Display device

Claim 1

A compact book-like storage and display device comprising a one-piece molded synthetic resinous casing and a stack of a plurality of pages bearing the material to be displayed loosely bound to one free edge of said casing, said device further characterized by: A. a front cover and a back cover each integral with and hingedly connected to opposite sides of a relatively narrower spine, said covers being generally flat and semi-rigid and said spine being generally arcuate in transverse cross-section and rigid; B. one of said covers being a compound cover composed of two generally flat and semi-rigid panels each having an angularly extending end wall portion; C. the first of said panels being integral with and hingedly connected on one side to the spine and integral with and hingedly connected on the other side to the other panel along the edges of said angularly extending end wall portions; D. a perpendicularly extending wall portion along the top and bottom edges of both of said panels and spaced inwardly from the edges of the panels opposite the angularly extending end wall portions, said wall portions defining a shallow storage compartment on the inner face of each of said panels; E. said stack of pages bearing the material to be displayed being loosely bound to the free edge of said other panel opposite from its hinged connection to the first panel and outside of said storage compartment thereon, said loose binding lying generally along a line parallel to the spine, being loose enough to permit the pages to be folded against either side of said other panel, and comprising a plurality of perforations along one side edge of said stack of pages and the adjacent side edge of said other panel to which the pages are bound; F. at least one generally annular fastening element extending through contiguous perforations of said pages and panel; G. positive latching means provided adjacent the edge of said other panel on the inner surface thereof adjacent to the perpendicular wall portion and adjacent to said loose binding, said latching means comprising a plurality of spaced apart perpendicular projecting tabs spaced from said perpendicular wall portion by about the thickness of said front cover, whereby the free edge of said front cover is engageable between said perpendicular wall portion and said tabs; H. said device when closed forming a generally flat book-like storage unit; and I. said device when folded into a generally triangular prism, having one of said covers as a base, said loose binding as one edge, the other of said covers as one side and the stack of pages as the other side, forming an easel display for the material on said pages.