US958082A - Adjustable display-card holder. - Google Patents

Description

L. BLAND.

ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY GARD HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 14, 1909.

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LOUIS BIJ-AND, OF CHICAGO, ILL'INOS.

ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY-CARD HOLDER.A

Specification of Letters Patent. Patmaed Maty 1W, 191C.

Application filed July 14, 1909. Serial 170..'507558.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, Louis BLAND,citizen of the'United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful lm* provements j in yAdjustable Display-Card Holders, of which the following 1s a specilication.

This invention relates to signs, and refers articularly to a device for holding disglay cardsin various positions.

An object of this invention is to provide a A frame for supporting display cards of various sizes and forms and to support such display vcards by engaging the same about the edges thereof.`

The inventionhas for another object the provision of a support of this nature which may be adjusted into various angles in order to dispose the display card in the desired position.

The invention further -contemplates the production of a holder of this nature which is of 'comparatively simple construction,

which'can -`therefore be economically produced and presented to the public, and which, at the same time possess the features of strength, durability and being easy of operation.

For a full understanding of the `invention and the merits thereof, and also to `obtain a knowledge of the details of construction, and the means for effecting the result, rei-l erence is to be had to the following descrip?.

tion and accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the corn'- plete holder having a display card disposed therein; Fig. 2 is affront elevation of the frame of the holder detached and disposed as being adjusted into a diil'erent poslticn; .Fig. 3 is a vertical 'longitudina through one of the side bars of the frame;`

section Fig. 4 is a section through the line 4-4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a transverse section onthe line 6 6 oi Fig. 1, disclosing thesstandard as secured to the frame; Fig, 7 discloses a slight modification of one of the side bars.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to ih the following description, and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings, by the same reference characters.

erring to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates a base which is preferably of disk formation, and having an u per convex surface. Extending upward rom the central portion of the base 10 is a tube 11 which forms the lower end of a telescopic standard, within the upper end of which is slidably disposed a rod 12 adjusted within the tubular member through the medium of a set screw 18. The support thus formed is provided with a sleeve 14 mounted upon the upper extremity of the rod12 and which carries the fork 'arms 15 which are curved oppositely and semicircularly and provided with a set screw 16 for the purpose of clamping the frame of the holder in adjusted position therein, the frame being hereinafter described.

The frame of the holder comprises a rectangular member, the side' bars of which samprise . longitudinal 4split tubes 17 and 18 which are disposed in telescopic relation to admit of the adjusting of the' framel into various sizes.v For the purpose of retaining the split tubes 17 and 18 slidably in engagement with one another, and for the purpose of bracing the side bars of the frame, bands 19 and 20 are employed which are engaged about thek outer faces of the tubes 17 and 18 in registered relation with the inner extremities of the tubes. The band 19 is positioned about the tube 17 in registered relation with the inner extremity of the tube 18, the ends of the band 19 being turned inwardly about the edges of the tubes 17 and 18 and engaged against the inner face of-thetube 18.v The inturned portions 21 of the band 19 are soldered or otherwise secured to the inner end of the tube 18 whereby the band 19 is causedv to move with the tube 18 'to retain the tube 18 in fixed relation within the tube 17. The band 20 is engaged rigidly about the inner end of the over-lapping tube 17 and secured to the tube 17 by solder or other suitable fastening means, the band 20 having its free ends bent inwardly as at 22, about the edges of the tubes 17 and 18 in order to retainthe end of the tube 17 from spreading, or from disengagement with the tube 18 in any In the formation of the frame the side bars, which are composed of the tubes 17 and 18 are secured together at the corners of the frames in any suitable manner, and are preferably reinforced by corner irons 23. The .tubes 17 and 18 are so located in the within the opposite open ends of a sleeve or collar 27. l The sleeve or collar 27 is of such a size as to bind frictionally upon the outer faces of the tubes 25 and 26 and to retain the same adjustably in position.

ln operation the tubes 17 and 18 are grasped in the hands and drawn apart to enlarge the frame, to admit of the insertion ofthe display card 24 within the tubes 17 and 18engaging the edges of the display card 24 through the longitudinal slots formed in the tubes 17 and 18." rllhe tubes are now contracted to reduce the size of the frame whereby the side bars engage against and about the edges of the placard' 24 to rigidly support the same within the frame. The frame is now engaged upon the standard, dis osing one of the cylindrically formed slde bars between the forked arms 15 and the set screw 16 against the side barosition i ception of the edges of a placard, bands carried on the outer faces of said tubes 'and secured to the o posite inner ends of the same, a standar engaged with said tubes to support said frame and a base located on the lower end of said standard.

2.v A holder including a frame, composed of side bars, each of said side bars formed of a pair of split tubes disposed in telescopic relation, the outer of said tubes carrying a band rigidly secured to the inner end thereof, inturned portions formed on said band for engagement through the splitportions ofthe tubes, a second band carried byv said outer tube and secured tothe inner tube at the split portion thereof, and inturned portions forrned upon said second band for en' gagement against the inner face of the inner of said tubes. y

3. A holder including a support, forli arms carried by said support, a frame formed of cylindrical side bars adjustably engaged between said fork arms and means carriedby said fork armsl for securing said frame in adjusted position.

4. ln a holder the combination with a support, of fork arms carried by said support7 a frame formed of cylindrical side bars adjustably i mounted between said fork arms and means for securing said frame in position.

ln testimony whereof l ax my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Louis Braun. [a a] Witnesses ABE Sanlnsirr, T. Sra'rz.

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