Newspaper display machine

A display machine for publications, comprising a housing in the form of a piece of elongate sheet metal having two elongate parallel side edges and two parallel end edges interconnecting said side edges, said piece of metal being bent in four places parallel to said end edges to form a seamless top surface, and two seamless side surfaces, said end edges being welded together to form a single-seamed bottom surface, and front and back walls secured to said bent piece of metal adjacent respective ones of said side edges, said back wall being solid to close off the back of said housing and said front wall including an opening, and an operable door disposed across said opening, said door incuding a window therein.

In a method of making a display machine for publications comprising the steps of:

• providing a sheet of metal having parallel elongate side edges and parallel end edges interconnecting said side edges,
• bending said metal pieces at four locations parallel to said end edges to form a seamless top surface and two seamless side surfaces, welding said end edges together to form a single-seamed bottom surface, and attaching a non-solid front wall and a solid back wall to said piece of metal adjacent respective ones of said side edges to close-off the back of the housing while enabling a display machine to be inserted into an opening of said front wall.

A newspaper display machine comprising:

• a housing defining an interior compartment for newspapers,
• a door mounted on said housing for providing access to said housing interior, said door including a transparent window, and
• a holder formed of transparent material mounted on an inner side of said door for retaining a display newspaper against said window to be viewed from the outside, said holder being yieldably biased toward said window and being manually displaceable away from said window against said bias to permit a display newspaper to be positioned between said holder and said window, said holder including means for engaging upper and lower portions of the display newspaper when said holder rebounds toward said window to press the upper and lower portions of the newspaper against said window, a first portion of said holder located adjacent an anchored end of said holder extending away from said window and merging with a second portion of said holder extending toward said window.

A display newspaper machine for newspapers and the like comprising:

• a housing defining an interior compartment for newspapers,
• a door mounted on said housing for providing access to said housing interior, said door including a transparent window, and
• a holder mounted on an inner side of said door for retaining a display newspaper against said window to be viewed from the outside, said holder being yieldably biased toward said window and being manually displaceable away from said window against said bias to permit a display newspaper to be positioned between said holder and said window, said holder including means for engaging a portion of the display newspaper when said holder rebounds toward said window to press the display newspaper against said window, said holder formed of a flexible material and anchored adjacent one end in cantilever fashion to be flexible away from said window.