Transparent Holder Patents (Class 40/771)
  • Patent number: 6022111
    Abstract: A transparency assembly including two generally transparent sheets, a transparent imageable sheet and a transparent protective sheet. The imageable sheet has a first major surface, a second major surface, and a plurality of side edges. The protective sheet is hingedly coupled to the imageable sheet by a full rotation hinge. The protective sheet has a first folded position where the protective sheet overlays at least a portion of the first major surface of the imageable sheet and a second folded position where the protective sheet overlays at least a portion of the second major surface of the imageable sheet. One or more flaps hingedly couple to one of the transparent sheets. The flap has a folded position and an unfolded position. In the folded position, the flap overlays at least a portion of the imageable sheet. In the unfolded position, the flap extends generally coplanarly alongside the imageable sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Joseph C. Carls
  • Patent number: 5979097
    Abstract: A display device, kit, system and method is provided which utilizes an item holder in combination with an angled frame to provide a protective, aesthetically pleasing, versatile display of one or more items such as trading cards, sports cards, racing cards, photographs, greeting cards, prints, and the like. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, the display device includes a substantially rectangular, transparent, trading card holder attached to the back surface of an angled frame, a primary mat adapted to be placed adjacent one surface of the frame and to serve as a mat in association with the front of the trading card being viewed through the frame, and a secondary mat adapted to be placed adjacent one surface of the item holder and to serve as a mat in association with the back side of the trading card being viewed through the item holder. In accordance with another example, the display device further includes a sound emitting device attached to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventor: Danny E. Moore
  • Patent number: 5970638
    Abstract: An object, such as a dried and pressed flower, is to be mounted between a transparent electrostatic vinyl sheet and a cover film with the object being tightly sealed therebetween. The electrical properties of the electrostatic vinyl film are to permit the resulting sealed ornament to be applied onto a clean, flat, non-porous surface with the static electricity of the electrostatic vinyl film fixing the sealed ornament in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventor: Lorinda B. Henley
  • Patent number: 5960573
    Abstract: A wall hanging picture frame includes a transparent board, a picture holding pocket body, and a quadrilateral holding frame. The holding frame is smaller than the transparent board and positioned on a front surface of the transparent board and has at least two connectors extended backwardly from two opposing sides thereof. The picture holding pocket body is positioned behind the transparent board and is concentrically aligned with the holding frame. The transparent board has at least two through holes provided thereon and aligned with respect to the two connectors of the holding frame to enable the holding frame being mounted on the transparent board by penetrating through the two through holes thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Inventor: Man-Chiang Wong
  • Patent number: 5944352
    Abstract: A notebook binder device having a first and second member. The first member having a front cover section. The front cover section having a central opening defining a window. The first member includes a connecting fold. The second member having a transparent, see through, cover and a back. When the first and second members are connected the back is viewed through the window and the transparent middle cover section. The second member includes a connecting fold suitable for connecting the connecting fold of the first member and for connecting the transparent cover section. Rivets and other connecting devices are adapted to connect the first and second members. Additionally, the rivets include male and female paper holding members for holding papers between the front and back covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Inventors: Jimmy Crouch, Glenn N. Christoffel, Peter F. Lynch, Scott W. Osiecki
  • Patent number: 5904373
    Abstract: The jacket has flexible front and rear walls which are connected together along the bottom and one side of the jacket, but which are separable from each other along the top and other side of the jacket to enable a document to be inserted between, or to be removed from between the front and rear walls. The rear wall has secured to the back thereof two, flexible magnetic strips for removably securing the upper and lower ends of the back wall against the face of a ferrous metal panel. The front wall, which is transparent extends slightly beyond the back wall adjacent the top and other side of the jacket and has secured to the back thereof along its upper edge another flexible magnetic strip which releasably engages the face of the supporting panel to hold the jacket closed when mounted on the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Wallace A. Krapf
  • Patent number: 5840355
    Abstract: A confectionery product that also functions to transmit a greeting or a message to a person receiving the product. The product comprises a rectangular bar of chocolate candy having a top surface provided with a cavity. A wrapper enclosing the candy bar and extending into the cavity is in turn encircled by a tubular heat shrink member. The heat shrink member is in firm engagement with the wrapper that provides access to the cavity so that the greeting card can be personalized and then inserted in one end of the heat shrink member and pushed to a position in the cavity. The resulting product can then be displayed in a flower arrangement or used by itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: The King Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas B. Prescott, Marc S. Margolis
  • Patent number: 5713147
    Abstract: A transparent globular photograph holder is provided herein. The holder consists of a pair of transparent semiglobular members--each such complementary transparent member consisting of a hollow semiglobe having a flat, planar, circular face, said flat, planar, circular face constituting an inner frame disc. Each such inner frame disc consists of an integrally-formed inner circular ring for co-operating together to provide back-up rings for holding two photographs, back-to-back, for two-way viewing. The hollow semiglobes are being selectively secured together at a selected area of their respective flat, planar, circular faces by hinge means. They also are releaseably temporarily locked together at another area of their respective flat, planar, circular faces by means of a flexible clasp on one of said inner frame discs which co-operates with a retaining slot in said other inner frame disc: means are provided for hanging the transparent globular photograph holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Inventor: Maria Ward Johnson
  • Patent number: 5569503
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive coated mounting substrate with a clear plastic cover sheet that may be used for mounting and displaying relatively flat items. These mounting substrates are especially useful as pages in photograph albums. The novel advantage of the mounting substrate of the present invention is accomplished by coating the substrate with an adhesive which includes an aliphatic alkene glycol in its liquid phase and an aliphatic acrylate elastomer in its solid phase. A particularly suited use for the coated mounting substrate of the present invention is in the photographic album page art. The solid phase of the adhesive used in the production of the coated substrate of the present invention is comprised of an aliphitic alkene elastomer and an inorganic filler. The liquid phase is comprised of an aliphatic alkene glycol, water and an inorganic hydroxide pH adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: C. R. Gibson Company
    Inventor: Edmund C. Piotroski