Portable display device with integral support foot

• US 7,293,380 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2006
• Issued: 11/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Royal Consumer Products LLC (Mafcote Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Royal Consumer Products LLC (Mafcote Incorporated)
• Inventors: Repecki, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis; Cassandra
• Application Number:
  US11/524,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20070151132A1
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• Field of Search: 401/241.2, 401/241.7, 401/241.5, 405/39, 407/50, 407/54, 407/55, 248/459, 248/460, 248/463, 248/465
• US Class Current: 40/124.12
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/14 in the form of legs

Abstract

A portable display device has a rectangular center panel having a top edge, a bottom edge, two side hinges and a back, with first and second rectangular side panels respectively hingedly connected to the center panel by the two side hinges thereof. A support foot has a base hingedly connected to the bottom edge of the center panel and foldable to lie adjacent the back of the center panel, and first and second legs hingedly connected to the base and deployable extending rearwardly from the base and configured for releasable interconnection spaced from the base, thereby to maintain the support foot in a configuration extending rearwardly from the center panel and supporting the center and side panels in an upright position. The first and second side panels are foldable onto the display surface side of the center panel, and the base and legs of the support foot are foldable to lie adjacent the back of the center panel, wherein the portable display device has substantially the width and length of the center panel for transportation and storage.

Claims

1. A portable display device comprising:

A) a center panel having a top edge, a bottom edge, two side hinges and a back;

B) first and second side panels respectively hingedly connected to the center panel by the two side hinges thereof, the center panel and first and second side panels together having a front display surface; and

C) a support foot having

1) a base hingedly connected to the bottom edge of the center panel and foldable to lie adjacent the back of the center panel, and

2) first and second legs hingedly connected to the base and deployable extending rearwardly from the base and configured for releasable interconnection spaced from the base, thereby to maintain the support foot in a configuration extending rearwardly from the center panel and supporting the center and side panels in an upright position.

2. A portable display device as defined in claim 1 wherein the center panel is rectangular having a width and a height, the first and second side panels are foldable onto the display surface side of the center panel, and the base and legs of the support foot are foldable to lie adjacent the back of the center panel, wherein the portable display device has substantially the width and length of the center panel for transportation and storage.

3. A portable display device as defined in claim 2 wherein the first and second side panels have a height substantially equal to the height of the center panel and they each have a width of one-half or less the width of the center panel.

4. A portable display device as defined in claim 1 fabricated from a unitary sheet of corrugated paper board.

5. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the side hinges of the center panel connecting the side panels are creases formed from the back of the corrugated paper board.

6. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the side hinges of the center panel connecting the side panels are slits formed from the back of the unitary corrugated stock.

7. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the support foot is removable from the center panel.

8. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the base is hingedly connected to the bottom edge of the center panel by a perforated fold line, such that the support foot can be removed from the center panel by tearing the perforated fold line.

9. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the base of the support foot is a single panel of the corrugated paper board.

10. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the hinged connections between the base and the first and second legs are creases in the paper stock.

11. A portable display device as defined in claim 4 wherein the base is hingedly connected to the bottom edge of the center panel by a perforated fold line, such that the support foot can be removed from the center panel by tearing the perforated fold line.

12. A portable display device as defined in claim 1 wherein one of the legs defines a tongue at its distal end and the other support leg defines a slot adjacent its distal end for receiving the tongue for releasably interconnecting the legs.

13. A portable display device as defined in claim 1 wherein the legs have intermediary fold lines separating each of the respective legs into a leg spacer portion and a distal portion.

14. A portable display device as defined in claim 12 wherein at least one leg folds at the fold line separating the leg spacer portion and distal portion for transportation and storage of the portable display device.

15. A portable display device form of unitary corrugated paper board comprising:

A) a rectangular center panel having a top edge, a bottom edge, two side hinges and a back, the center panel having a width and a height;

B) first and second rectangular side panels respectively hingedly connected to the center panel by the two side hinges thereof, the rectangular side panels each having a height substantially the same as the height of the center panel and a width substantially one half of the width of the center panel, the center panel and first and second side panels together having a front display surface; and

C) a support foot having

1) a base hingedly connected to the bottom edge of the center panel and foldable to lie adjacent the back of the center panel, and

2) first and second legs hingedly connected to the base and deployable extending rearwardly from the base, one of the legs having a slot near its distal end and the other of the legs having a tab insertable in the slot for releasable interconnection spaced from the base, thereby, to maintain the support foot in a configuration extending rearwardly from the center panel and supporting the center and side panels in an upright position, wherein the first and second side panels foldable onto the display surface side of the center panel, and the base and legs of the support foot are foldable to lie adjacent the back of the center panel, such that the portable display device has substantially the width and length of the center panel for transportation and storage.