Foldable card assembly for displaying selected photos or the like
OwnerRonald Swankinventor
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Abstract
A card assembly for selectively displaying photos or the like, which is normally in a folded state such that at least one of the photos or the like is then hidden from view, but which upon being unfolded into an open state will permit the normally hidden photo or the like to then be visibly displayed.
Claims10
A foldable card assembly for selectively displaying a normally hidden photo or the like, comprising:
- a generally rectangular front card member having a pair of side edges and being transversely divided along a line parallel to its side edges to form two separate front card pieces of substantially equal size and shape;
- the front card member being adapted to display a first photo or the like thereon with two separate portions of the first photo or the like being supported on respective front card pieces, such that both front card pieces may occupy a first common plane with the first photo or the like being then visibly displayed as a unit;
- a back support card member having a flat configuration and being of essentially the same size and shape as each of the separate front card pieces, the back support card member being disposed behind the front card member;
- the back support card member extending laterally behind each of the front card pieces and having its respective side edges hingedly secured to the lateral centers of respective ones of the front card pieces;
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- such that when the front card pieces are rotated by one hundred eighty degrees relative to each other and to the back card member to occupy a second and different common plane, a normally hidden second photo or the like which is supported on the front surface of the back card member will then be visibly displayed.
A card member having various portions thereof which are selectively foldable relative to each other upon which photos or the like may be mounted, and having multiple different states of folded relationships in which different ones of the photos or the like are displayed.
An elongated rectangular card member for selectively displaying photos or the like, having a central portion and two end portions, each end portion comprising a quarter of its length and the two end portions being foldable inwardly into abutting relationship with each other so as to cover the central portion of the card member;
- the central portion having a securement area on each of the four corners of its front surface, each securement area being rectangular and one-quarter of the length and one-quarter of the width of the central portion of the card member;
- each end portion of the card being folded over the central portion of the card member and being secured by gluing or the like to the two associated securement areas of the central portion of the card member to form an operable photo display assembly;
- the photo display assembly thus formed being foldable both longitudinally and transversely along the edges of the four securement areas.
A display assembly for selectively displaying a normally hidden photo or the like, comprising:
- a generally rectangular card member folded on parallel lines three-eighths of its length from each of its ends to permit bending movements relative to the remaining one-quarter length central portion of the card member;
- the card member further being permanently folded on lines one-quarter of its length from each of its ends, the thus-folded end portions being folded towards each other and also towards the respective immediately adjacent one-eighth length portions of the card member;
- each thus-formed one-eighth length portion of the card member being permanently secured in face-to-face engagement with the associated one-quarter length end portion;
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- the end portions and their associated one-eighth length portions being swingable together along the respective bending lines by one hundred eighty degrees relative to the card central portion;
- whereby a photo or the like that is to be normally hidden may be positioned either on the central card portion and its contiguous one-eighth length portions, or else on the central card portion and the uncovered adjacent but non-contiguous surfaces of the respective end portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.