and bead of a can, scored between the card and flap, having a tongue adapted to fit into the recessed top of the can and against the inner surface of the top bead at the rear of the top and grooved so as to span the can bead at spaced points toward the front of the can, whereby the tongue and the walls of the grooves in the card tightly seat the tongue within the recess, wings inside the bead, hinged to the tongue and adapted when turned up to be engaged by the card and tabs outside the bead,

hinged to the flap and adapted to spring against the sides of the can and abutthe under edges of the top can bead.

10. In a mount for exhibit cards adapted to fit upon a can having outer side walls, upper edge and adapted to pass over and fit against the upper part of the can and by movement down- Wardly on the can pull the card toward the free end of the tongue and seat the tongue in the rear of the recess whereby'the pull of the flap ring is effective above the hingeline of the card to pull the card rearwardly and abutments adapted to be turned up from the material of the flap to limitrearward swinging movement of the card.

SVEN VICTOR ANDERSON.

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