Abstract: A device for storing and serially dispensing cards, typically those impregnated with a perfumed scent for sampling by a perspective customer. The device stores a number of cards arranged in a substantially vertical stack. The cards are moved to a dispensing point by a spring loaded carriage into a dispensing mechanism which serially removes a leading card from the stack, changes its position to horizontal and ejects it through an opening in the front of the device as a lever is manually depressed.

Abstract: A manually operated dispensing device for ejecting perfume sampling strips of varying length and thickness. Interchangeable septums are provided to form properly sized stacking channels. A resilient lip prevents more than one sample strip from being ejected during a single activation. A tapered exit opening accommodates the leading edge of strips of varying thickness and possible misalignment.

Abstract: A cosmetic sample dispenser having plural replaceable magazines supported on a common base. Each of the magazines is positioned within a recess in the base and maintained in operative position by a latch against an ejector spring. The individual magazines each include an elongated main housing enclosing a follower plate and follower spring for urging stacked rectangular planar samples upwardly to a point of dispensing. A tubular sleeve element surrounds the main housing for relative axial manually imparted movement to actuate an ejector means for projecting one end of an upwardmost sample in a stack outwardly through an exit opening where it may be manually grasped for removal by a user. Upon release of an end wall of the housing the ejector spring returns the main housing to its original position within its respective recess and relative to the sleeve element for reactivation.

Abstract: An improved display device suitable for supporting packaged expendable items, normally for use with a single article of manufacture, such as supplies for a typewriter and the like. The device may be used by supporting it on a horizontal surface, such as a counter, or separated into components for support upon a vertical surface such as a wall. The device includes a plurality of molded rectangular panels having openings for supporting peg board hooks. The panels are interconnected in opposed pairs to form a two-sided display supported in rotatable manner upon a base. An auxiliary upper panel which may carry advertising material is integrally molded therewith. The panels are maintained together by slideably engaged edge members at the sides thereof, and at the bottom thereof by semi-circular projections which are maintained in abutted relation by a retaining ring. A supporting pull penetrates the ring and projections to interconnect the panels with a horizontally oriented base.

Abstract: An edge lighted display in which light is transmitted through a translucent planar panel to be refracted by the presence of indicia, such as a crayon marking to provide a luminescent appearance. In the disclosed embodiment, the translucent panel which is made of synthetic resinous materials is provided with a thin coating on an outer surface thereof of a harden silicate material, whereby light rays pass in the plane of the junction between the outer surface of the panel and the inner surface of the coating prior to refraction for improved brilliance.

Abstract: An improved illuminated sign construction utilizing a single source of illumination to back-light a transparency and a surrounding synthetic resinous frame element, the exposed edges of which emit a glow resembling that of a fluorescent tube. The exposed edges may be optionally of rounded configuration to achieve additional brightness.

Abstract: An advertising display device characterized by a rotating cardboard cylinder in which rotation is propelled by air currents in the room impinging upon air vanes extending outwardly from the cylinder. The device includes a low-friction rotational supportive being created by opposing magnetic fields. The device consists of a segmented pole supported at a lower end thereof by a floor or other horizontal surface; disposed at the top of the upper section of the pole is a magnet with a protruding pin. In the center of the top wall of the cylinder is another magnet with a corresponding recess. The pin of the first magnet rests in the recess of the second, and the magnets face each other with like polarity, thus repelling each other. This creates a floating effect, allowing for low frictional rotation.