Advertisement tool
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorNorio Mashimo
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Abstract
An advertising tool or sales aid for use in explaining characteristics of a product to a customer, characterized by a case having a top and bottom wall connected by a side wall and being opened at each end and the other side, a plurality of plates which have one end mounted in the case so that the plate can be pivoted from a position in the case to a position extending out of the case. Each of the plates can contain information and/or physical representations, which can be used to stress characteristics of the product being sold.
Claims16
An advertising tool comprising a rectangular-shaped case having a top wall, bottom wall and a side wall connecting the top wall to the bottom wall;
- a plurality of plates;
- and means for rotatably coupling one end of each of the plates to one end of the case for movement between a position with the plates received in the case to a position with the plates being pivoted to extend out of the case, one of said plates supporting a picture panel which is slidably mounted for movement in the longitudinal direction of the plate from a free end of said plate, said plate having a window so that pictures on said picture panel can be viewed from outside as the picture panel is moved in said plate.
An advertising tool comprising a rectangular-shaped case having a top wall, a bottom wall and a side wall connecting said top and bottom walls;
- a plurality of plates;
- and means for rotatably coupling an end of each of said plurality of plates to an end of said case for pivoting on an axis between a position with the plates carried within said case to a position with the plates extending out of said case, one of said plates having a window, and a magnifying lens being mounted in said window.
An advertising tool comprising a rectangular-shaped case having a top wall, a bottom wall and a side wall connecting said top and bottom walls;
- a plurality of plates;
- and means for coupling ends of said plurality of said plates to an end of said case for rotation between a position with the plates received within the case to a position with the plates extending from said means for mounting out of said case, one of said plurality of plates having two mirrors mounted thereon, one of said two mirrors having a cylindrical surface and the other of two mirrors having a spherical surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.