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Structural Graphics, LLC

Stuctural Graphics Inc.

Ib Penick

Christopher S Crowell

In a pop-up device for use in a magazine or other publication or for use by itself such as a mailer or the like, two display elements are hingedly connected to a front of two covers. The opening of the front cover forces the erection of the two display elements and allows the elements to stand up out of the plane thereof. A spacing tab is connected between a foreground display element and the back cover and also is connected between a background display element and the back cover. The spacing tab restrains the displays from following the front panel a full one hundred eighty degrees while allowing them each to raise to a specified distance from the back cover. The pop-up is designed for mass-production mechanical fabrication and assembly. A blank is cut to form the display elements and the spacing tabs and is scored to form lines of weakness, which allow easy folding, in the appropriate places. Adhesive is then applied and, after appropriate plowing, folding and trimming processes, the pop-up device is formed.

Paper pop-up devices and method of making the same

Attractive eye-catching desk-top decorations formed as flattenable pop-up cardboard structures resembling solid polyhedrons have similar polygons as top and bottom supporting panels. Foldably joined to the sides of each of these polygons are trapezoidal face panels extending diagonally outward with their longer parallel edges foldably joined to corresponding edges of mating trapezoidal face panels extending outward from the other polygon, forming an equatorial plane polygon similar to but larger than the top and bottom polygon panels. Internal glue tabs extending inward in the equatorial plane are urged toward each other by elastic bands, popping the flattened structures into their erect condition. Internal guide flanges formed by or cooperating with the glue tabs arrest and block the inward flexing movement of the trapezoidal face panels as the desired erect polyhedron shape is reached, stabilizing and rigidifying the structures to provide a prolonged useful life.

Stabilizer and rigidified pop-up structures resembling solid polyhedrons

A folding paperboard gift box having a generally square or rectangular cross section enclosure formed by four wall panels and closed at both ends by suitable end closures, which may constitute interconnecting end panels. Hingedly attached to one of these panels is a decorative design element. Upon the setting up or squaring or the closing of the box, this design element becomes spaced-apart from the surface of the panel from which it is attached and thus stands out prominently as a part of the completed box.

Decorative paperboard boxes

In a pocket sized camera wherein the top and bottom walls of the housing are closely spaced relative to the front to back dimensions thereof and to the spacing between the housing end walls there is provided a multilamp flash unit-receiving socket mounted in the housing adjacent to one of the housing end walls for rotation about a horizontal axis extending in the direction of the longitudinal dimension of the camera housing and adapted to receive a multilamp flash unit so the central axis thereof corresponds with the axis of rotation of the socket. The end wall on which the flash unit-receiving socket is mounted is the end wall spaced the greatest distance from the lens opening in the front wall of the camera housing, to eliminate or minimize 'pink eye' effects. The socket is rotated in a direction so that the flash lamp section of the multilamp flash unit next to be rotated into a forward position is at the top of the flash unit, so the user can conveniently see the used or unused condition of the next flash lamp section involved to be used subsequent to the front section thereof. A flash on-off control is provided on the camera housing for rendering the flash unit selectively operable or inoperable and the flash unit-receiving socket is automatically rotated one lamp section only during the first film wind operations following a flash operation independently of the position of the flash on-off switch. The present invention has its most important utility in pocket-sized cameras, although some of the features thereof have a more general application in still cameras.

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Palatine, IL, United States of America

Ib Penick