Display card or mount

• US 4,965,946 A
• Filed: 05/19/1989
• Issued: 10/30/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Saleh Absullah Kamel
• Original Assignee: Leslie J. Hegedus
• Inventors: Hegedus, Leslie J., Grove, Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hakomaki, J.
• Application Number:
  US07/299,258
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 40/124.1, 40/124.2, 40/124.4, 40/538, 40/539, 40/152.1, 40/154, 40/156, 248/150, 248/152, 248/174, 248/166, 248/459, 248/460, 248/463
• US Class Current: 40/124.4
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/06 to be erected in three dimensions G09F1/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/14 in the form of legs

Abstract

A member of sheet material has cut out portions and fold lines, so that when it is folded up and central areas attached together to form a spine display areas are provided in different planes. The display area may be used to display a photograph or picture having with any one of a large range of sizes. The bottom edge of the member may have a V-shaped cut-out so that it leans back slightly when erected.

Claims

1. A member comprising a sheet of material for making a display card or mount comprising a central fold line extending across said sheet to its periphery, wherein there are provided a plurality of further fold lines at each side of said central fold line and parallel thereto, said further fold lines having ends spaced from the periphery of said sheet, and a plurality of cut lines extending between said ends of respective ones of said further fold lines, wherein at each side of said central fold line, said central fold line and adjacent ones of said further fold lines at each side of said central fold line define a respective spine area, said spine areas being arranged to engage each other upon folding of said central fold line, and respective areas of said sheet on opposite sides of said spine are arranged to be substantially coplanar upon folding of the remaining fold lines.

2. A member according to claim 1 wherein one or more areas of material are removed from said sheet, at least some of said cut lines comprising some of the edges of said area(s).

3. A member according to claim 1 wherein there are at least first, second and third ones of said further fold lines at each side of said central fold line, said first further fold line defining an edge of said spine area, and being arranged to be folded so that a first area of said sheet at the side of said first further fold line remote from said spine area is, in use, perpendicular to said spine, said first area extending to said second further fold line, said second further fold line being arranged to be folded so that a second area of said sheet at the side of said second further fold line remote from said spine area is, in use, parallel to said spine, said second area extending to said third further fold line, said third further fold line being arranged to be folded so that a third area of said sheet at the side of the third further fold line remmote from said spine area is, in use, perpendicular to said spine.

4. A member according to claim 3, wherein said cut lines and said fold lines are mirror images of each other about said central fold line.

5. A member according claim 1, wherein there is a relatively-shallow V-shaped cut out in the bottom edge of said sheet, the apex of said V-shape coinciding with the bottom end of said central fold line.

6. A member comprising a sheet of material for making a display card or mount comprising a central fold line extending across said sheet to its periphery, wherein there are provided a plurality of further fold lines at each side of said central fold line and parallel thereto, said further fold lines having ends spaced from the periphery of said sheet, and a pluralilty of cut lines extending between said ends of respective ones of said further fold lines, wherein, in use, upon folding the member, respective areas of said sheet on opposite sides of said central fold line are arranged to be substantially coplanar.

7. A member according to claim 6, wherein at each side of said central fold line, said central fold line and adjacent ones of said further fold lines at each side of said central fold line define a respective spine area, said spine areas being arranged to engage each other upon folding of said central fold line.

8. A member according to claim 7 wherein said respective areas of said sheet are arranged to be substantially perpendicular to said spine.

9. A member according to claim 8 wherein there is a relatively-shallow V-shaped cut out in the bottom edge of said sheet, the apex of said V-shape coinciding with the bottom end of said central fold line.

10. A member according to claim 6 wherein one or more areas of material are removed from said sheet, at least some of said cut lines comprising some of the edges of said area(s).