Patents Assigned to The Cooperative Marketing Co.
  • Patent number: 4630731
    Abstract: A preformed plastic blank and a brochure holder assembled therefrom. The holder includes a front panel with an adjoining bottom panel and two adjoining side panels. Adjoining each side panel is a back panel. Each panel has a raised center portion to provide for enhanced torsional rigidity, and the adjoining panels have perforations at their common edges. To facilitate access to the brochures, the bottom panel has an inclined surface formed therein sloping downward from the rear of the holder toward the front to urge any brochures held therein towards the front of the holder. The assembled blank is held together by complementary projecting hollow fingers and cavities formed on the marginal portions of the back panels and on a flap pending from the bottom panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Lewis L. Albery
  • Patent number: 4541598
    Abstract: A hanger for supporting a plurality of generally flat items, such as a pad of coupons, each of which has a mounting pole. The hanger is integral and formed of a generally flat resilient blank made of an extruded organic polymeric resin. The hanger comprises a head portion for mounting on a support structure, a lower portion for carrying the items and a stem interconnecting the head portion and the lower portion. The lower portion includes a pair of oppositely extending arms having adjacent connected ends and remote distal ends. The arms are deflectable from the plane of the blank together to form a shaft for projecting through the mounting holes in the items. The distal end of each arm has one oppositely extending barb-like projection for retaining the items on the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventors: Jesus R. Villanueva, Richard G. Krautsack
  • Patent number: 4307900
    Abstract: A promotional coupon vehicle designed for display in association with a particular product line or for distribution by mail or other media to consumers. A first surface region illustrates the particular product and offers a discount on a purchase of the product line. A second surface region is delineated to receive and hold some portion of the packaging material of the product line. Adhesive carried by the second region facilitates attachment of the packaging material. The combination of the coupon vehicle and the attached packaging material is acceptable for a discount on the product line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Richard G. Krautsack
  • Patent number: 4016977
    Abstract: An assemblage of sheetlike items for presentation for taking on a one-by-one basis, plus means for supporting it either from a price channel or against a wall. A flat support plate of flexible material includes a head section having a pair of ears formed therein and a base section. The lower edges of the ears are spaced from the upper edge a distance greater than the vertical dimension of a price channel so the ears snap over-center thereinto. The rear surface of the base section carries pressure-sensitive adhesive and a release liner. A pivot links the sheetlike items at a central location on the plate in vertical alignment with the region between the ears. When the head section is uppermost, the ears can be snapped into a price channel to support the items in depending relation therebelow. Rotating the plate so the base section is uppermost permits it to be attached by the adhesive to a vertical surface to stably support the depending items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Richard G. Krautsack
  • Patent number: 3945559
    Abstract: A holder or the like for presenting an assemblage of items to be taken therefrom on a one-by-one basis including a foldable support sheet that can be attached to differently oriented surfaces. The sheet is composed of a lower main portion and an upper support portion including an attachment section and a connection section. Adhesive on the front surface of the attachment section and the rear surface of the connection section permits the connection section to be secured to the rear surface of the sheet and thus adapted for attachment to a forward-facing surface via the adhesive on said attachment section. The sheet can be folded differently and the holder attached to a pole or to a rearward-facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1976
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Richard G. Krautsack
  • Patent number: D275074
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Jesus R. Villanueva
  • Patent number: D278679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Jesus R. Villanueva
  • Patent number: D286113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Lewis L. Albery
  • Patent number: D306541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: The Cooperative Marketing Co.
    Inventor: Richard G. Krautsack