Display book

Claim 1

A display book adapted to hold a plurality of page members and to be opened in the same way as a normal book having a spine and covers, said display book comprising: 1. a plurality of holding units generally in the shape of elongated rectangular parallelepipeds, each of which holding units a. has a first face adapted to form the spine of said display book in a manner to be recited, b. has a second face located opposite to said first face and adapted to hold at least one page member in a position extending therefrom, c. has two oppositely located lateral faces connecting said first and second faces, and d. has two longitudinal grooves therein, each of which is located at or near the interface of said first face with each of said opposed lateral faces, respectively, and each of which longitudInal grooves is broader internally of said holding unit than it is at the surface thereof; and 2. a plurality of elastically deformable joint strips each of which comprises an intermediate bar-like central portion and opposed head portions which are broader than the intermediate bar-like central portion, and each of which joint strips interconnects two adjacent holding units by having the opposed head portions thereof matingly engaged in the broader internal portions of the adjacent grooves on said adjacent holding units, each of said holding units being engaged by at least two of said joint strips, one in either groove thereof, in the above-recited manner, whereby said holding units may be held together with their lateral faces abutting and their first faces forming a spine or may be pivoted so that the first face of at least one of said holding units abuts against the first face of at least one other of said holding units, allowing a plurality of the adjoining pages held by said holding units to be successively swung in the same direction about 180* with respect to each other in the manner of a normal book.