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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1982
Stanley Morris, Springfield, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A display apparatus for displaying a plurality of advertisements comprising a base, which holds condiments and comprising a plurality of condiment holding sections separated from each other by the display apparatus, support members on the base for displaying a plurality of business cards with each of the business cards facing in a different respective direction. The cards are removably mounted and the display apparatus is mounted for movement relative to the base to change the direction in which a given business card faces. A transparent cover, removably mounted to the display apparatus, protects the business cards on the display apparatus and comprises a single integral member comprising a hollow, vertically disposed tube having four walls and having a rectangular horizontal cross-section. A plurality of vertically disposed support members or sections each facing in a different respective direction are protectively covered by the transparent tube. At least one business card is mounted to each support member. The support members are disposed on the inside of the tube, one support member facing each of the four walls of the tube. A resilient, strip-like member is located within the tube and is resiliently deformable between an expanded, open first condition and a second condition in which the strip-like member is at least partially closed for urging the advertisement on each support member toward its respective wall on the transparent tube. The apparatus is preferably displayed on restaurant tables so that customers can view the advertisements contained therein during their meal. The tube embodiment is of a size which preferably accommodates twelve business cards; three cards on each support member.