US850243A - Display apparatus. - Google Patents

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No. 850,243. PATENTEDAPR, 16. 19o?.

' w. A. MOKBNY..

DISPLAY APPARATUS, APPLIATIOH FILED JUNE 2, 1906,`

WITNESSES. NVENTUR,.- @www hmh( WILLIAM A. MCKENY, OE CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DISPLAY APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 1e, i907.

'Application nea rune 2,1906. serai No. 319,326.

To L7/Z whom t 711,041/ con/cerro:

gBe it known that I, WILLIAM A. MOKENY, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented. a certain new and useful. Improvement in Display Apparatus, of which. the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The obj ect of this invention is to provide a very simple and efficient device for holding in convenient displayed form a large number of packages so arranged that the removal of any package destroys it, preventing it being reinstated in the dis lay apparatus.

The invention inc udes a support, several sets of packages, (there being a number of packages in each set with overlapping edges,) and means for securing the sets to the support so that when any package is removed it is torn.

The invention is more fully hereinafter described ,and its essential characteristics set -out in the claims.

The drawings clearly illustrate the mvention and show it' as applied to an easel-board, to which are held packages in the form of envelops placed in piles one upon the other.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device complete. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the board and one envelop and its securing means. Fig. 3 is a view of the envelop after being removed..

Referring to the parts by numerals, l. represents the board, which may be a solid piece of wood andzis shown as supported in a diagonal position by a suitable wire bail 2.

The envelops are indicated by 3. They are placed in piles on the board and are there held by cross-rods 4 and staples 5. Additional staples 6 beyond the edges of the cnvelops further insure the wires being held in place. The wires 4, extending across the envelops, as shown, hold them properly in place.

Fig. l shows four piles of envelo s side by side all held by 011e wire 4. Eaclli staple 5 not onl y holds the wire in place, but passes through each envelop of the set beneath it, so that when any envelop is removed it is torn and cannot be returned to the apparatus for subsequent. use. The contents of the envelop, which depends upon the use toA which the envelop is put, is Indicated by the dotted lines 7 in Fig. 2.

Fig. l of the drawings shows the envelops arranged in piles of three, four piles being placed beneath each wire, there being six wires On the board. This is purely illustrative, however, and any convenient number of envelopsmay be in a pile and there may be any convenienty number of piles and corresponding wires.

It will be noticed that in each set of envelops the under ones are placed with their upper edges projecting farther than the envelops in front of them, so that it is easy to take hold of any envelop. Moreover, each set of envelops overlaps the set just above it, whereby all the fasteningdevices except the lower one are hidden from view. A very neat appearance is thus obtained as well as a very compact display-board.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. In a display apparatus, the combination of a support, a series of packages thereon, a rod extending across such packages and securing means engaging the rod and passing throu h the packages into the support.

2. In a display apparatus, the combination of a support, a series of packages thereon, a rod extending across such packages, and staples passing across the rod through the packages into the support.

3. In a display apparatus, the combination of a supporting-board, a series of crossbars secured thereto, several sets of Asuperimposed packages beneath each cross-bar, and means for securing each package so that its removal breaks the package.

4. In a display apparatus, the combination of a supporting-board, a series of crossrods fastened thereto on the face thereof, a series of sets of packages, each set extending beneath one ofsaid cross-rods, and staples for each set passin across the corresponding rod and through al the packages of the set.

5. The combination of a supp orting-board, a series of parallel cross-rods on the face thereof, a series of sets of envelops, each set extending beneath one of said cross-rods, and staples for each set passing across the corresponding rods and through all the envelops of the set, each set of envelops having its individuals projecting beyond those thereabove, whereby all are conveniently accessible. l

6. The combination of a supporting-board, a series of parallel cross-rods fastened thereto on the face thereof, a series of sets of envelops, each set extending beneath one of said TOO IIO

In testirnony whereof I hereunto :affix my signature 1n the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM A. MCKENY.

Witnesses E ALBERT H. BATES,

G. A. MYERS.

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