Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Holder
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-08
2001-04-10
Green, Brian K. (Department: 3628)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Holder
C040S661000, C040S661120, C040S665000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06212809
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to the field of indicia supporting apparatus and, more particularly, to apparatus and methods of supporting indicia with a rail carried by supports.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Advertising has long enjoyed considerable innovation by skilled artisans in an effort to efficiently, inexpensively and easily communicate advertising medium to consumers. Although television and radio embody exemplary mechanisms for communicating advertising messages to consumers, they prove very expensive and, for some, prohibitively expensive. Less expensive means of advertising, such as billboards and yellow page advertising, however, prove largely ineffective as an efficient and cost-effective means of advertising. In view of the present apparatus and methods for presenting advertisements to consumers, the need for certain new and useful innovations for reducing the cost and increasing the effectiveness of advertising is evident.
Accordingly, it would be highly desirable to provide improved apparatus and methods for supporting indicia and, more particularly, for supporting advertising indicia.
It is a purpose of the present invention to provide new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia that is easy to construct.
It is another purpose of the present invention to provide new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia that is inexpensive.
It is still another purpose of the present invention to provide new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia that is highly effective for delivering and communicating indicia to consumers.
It is a further purpose of the present invention to provide new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia that may be easily and inexpensively installed with conventional railings.
It is still a further provision of the present invention to decrease the costs of advertising.
It is yet still a further provision of the present invention to provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with an inexpensive alternative to advertising as compared with television, radio and billboard advertising.
It is another purpose of the present invention to provide new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia that is easy to use.
It is still another purpose of the present invention to provide new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia that may be used outside and inside.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The above problems and others are at least partially solved and the above purposes and others are realized in new and improved apparatus for supporting indicia with a rail. In a particular embodiment, apparatus of the present invention comprises a receptacle movable between an open condition for receiving a predetermined length of the rail and a closed condition for enclosing the predetermined length of the rail, and indicia contained by the receptacle adjacent the rail for viewing in the closed condition of the receptacle. The receptacle may contain a window for allowing the indicia to be viewed when supported by the receptacle adjacent the rail in its closed condition.
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Goltry Michael W.
Green Brian K.
Parsons Robert A.
Parsons & Goltry
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