PHOTO BLOCK

• US 3,703,045 A
• Filed: 01/18/1971
• Issued: 11/21/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Morton Nyman
• Original Assignee: Morton Nyman
• Inventors: Nyman, Morton
• Primary Examiner(s): Schnall, Jerome
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US05/107,306
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 46/24 40/10,1D,152,152.1
• US Class Current: 40/720
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/14 Photograph stands
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2001/145 Picture cubes

Abstract

A photo display device is constructed of a transparent, closed cube-shaped shell in which a side of the shell is removable, by sliding movement in the plane thereof, for mounting of pictures against all six interior surfaces of the shell.

Claims

1. A picture display device comprising a closed shell defined by a plurality of connected flat transparent face sections, first means inside of said shell constructed to maintain individual pictures adjacent the interior surfaces of each of said sections, second means removably connecting a first of said sections to the remaining sections of said display device by mounting said first section for sliding movement in the plane thereof, said remaining sections being fixedly connected to define an enclosure which removably receives said first means, said first means comprising a hollow block having outer surfaces of substantially the same size and shape as the volume defined by the interior surfaces of said sections, said block having shoulders along all edges thereof to closely space the exterior faces of said block from the interior surfaces of said sections to provide shallow picture receiving pockets adjacent each of the interior surfaces of said sections.

2. A picture display device as set forth in claim 1, in which all of the face sections are substantially equal in size and for each of said sections the edges are of equal length.

3. A picture display device as set forth in claim 1, in which the number of said sections is four.

4. A picture display device as set forth in claim 3, in which said second means includes guide formations in said first section which cooperate with complementary guide formations in others of said sections, said first section being slidably removable along a path defined by said guide formations.

5. A picture display device as set forth in claim 1, in which the number of said sections is six.