Display sign holder and display sign therefor
AssigneesBruce G. McLeod, Allan R. Fowler
InventorsLeonard N. Albrecht, Steven R. Burke
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Abstract
Disclosed is a display sign holder in the form of a semi-rigid rectangular sheet of optically clear plastic having elongated flat spacing structures extending along its top and bottom margin areas on one side so as to space the plastic sheet from a supporting surface and guide the longitudinal insertion and removal of an elongated display sign therebetween. The spacing structures are flat strips printed with ink on one or both sides to permanently display marginal information or design, and relatively thin transparent adhesive layers are disposed on both sides of the strips to adhere them to the plastic sheet and to the supporting surface.
Claims9
A semi-rigid, sleeve-type display sign holder adapted to conform and adhere to a planar or gently curved supporting surface for holding and displaying an elongated display sign removably inserted longitudinally between said holder and the supporting surface, said display sign holder comprising:
- (a) a semi-rigid substantially flat sheet of optically clear plastic material of substantial thickness, said sheet having an elongated rectangular configuration, with top and bottom elongated edges extending generally parallel along the length thereof and with opposite ends edges extending transverse to the length thereof;
- and, said sheet also having opposite sides and upper and lower marginal areas extending longitudinally for the full length of said sheet along one side thereof respectively adjacent said top and bottom edges;
- (b) means defining substantially flat, elongated upper and lower spacing structures extending respectively along said upper and lower marginal areas for the full length thereof on said one side of the sheet, said spacing structures each having an outer base surface and having a substantial thickness corresponding approximately to the thickness of said sheet, and thereby so spacing the sheet portion therebetween from any supporting surface against which the outer base surfaces of said spacing structures are placed and defining an elongated open channel of uniform depth corresponding approximately to the thickness of said flat spacing structures into which an elongated display sign may be freely inserted and retained against said supporting surface;
- (c) an upper and lower layer of adhesive extending respectively along the outer base surface of the upper and lower spacing structure for adhering the holder to a supporting surface;
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- (d) upper and lower elongated strips of protective material respectively covering said upper and lower adhesive layers, said protective strips being manually removable to expose the adhesive layers in order to adhere the holder to a supporting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.