Combined advertising and display device

May 28, 1935. r. J. carbon i 2,003,244

COMBINED ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY DEVICE

Filed Nov. 30, 1934

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Patented May 28, 1935

2,003,244

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

2,003,244

COMBINED ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY DEVICE

Ralph J. Carboni, New Orleans, La.

Application November 30, 1934, Serial No. 755,481

This invention relates to a combined advertising and display device, bracket or shelf, or it can be used as a placard without being folded to form the shelf or bracket.

It is an object of this invention to utilize a sheet of flexible material of sufficient thickness and strength to support the weight of material being displayed or held thereby, it being understood, as stated, that the sheet may be used as 10 a placard to display advertising matter when suspended from an object in the wall or sheathing of a house or the like.

It is a further object of this invention preferably to use cardboard and to provide it with 15 means whereby it may be held in positions of adjustment when folded, in carrying out the purposes heretofore indicated.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construc20 tion and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention , in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying rirayzing 23 forming part of this application, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which—

Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of a blank cut and scored for use in shaping and holding it as 30 a display device;

Figure 2 illustrates a side elevation thereof.

In this drawing the cardboard or other stock is shown as rectangular in plan and its surface may contain advertising when it is to be used 35 as a placard. The material is provided with slits 5 and 6 in suitably spaced relation to each edge, extending from what would be the upper edge 7 of the material, and when the marginal portions beyond the slits are severed, they form 4θ tongues 8 and 9 which can be bent downwardly to form brackets for supporting the shelf portion IS which results from bending the sheet on the dotted line 11. The sheet is bent on the dotted line 12 so that that portion therebelow will form a flange 13 which may be positioned at approximately right angles to the shelf.

Each tongue 8 and 9 has a slit 14 extending from its outer edge to a location about cen₅₀ trally its width and a tab or ear 15 thus results at the outer end of each tongue. The flange 13 has slits 16 through which a tab of each tongue is extended and the slit 14 of the tongue permits an interlocking of the tab with the said flange 55 and serves to retain the parts in proper position

Claims. (Cl. 211—88) when they are assembled to form the display bracket or shelf.

As assembled in Fig. 2, a shelf or bracket is produced which will serve to display commodities regardless of their character, within predeter- κ mined bounds, and obviously, that portion of the material forming the shelf can be of increased dimensions as compared with those shown in the drawing, that is to say, the shelf may be wider and the front flange may be higher or ₁₀lower, without departing from the scope of the invention, and of course the dimensions of the brackets may be modified to suit particular requirements.

Since it is possible to produce the device by .well known cutting and stamping processes, the ⁵cost of manufacture will be comparatively small.

It is also possible by the use of this invention to shape the lower portion of the blank in semicylindrical form or at least curved instead of. _9nhaving the angular configuration to produce the ²⁰shelf. When the invention is so used, the blank need not have angular bends, but the bends may be symmetrical so that a semi-cylindrical pocket or support would result from inserting the ends of the brackets in the slits near the ²⁵lower end of the said blank.