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US 5,152,090 AGranted
Pivotless wheel indicia display device
AssigneeGary Jacobsen
InventorRoger V. Jacobsen
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Abstract
An indicia display device is disclosed together with several processes for forming the device from a single piece of paper stock. The device includes a freely rotatable pivotless wheel element having indicia fixed thereon, a circular pocket for pivotlessly and rotatably containing the rotatable wheel element in the circular pocket, a viewing opening through which indicia on the wheel element are selectively visible, and a support guide along the perimeter of the circular pocket which abuts and guides the rotatable wheel element during rotation.
Claims10
An indicia display device comprising:
- a body portion having a front side and a back side;
- a circular pocket disposed within said body portion for pivotlessly containing a rotatable wheel for rotation in said pocket;
- a freely rotatable pivotless wheel within said circular pocket having indicia fixed on a front circular face and having a circular outer periphery free of any outward projection;
- at least one viewing aperture formed in said front side of said body portion through which selected indicia of said indicia on said freely rotatable wheel appear as said wheel is rotated;
- at least one tab integrally formed from said body portion, said tab having at least one side and a base, said tab being folded over along said base, from said front side onto said back side of said body portion, said tab providing support and acting as a guide for said freely rotatable pivotless wheel;
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- said at least one tab being located along the circular perimeter of said circular pocket, said at least one tab abutting and guiding said freely rotatable pivotless wheel during rotation of said wheel.
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