Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Display card – Folded
Patent
1998-03-02
1999-12-28
Green, Brian K.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Display card
Folded
446488, 40720, G09F 100
Patent
active
060064579
ABSTRACT:
A polyhedrally shaped collapsible ornamental hollow structure having a fully enclosed hollow interior is made from a blank cut from a single sheet of folding board or like sheet material, the blank having a dual cruciform (Greek cross-like) configuration and being provided with a plurality of longitudinal, transverse and oblique scores to enable it to be folded and glued. The hollow structure remains in the collapsed state as long as a restraining pressure is applied thereto in a direction substantially perpendicular to the opposite front and back faces of the hollow structure, but when such restraining pressure is removed the hollow structure is automatically deployed into its expanded state by virtue of a compressive force applied circumferentially to the hollow structure by an elastic band equatorially encircling the sides of the hollow structure. The blank at the intersections of its respective longitudinal and transverse blank portions has respective central square regions defining the front and back faces of the hollow structure, and each central square region is surrounded by a series of outer right triangular regions defining the side faces of the hollow structure. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the central square region defining at least the front face of the hollow structure is provided with slits in its corner regions to permit a photograph to be releasably attached to the hollow structure.
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Green Brian K.
Holler Norbert P.
Kaden Jeffrey M.
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