US2232466A

US2232466A - Easel

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Publication number: US2232466A
Application number: US276450A
Authority: US
Inventors: Leo L Mckeown
Original assignee: GEO L KOHNE Inc
Current assignee: GEO L KOHNE Inc
Priority date: 1939-05-29
Filing date: 1939-05-29
Publication date: 1941-02-18
Anticipated expiration: 1958-02-18

Description

EASEL Filed May 29, 1939 FIGJ.

INVEN TOR.

LEO L McKEOWN W WM ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 18 1941 UNITED STATES EASEL Leo L. McKeowmToledo, Ohio, assignor to Geo. L. Kohne, Inc, Toledo, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application May 29, 1939, Serial No. 276,450

' 3 Claims. (01. 248-35) The invention relates to easel supports designed for application to pictures, picture frames and similar articles. It is the object of the invention to obtain a construction which is readily attachable to the article to be supported; which when not in use will lie flat in parallelism with said article; and which in use will be locked in rigid supporting relation thereto. To this end the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my improved easel support in collapsed position;

Figure 2 is a side elevation showing the support extended for use;

Figure 3 is a plan view indicated in full lines the collapsed position and in dotted lines the open position;

Figure 4 is a horizontal section on line 4-4 of Figure 1.

My improved easel support may be formed from any suitable sheet material, but preferably heavy cardboard. The blank A is preferably cut to taper in an upward direction with parallel upper and lower edges B and C. A short distance below the upper edge the blank is provided with one or more scores D and D' to facilitate bending. From the center of the blank below these scores is cut a brace member E which has a wide portion E at the bottom tapering upwardly to a narrower neck E then flaring outward to a wider portion E again tapering to a narrow portion E and again widening to a portion E Adjacent but slightly below the narrow neck E are angle portions E having a dimension between them slightly greater than the restricted portion E This brace portion is completely severed from the remainder of the blank,

but when attached to the article to be supported is in its original position. The portion E below the narrow neck E is rigidly attached to the back of the article to be supported by any suitable means, such as by one or more staples F or by the use of adhesive. Also, the portion of the main blank above the score D is secured to the back of the article to be supported, in a similar manner by staples G. This permits the blank to lie flat against the back of the article to be supported. To place the device in condition for use the main blank A is moved outward from its lower end leaving the brace member E in its original position. The brace member E is then drawn outward from its upper end bending at the narrow neck E which bending is facilitated by a score E at this point extending transverse- I portion of said brace.

1y across the brace. 'When the upper end of the brace is sufficiently' lowered to register with the opening from which the portion E" has been removed, it will enter this opening after which the brace may be drawn upward to engage the restricted portion E with the notches E formed by the removal of the angle portions E This will form an interlock and there will be sufiicient resiliency in the brace member to press it upward and to maintain engagement with said notches. In this position of the parts the main portion of the blank forms an inclined supporting leg which is held spaced from the back of the article to be supported and in rigid relation thereto.

Another and preferable method of placing the device in condition for use is to first pull outward the brace member from the aperture in the remainder of the blank. This is facilitated by cutting away the upper end of the brace member, as shown in Figure 1, thereby forming an aperture in which a finger or thumb may be inserted for engaging the nail with the upper edge of the remaining portion of said brace. The brace may then be drawn outward far enough so as to permit the remainder or leg portion of the blank to also be drawn out, the upper and intermediate portions' of the brace being movable through the aperture left by the wider base Thus the narrow portion E may beregistered with the notches E, whereupon the resiliency of the brace member will press it upward into interlocking engagement therewith.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. An easel support comprising a flat blank of resilient material adapted to lie parallel to the back of the article to be supported with its upper end portion secured thereto, and a brace severed from the central portion of said blank having its lower end portion of greater width than its upper end portion and the latter of greater width than an intermediate portion, said blank being scored for bending between said lower and intermediate portions and said lower 4 end portions being secured to said back while said brace is in its original relation to the blank and parallel to said back, the upper end portion being bendable downward along the scored line to be movable through the aperture formed by r the removal of the lower end portion and being notched for interlocking engagement with the sides of the intermediate portion of said aperture and held in such position by the resiliency of the material.

2. An easel support comprising a fiat blank of resilient material adapted to lie parallel to the back of the article to be suported with its upper end portion secured thereto, and a brace severed from the central portion of said blank having its lower end portion of greater Width than its upper end portion and scored for bending adjacent thereto also having an intermediate portion of lesser width than said upper portion fashioned to form notches in the opposite sides of the aperture formed when the brace is removed, said upper end portion of the brace being bendable downward along the scored line to be movable through the wide aperture formed in the blank I by the removal of the lower end portion of the brace and being notched in its opposite sides for interlocking engagement with said notched sides of the aperture in the blank and held in such position by the resiliency of the material.

3. An easel support comprising a fiat blank of resilient material adapted to lie parallel to the back of the article to be supported with its upper end portion secured thereto, and a brace severed from the central portion of said blank having its lower end portion of greater width than its uper end portion and having an intermediate portion of lesser width than said upper portion fashioned to form notches in the opposite sides of the aperture formed when the brace is removed, said upper end portion of the brace being partly cut away to leave an opening for engaging a finger nail with the upper edge of the remaining portion so as to pull the same outward being also movable through the wide aperture formed in the blank by the removal of the lower end portion of the brace and being notched in its opposite sides in registration for interlocking engagement with said notched sides of the aperture in the blank, said blank and also said brace being scored intermediate the attached and free portions thereof to facilitate bending downward and the resiliency of the material of the brace pressing it upward into interlocking engagement.

LEO L. NICKEOWN.