Three dimensional paper structure enclosed in a transparent box

• US 5,157,852 A
• Filed: 05/02/1991
• Issued: 10/27/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis G. Patrou, Phelps, John D.
• Original Assignee: Louis G. Patrou, Phelps, John D.
• Inventors: Phelps, John D., Patrou, Louis G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cranmer, Laurie K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE
• Application Number:
  US07/697,919
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 40/160
• US Class Current: 40/800
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/08 wholly or partly imitating the form of an object, e.g. of the article to be advertised

Abstract

A three-dimensional sculpture comprised of a product in the family of paper, the sculpture being comprised of a generally vertical background; a platform extending at an angle from the background; a plurality of characters attachable to at least the platform such the background, platform and characters form a three dimensional sculpture from front, side and angled views thereof.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a three-dimensional transparent housing having sides and a sculpture formed from paper products enclosed within said housing, said sculpture comprising a single sheet folded into a plurality of panels.

said sheet having a first vertical panel having a bottom edge and a top edge, said first panel disposed adjacent to a rear side of said housing,

a second vertical panel connected to said top edge of said first panel along a first fold line and disposed in a generally vertical parallel relationship to said first panel,

a third generally horizontal panel having a forward, a rear, a left side edge, and a right side edge, said rear edge of said third panel connected to a second panel along a second fold line in a generally perpendicular relationship,

said forward edge of said third panel connected to a fourth vertical panel in perpendicular relationship along a third fold line,

a fifth horizontal panel having a forward and a rear edge, said forward edge of said fifth panel connected to said fourth panel in a perpendicular relationship along a fourth fold line, said fifth panel extending such that said rear edge of said fifth panel meets with said bottom edge of said first panel,

a sixth and a seventh vertical panel connected to said right and left side edges, respectively, of the third panel in a perpendicular relationship such that the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh panels form a generally rectangular base structure,

means for securing a plurality of characters to at least said second and third panels,

indicia adapted to be disposed on said characters,

a foam-like material disposed within said rectangular base structure, such that said characters are visible from all sides of said housing except the rear and a bottom side of said housing,

and indicia disposed on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh panels such that indicia is visible from all sides of said transparent housing.