Business card display holder
First Claim
1. A display holder for presenting a supply of business cards for individual distribution comprising a unitary member of transparent semi-rigid thermoplastic material formed in business card-sized lengths, the member in cross-section defining a channel having an open top, a display face, a supporting bottom, and a back;
- the lengths having open sides, the display face being rectangular and about the size of a business card;
the channel including a unitary elongate finger connected to the channel back near its top, having a free edge extending toward the channel bottom and resiliently sprung toward the display face;
the elongate finger being sufficiently flexible to be deflected toward the channel back to allow insertion of a stack of business cards into the channel for support on the channel bottom and protection by the display face while the finger biases the stack of business cards against the display face; and
the elongate finger having sufficient resilience to continue to bias the cards against the display face as cards are removed from the stack until the stack is depleted to as few as one card.
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Abstract
A display holder, which conveniently presents a supply of business cards for individual distribution, is formed of a unitary extrusion of transparent semi-rigid thermoplastic material. The extrusion defines a channel having open sides and an open top, and a bottom for supporting the business cards. A resilient finger, also extruded with the channel, is attached to the back and has a card-supporting edge sprung toward the front which forms a display face. The finger is attached to the back with a connection sufficiently resilient to allow insertion of a full stack of business cards in the holder, while retaining sufficient flexibility to continue to bias the cards against the face of the holder, even when the supply of cards is depleted to as few as one.
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1. A display holder for presenting a supply of business cards for individual distribution comprising a unitary member of transparent semi-rigid thermoplastic material formed in business card-sized lengths, the member in cross-section defining a channel having an open top, a display face, a supporting bottom, and a back;
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the lengths having open sides, the display face being rectangular and about the size of a business card; the channel including a unitary elongate finger connected to the channel back near its top, having a free edge extending toward the channel bottom and resiliently sprung toward the display face; the elongate finger being sufficiently flexible to be deflected toward the channel back to allow insertion of a stack of business cards into the channel for support on the channel bottom and protection by the display face while the finger biases the stack of business cards against the display face; and the elongate finger having sufficient resilience to continue to bias the cards against the display face as cards are removed from the stack until the stack is depleted to as few as one card. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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- 8. A method for making business card display holders adapted to support the top business card in a stack of business cards ranging from one to many business cards against a face of the display holder, while assuring that the top business card is supported against the face of the display holder, the method of comprising the steps of extruding in a single operation a three-sided channel having a display face, bottom and back, with an integral resilient finger attached to the back, extruding a hinge connecting the resilient finger to the back of the channel to provide the finger with sufficient resiliency to support a single card against the face or many cards in a stack without fatigue over many cycles, and cutting the so-formed extrusion into a plurality of individual business cards sized display units.
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