Greeting card and gift display

• US 5,277,307 A
• Filed: 10/05/1992
• Issued: 01/11/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sherwin Kelly
• Original Assignee: Sherwin Kelly
• Inventors: Kelly, Sherwin
• Primary Examiner(s): PRICE, WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US07/956,289
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 217/58, 217/59, 217/62, 217/63, 217/11, 206/45.28, 206/45.14, 206/45.15, 206/232
• US Class Current: 206/772
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/14 Photograph stands
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2200/08 Illumination
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/12 Frames therefor

Abstract

In a representative embodiment of the invention, a display for a gift and greeting card or the like comprises a rigid box having an open front with a finished perimeter. A small gift may be removably positioned within the interior of the box with lighting means positioned adjacent thereto to selectively illuminate the gift. A reversible panel is slidingly movable in grooves formed in side frame members at the box open front to conceal and reveal the gift as desired. A multi-page greeting card may be positioned forwardly of the panel in the grooves with the back page thereof including a hole through which the panel, and subsequently the gift, may be viewed upon removal of the panel.

Claims

1. A gift display and holder comprising:

a) a substantially rectangular box having a bottom and four side walls extending therefrom to form an open top;

b) first, second and third, elongated frame members integrally traversing the edges of three of said side walls, respectively, adjacent said open top, each of said frame members including a groove longitudinally formed and extending along the surfaces of said frame members located adjacent said open top and lying in planes perpendicular to said bottom wall;

c) a panel of substantially rectangular outline having three of four edges slidably movable within said grooves in said three side walls, respectively, said panel being movable between a fully inserted position completely covering said open top, and a fully withdrawn position separated from said box, said panel having first and second, opposite planar surfaces with said panel being reversible with respect to said box where either one of said first and second surfaces may be selectively positioned to face outwardly in a direction away from said box when said panel is moved to said inserted position; and

d) a fourth elongated frame member attached to and traversing the fourth of said four edges of said panel, the ends of said frame members being mitered to form four 90°

angles with each other when said panel is in said inserted position.

2. The invention according to claim 1 wherein at least one of said panel first and second surfaces includes a covering affixed thereto.

3. The invention according to claim 2 and further comprising a rigid insert having first and second walls lying in planes disposed at an acute angle to each other, said insert being removably positioned within said box interior with one of said first and second walls lying in covering relation to one of said box side walls, and the other of said one of said first and second walls extending from said front perimeter to said bottom wall.

4. The invention according to claim 3 and further comprising first and second coverings affixed to said panel first and second surfaces.