Advertising/promotional display system and mailer
AssigneeStructural Graphics, LLC
InventorErik S. Hluchan
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Abstract
By providing a housing and a cooperating slider member cooperatively associated with each other, with the slider member being removable from the housing for simultaneously activating the housing to automatically form a three-dimensional object, a unique, hands-on, printed, visually exciting and interest generating advertising/promotional product is attained which can be used for a wide variety of promotions, including use as a mailer. The system of the present invention provides an exciting and surprising result which is not anticipated by the user, and can be produced in a wide variety of alternate forms and/or configurations.
Claims18
An advertising/promotional display system comprising:
- A. a housing
- a) comprising a first panel and a second panel with each panel having an exposed surface on which indicia may be displayed, and
- b) being movable between a first, folded, substantially flat, two-dimensional configuration and a second, fully erect, fully displayed;
- three-dimensional configuration;
- B. a slider member
- a) mounted in the housing between the first panel and the second panel in cooperating association therewith, and
- b) movable between a first engaged position, wherein the slider plate is substantially fully retained within the housing, and a second disengaged position wherein the slider plate is fully removed from the housing;
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- C. activation means mounted in the housing in cooperating relationship therewith and constructed for automatically causing the housing to be formed into its second, three-dimensional configuration whenever the slider member is removed therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.