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US 12,293,678 B2Granted
Pop-up with slide lock
AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorCharles Robert Kelly
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Abstract
A pop-up with slide lock mechanism is provided which moves between a first position, wherein the pop-up is in a flat, unfolded position, and a second position, wherein the pop-up is in an unfolded, upright or three-dimensional (3D) configuration by sliding one panel along part of the pop-up structure.
Claims18
A pop-up structure comprising;
- a main structure having four subpanels arranged in a square or rectangular arrangement;
- a roof structure comprising a panel with a bifurcating fold-line that creates a first subpanel and a second subpanel, the first subpanel having two parallel elongate slots thereon;
- a faux roof panel attached to the main structure and to a portion of the first subpanel of the roof structure between the two elongate slots thereon;
- wherein the faux roof panel can slide along the portion of the first subpanel of the roof structure between the two elongate slots on the first subpanel of the roof structure;
- wherein movement of the faux roof panel overtop the first subpanel of the roof structure along the two parallel elongate slots, causes the pop-up structure to move between a first position, wherein the pop-up structure is in a folded, flat configuration, and a second position, wherein the pop-up structure is in an unfolded, upright configuration.
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A pop-up structure comprising:
- a main structure having an open top and four sides;
- a roof structure having a first panel and a second panel arranged in a pitched or A-line configuration, the roof structure attached to a top surface of the main structure forming a closed-top main structure;
- the first panel of the roof structure having two elongate spaced apart slots thereon;
- a faux roof panel having an open loop on an inside surface thereof which is wrapped around a portion of the first panel of the roof structure that is located between the two elongate spaced apart slots;
- wherein the pop-up structure can move between a first position, wherein the pop-up structure is in a flat, folded configuration and a second position, wherein the pop-up structure is in an unfolded, upright configuration, by sliding the faux roof panel along the two elongate spaced-apart slots on the first panel of the roof structure.
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A pop-up structure comprising:
- a four-paneled main structure;
- a two-paneled roof structure attached atop the four-paneled main structure, one of the panels of the two-paneled roof structure having two horizontal slots thereon;
- a faux roof panel that is slidably attached to a portion of the two-paneled roof structure between the two horizontal slots;
- wherein the pop-up structure moves between a flat, folded position and an unfolded, three-dimensional configuration by sliding the faux roof panel along the two horizontal slots on the two-paneled roof structure;
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- wherein the faux roof panel conceals the two horizontal slots on the two-paneled roof structure when the pop-up structure is in the unfolded, three-dimensional configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.