Portable device for displaying and dispensing card-like members
OwnerMelody Foxinventor
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Abstract
A portable device for displaying dispensing card-like members includes a generally rectangular box having a display storage cavity formed adjacent its forward wall for supporting card-like member in a vertical position for visible display. A main storage cavity is provided for storing a reserve supply of additional card-like members in a vertical position from which they may be easily dispensed. A support plate is removably attachable to the rear surface of the box, and the support plate in turn may be securely attached to a vertical support surface.
Claims11
A portable device for displaying one card-like member in a vertical position for visible display and for storing a reserve supply of additional card-like members in a vertical position from which they may be easily dispensed, the device comprising:
- an open-topped generally rectangular box having side walls, a front wall, and a rear wall, and having a display cavity parallel to its front wall formed in part by a pair of slots in its side walls adjacent to its front wall for supporting the one card-like member to be displayed;
- the box having a bottom wall forming the bottom of a main storage cavity to hold the vertically oriented reserve supply of card-like members, the bottom wall also having a downwardly offset portion forming the bottom of the display cavity;
- a support plate adapted to removably support the rear wall of the box, the support plate and the rear wall of the box having interengaging fastening means formed therein;
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- means for removably securing the support plate to a vertical support surface.
A portable device for displaying card-like members, comprising:
- an open-topped generally rectangular box having side walls, a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, the box having a pair of ridges on its side walls adjacent and parallel to its front wall providing grooves behind the front wall, and the front wall being transparent, whereby one of the card-like members may be vertically disposed in a visually displayed position behind the front wall but in front of the side wall ridges, the space behind the ridges then providing a main storage cavity adapted to hold a vertically oriented reserve supply of the card-like members;
- a support plate adapted to support the rear wall of the box, the support plate and the rear surface of the rear wall of the box having interengaging fastening means for removably securing the box to the support plate;
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- means on the support plate for securing it to a vertical support surface.
A portable device for displaying card-like members, comprising:
- an open-topped generally rectangular box having side walls, a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, the box having a pair of ridges on its side walls adjacent and parallel to its front wall providing grooves behind the front wall, and the front wall being transparent, and the bottom wall sloping upward from the front wall toward the rear wall, whereby one of the card-like members may be vertically disposed in a visually displayed position behind the front wall but in front of the side wall ridges, the space behind the ridges then providing a main storage cavity adapted to hold a vertically oriented reserve supply of the card-like members, so that the upper edges of the reserve card-like members in the main storage cavity rise in a stair-stepped configuration;
- a support plate adapted to support the rear wall of the box, the support plate and the rear surface of the rear wall of the box having interengaging fastening means for removably securing the box to the support plate;
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- means on the support plate for securing it to a vertical support surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.