Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Holder
Patent
1997-02-05
2000-12-12
Davis, Cassandra H.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Holder
335285, 211DIG1, G09F 318
Patent
active
061581577
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to the art of promotional articles for use in restaurants, bars or the like establishments and in particular to those promotional articles which are suspended from the ceiling or the like and present an enlarged replica of items such as a bottle of a particular brand of a beverage, a glass of beer or the like. In its preferred embodiment, the invention is directed to the replicas of the beverage bottle caps such as beer bottle caps.
PRIOR ART
Promotional articles which present enlarged replicas of various products have long been known. The suspended promotional articles are often preferred as they catch the customers' attention more readily than articles such as posters. These promotional articles are often produced at a substantial cost to the manufacturer. It is therefore desirable that they attract attention of consumers such as restaurant or bar patrons.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to further increase the attractiveness of the articles of the above type.
In general terms, the present invention provides a promotional article for use in restaurants, bars and the like establishments. The invention presents a combination of (a) a decorative casing having exterior surface thereof adapted to carry promotional material; (b) magnetic field generating means disposed in and secured to said casing adapted to generate a magnetic field having power sufficient to suspend a cluster of discarded metallic objects exteriorly thereof adapted to maintain same in a suspended state; (c) said decorative casing being adapted to visually conceal the generating means but to allow attraction of the discarded objects to same from below.
Thus, the article provides a generally continuous display of the replica of a beer bottle cap while permitting accumulation of discarded beer bottle caps in a cluster at a location which appears to be said casing, The cluster provides additional and unusual visual feature further attracting the attention to the promotional article and thus to the promoted product.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will now be described by way of a prototype and of a preferred embodiment, with reference to the accompanying simplified diagrammatic drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is an exploded view of a prototype of the present invention with the parts shown in a side view and partly in section, indicative of how the different parts are assembled;
FIG. 2 is a side view of the promotional article in assembled form, with certain parts omitted for clarity;
FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the representation of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a simplified, diagrammatic perspective similar to that of FIG. 4, with certain parts removed; and
FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic, partial view of the arrangement of FIG. 4 taken on section VI--VI of FIG. 4 with certain parts omitted.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Turning firstly to FIG. 1, reference number 10 designates a ferrous metal housing made from low carbon cast steel. In the embodiment shown, the housing is made from cast iron. The housing is comprised of a solid inverse bottom portion 11 integral with a downwardly dependent annular skirt 12. At the bottom outer portion, the skirt 12 defines a peripheral rim 13 at a maximum outer diameter portion 14.
The housing 10 and in particular the axial length thereof and the maximum diameter portion 14 are determined such as to provide for a snug fit in a casing 15 presenting an enlarged replica of a beer bottle cap. The casing 15 also has an inverse bottom portion 16 and an annular, downwardly dependent skirt portion 17 which displays corrugations imitating the crimps of a beer bottle cap. As shown in the drawings, e.g. FIGS. 1 and 2, the ratio, of the diameter of the flat bottom portion 16, to the length of the skirt portion 17 of the casing 15, is about 4:1, generally corresponding to the ratio in a regular beer bottle cap. The interior of the casing 15 is large enough to fully accommo
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Davis Anthony Gregg
Hiscock William Steven
1011632 Ontario Inc.
Davis Cassandra H.
Oliver Milton
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