Abstract: A versatile collapsible ornamental solid having a fully enclosed hollow interior is disclosed. The collapsible ornamental solid is cut from a single sheet of paper or similar material, folded and bonded, and encircled by an elastic band. Additionally, other collapsible ornamental solids having hollow interiors, generally in the shape of spires, are disclosed. These can be bonded to the basic collapsible ornamental solid and the combination collapsed so as to be substantially flat. The collapsible ornamental solids remain in the collapsed state as long as restraining pressure is applied substantially perpendicular to the faces of the collapsed ornamental solids, but automatically deploy by reason of the encircling elastic band when such restraining pressure is removed.

Abstract: A frame for a self-service sales display device is provided with pockets on each side of the frame. Guide members are provided on the entry side or wall of the frame and on the side or wall of the frame opposite the entry side for guiding the flat members into and out of the pockets in the frame. A cutout is provided through the entry wall into each pocket for ease in gripping the edge of a poster or flat member for removal from the frame. The frames have shaped pivots which extend into openings formed in surfaces of the display device such that the frame can be pivoted into a picture book position on the device.

Abstract: A posting device comprising transparent elements fastened parallel to one another to a mounting panel is disclosed. The elements and the panel are preferably made of plastic sheet, to make them flexible, resistant to bad weather and washable. Each element is U-shaped with equal or unequal legs or walls, elastically tilted toward one another, meant to receive strips containing the information to be posted. Adjacent elements are mounted close to each other so that a strip inserted into one of the elements becomes a "captive" thereof. A method to operate the device is also disclosed. It involves lifting the upper wall of an element, inserting the strip containing the information to be posted into the space between the two walls of the element and releasing the lifted wall. Removing the strip is done in an essentially similar fashion. The device can be used to advantage wherever there is a need to post constantly new information.

Abstract: A photograph album includes front and rear covers and a plurality of album pages releasably bound together. The front cover is constructed to present a picture frame comprising an outer frame assembly having a mat sheet provided with a plurality of various sized openings therein. The frame assembly frames a plurality of photographs and each opening in the mat individually frames each photograph.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment a microfilm jacket having plural parallel channels, each channel having at its insert opening a protruding upper-lip forming an insert opening formed by a slit extending rearwardly on both of opposite sides of the protruding lips and serving to guide microfilm fed beneath the protruding upper lip into the insert opening, with the rearwardly-extending slits extending different distances for different parallel channels relative to either one or both rearwardly extending sides of the slit.

Abstract: A holder for X-ray films comprising a sheet of very thin material having a series of rectangular openings therein, each opening being surrounded by a depressed continuous flange below the plane of the sheet, and a discontinuous flange generally in the plane of the sheet of material, said discontinuous flange comprising four separate non-flexible lips or tabs extending for the major portion of the lengths of the respective sides into the rectangles in which they are located.