US666941A - Display-easel. - Google Patents

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DISPLAY EASEL.

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NITE STATES ATENT OFFI E.

GEORGE B. STREIT, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

DlSPLAY-EASEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,941, dated January 29, 1901.

Application filed April 23, 1900. serial No. 14,070. \No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. STREIT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Display-Easels; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to display easels, and has for its object an improved display frame or easel intended to be used as a support for articles to be displayed or exhibited It can be used as the back of a carton or packingcase in which smaller boxes are contained or as a support for small articles fastened to it, or it can itself be used as a show-card.

In use the easel has a triangular form, but can be readily changed from this form to a compact fold for shipping or packing, in which it occupies only the thickness of two pieces of the material from which it is made.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the blank in its unfolded form. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the blank in its display form. Fig. 3 is a section of the blank in its display form. Fig. 4 is a section of the blank folded to its form for packing. Fig. 5 is shown as a blank made from parts hinged together and prepared to hold small articles that are held to the display-face by suitable fasteners. Fig. 6 is a View of the top of the base part of the easel shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a section of the easel shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 8 isa detail view showing a mode of securing two of the parts together.

The easel is made either from a single piece of material made flexible at two places aand b or from three pieces of material hinged together at the flexion -lines. It may be considered as divided into three parts by the hinge-lines-a front or display face A, a base B, and a brace O. The base B lies between the hinge-lines a and b, the display-face A lies to one side of the base, and the brace lies to the other. The display-face is longer than the brace and has near its upper end a catch pointing toward the hinge-line and adapted to engage over the upper end of the brace. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, this is a tongue 6, the point of which is directed toward the hinge-line b. The brace O has cutthrough it two holes f and g. Preferably the tongues f and g are left in the holes and the free ends of both of them point toward the hingeline a. The outermost g of the tongues of the brace O is near the end of the brace and is properly arranged to allow the point of the tongue e to engage through the opening when the easel is bent to the shapeshown in Fig. 2. The tongue f is properly located to allow the tongue e to engage through the opening when the easel is packed for shipping, and the structure then takes the form indicated in Fig. 4.

To mount the easel, it is bent at the hingelines a and b to bring the ends D and E toward one another. The end D is engaged under the tongue 6 and the end of the tongue e pushed down into the openingg of the tongue 9, and the easel is in shape to stand on its base B with its display-face in an oblique position and its brace end properly arranged to support it.

To pack the parts, the easel is bent on itself at the line b. The tongue 6 is inserted through the openingf, and the parts can now be handled without opening. The openingg and the tongue 9 serve two functions. First, they form a lock to aid in securing the parts together, and, second, they furnish a bearing under the tongue 6, which bends or yields toward the display-face A, and consequently enables the parts to be put in position without unduly straining the tongue 6.

The form shown in Fig. 5 has the same features of arrangement as those already described as pertaining to Figs. 1 and 2; but it is enlarged or widened, and there are two tongues e instead of the single tongue 6, and in the brace-piece there are two tongues g instead of the single tongue g.

In'Fig. 5 the display-face is shown as provided with a number of holding-points h, and these holding-points may be cut from the material in the same way that the tongue e is described as being cut from the material, and a thin card of buttons or card of similar articles can be held to the display-face A by inserting its edges under the fasteners 71; but

preferably the fastener is made of a strip of flexible comparatively non-elastic material 70, which will hold the shape to which it is bent and which will serve to hold securely the object to be exhibited and acts as a reinforcing-strip to the material of which the display part of the easel is composed. Such a flexible strip can be bent around or partly around the article to be held to the easel. 'Ihe flexible strip is itself held to the easel by a covering-strip 1", which is cemented to the back of the display part of the easel.

A cheaply-constructed easel may consist merely of a single piece of cardboard scored at the hinge-lines and provided with tongues cut from the board. More expensive easels may be made with cloth or leather-hinges, or even the entire easel may be made of metal with metal hinges.

In Fig. 8 the point e is shown as cut to form a headed locking-point arranged to be thrust in the opening g and to be held in place by folding out the lobes which have been bent or folded in when the point was thrust through the hole. This makes a very secure lock to hold the parts together.

What I claim is- 1. An easel for display purposes, consisting of a three-part frame, one part comprising a supporting or display face, another part comprising a brace, and the third part comprising a base, the material of the displayface being cut through to form a downwardlyextending tongue which may be bent backward, and extend over the top of the brace, substantially as described.

2. An easel for display purposes, consisting of a three-part frame, one part comprising a supporting ordisplay face, another part comprising a brace, and the third part comprising a base, the display-face being provided with a baekwardly and downwardly extending part to engage over the top of the brace, said brace being provided with an aperture, the end of said part extending from the display-face being adapted to pass into the aperture in the brace, substantially as shown and for the purpose described.

3. An easel for display purposes, made of a three-part frame arranged to be bent for display purposes into three sections, one part comprising a supporting or display face, another part comprising a brace, and the third part comprising a base, the display-face being provided with a projection which extends backward and downward therefrom and engages over the top of the brace when the frame is set up, said brace part being provided with an aperture so located that said projection shall enter the same and hold the parts in position when folded, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE E. STREIT.

Witnesses:

SoLoN G. HOWE, JOHN N. GOODRIOH.

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