Display device with overlapping cards

• US 4,058,220 A
• Filed: 05/12/1976
• Issued: 11/15/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Borden Inc. (Bakelite UK TopCo Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Borden Inc. (Bakelite UK TopCo Ltd.)
• Inventors: Torongo, Albert Henry
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis, Terrell P.
• Application Number:
  US05/685,642
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 206/461-463, 206/465-471, 206/498, 206/497, 206/493, 206/806, 248/223, 248/224, 248/225, 248/DIG. 3, 211/49-59, 211/105.1, 211/123, D 9/191, D 9/192
• US Class Current: 211/57.1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/36 one sheet or blank being recessed and the other formed of relatively stiff flat sheet material, e.g. blister packages , the recess or recesses being preformed B65D73/0057, B65D73/0092 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/366 and forming one compartment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/806 Suspension

Abstract

Display cards for thick packages such as tubes of cement are provided with an off-center hole for hanging on a pin and with a clipped upper corner that allows overlapping of the cards, close spacing, and simultaneous display of adjacent tubes of product.

Claims

1. A display device and a plurality of overlapping display packages thereon comprising;

a. a board having a plurality of pegs arranged side by side in a row, said pegs being suitable for supporting display packages;

b. a plurality of display packages each of which includes an article of merchandise secured to a card, each of said cards being of a uniform width and having an off-center hole near one upper corner for accepting one of said pegs and a clipped corner at the opposite upper corner of the card, said article of merchandise being positioned off-center at that side wherein said off-center hole is located, said display packages being suspended on said pegs in multiple layers of overlapping cards, the distance between holes of adjacent suspended cards being less than the overall width of a single card, and each card being suspended from a single peg through its off-center hole with the clipped corner of the card being immediately adjacent the adjoining peg, whereby at least one of said articles remaining on any one of said pegs is entirely exposed to view.

2. The display device of claim 1 wherein the distance between adjacent pegs is not more than one-half the width of a single card.

3. The display device of claim 1 wherein the cards are generally vertical and the height of the card is greater than the width and the articles of merchandise are secured to the card at one side of the card and generally vertically.