Indicia-bearing device

Claim 1

A SELF-SUPPORTING INDICIA-BEARING DEVICE WHICH IS READILY COLLAPSIBLE AND DEFORMABLE UPON BODILY IMPACT COMPRISING FIRST AND SECOND PARALLELEPIPED UNITARY SECTIONS OF RESILIENT FOAM MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF FOAM RUBBER AND POLYURETHANE FOAM HAVING APPROXIMATELY EQUAL DIMENSIONS, (A) EACH OF SAID SECTIONS HAVING A THICKNESS CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN THE LENGTH OF WIDTH THEREOF (B) EACH OF SAID PARALLELEPIPED SECTIONS BEING ENTIRELY SEALED, EXCEPT FOR VENT HOLES WHICH PERMIT THE ESCAPE OF AIR WHEN SAID FOAM IS COMPRESSED AND PERMIT THE RE-ENTRY THEREOF WHEN SAID FOAM RECOVERS FROM SAID COMPRESSION, WITHIN FIRST AND SECOND TOUGH PLASTIC COVERS TO PROVIDE FIRST AND SECOND INDICIA-BEARING ELEMENTS (C) SAID FIRST AND SECOND INDICIA-BEARING ELEMENTS BEING PERMANENTLY JOINED AT A COMMON BORDER SO AS TO PROVIDE AN AXIS OF ROTATION TO PERMIT ROTATION OF AT LEAST 350$ OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND ELEMENTS AROUND SAID AXIS OF ROTATION (D) MEANS INTEGRAL TO AND COACTIVE WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND INDICIA-BEARING ELEMENTS FOR RESTRICTING THE RELATIVE ROTATION BETWEEN SAID INDICIA-BEARING ELEMENTS TO AN ANGLE OF LESS THAN 90*, AND IN WHICH SAID INDICIA-BEARING ELEMENTS IN OPERATIVE POSITION FORM A GENERALLY V-SHAPED STRUCTURE WHICH WILL BE SELFSUPPORTING WHEN PLACED ON A RELATIVELY FLAT SURFACE IN A POSITION SUCH THAT THE APEX OF SAID STRUCTURE IS DISPOSED OPPOSITE OF SAID SURFACE.