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Class 40/5 - Changeable reading


Subclass of Class 40 - Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Definition: Devices designed for attachment to articles of merchandise,
No. of patents: 75
Last issue date: 12/09/2008


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NumberTitleIssue Date
4735006Changeable sign
The rear surfaces of sign component pieces carry printed alignment indicating direction indicia in the form of arrowheads that are of a dark color and have a glossy surface luster while the front surfaces of the pieces carry a printed background of the sa...
04/05/1988
4723368Display mounting arrangement
A display element mounting arrangement provides a pair of display holders for frictionally-engaging and supporting an elongated display element at its opposite ends. The display holders are adapted to be mounted on and frictionally secured to a support me...
02/09/1988
4694600Indicia display module using light pipe
The price display module has a clear plastic light pipe and support member mounted on the back of a bezel to display an indicia on the pre-coiled strip through the bezel aperture and illuminated by light piped through the member from the back light source...
09/22/1987
4688341Apparatus for providing two indicators in association with goods in a store display
An assembly for providing a visually discernible indicator and a bar code in association with goods to be sold, includes a tray having opposing side walls and a front panel containing the bar code in association with the goods; first and second clips secu...
08/25/1987
4682430Price chip support strip
A price chip support strip of simplified construction has positive engagement with guide and retention tracks of a strip support frame. Individual price chips are conveniently removed and inserted at the front of the price chip support strip. An effective...
07/28/1987
4680882Identification tag
An identification tag for articles and containers, which is characterized by a base tag member having an extended leg for attachment to an article or looping through the handle of a container, the base tag member further provided with spaced indicia areas...
07/21/1987
4679339Price cassette
A price cassette (1) is described which comprises a moulding (2) in which a plurality of parallel wells (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) at least partially open towards the cassette front side and separated from each other by webs (9, 10, 11, 12, 13) are disposed...
07/14/1987
4677777Price setting and display system for multiple unit merchandising machine
An improved price display system for a multi-level merchandising machine in which the prices of articles at the respective levels are electronically displayed individually at locations immediately adjacent to the levels. Both the prices and the displays c...
07/07/1987
4669208Holder for adjustable indicating devices
A holder for manually adjustable self-coiling tapes is mounted on shelf moldings in retail outlets by means of a pair of gripping edges projecting from the base of the holder the space between which may be varied by means of an adapter and which are engag...
06/02/1987
4660309Changeable character display device
A plurality of flexible strips are included in a changeable character display device. Each strip has a series of display portions that are longitudinally arranged on a strip. A guide panel of the device includes respective pairs of apertures arranged late...
04/28/1987
4658960Color coding cassette
In the fabrication process of the integrated circuit manufacturing there used to be an inconvenience in handling the many of the cassette of the wafers. By using the color coded cassette of the present invention the personnel can distinguish and identify ...
04/21/1987
4641447Concealed inventory control device
A concealed inventory control device for readily identifying and accounting for objects arranged in sequential front to back and side to side alignment comprising a mechanism for readily identifying the objects arranged from front to back and side to side...
02/10/1987
4640029Mobius strip and display utilizing the same
A display device comprising a display panel having a window therein, a flat continuous tape in the form of a mobius strip having indicia on both sides thereof, and a support member removably secured to the display panel such that a portion of the tape is ...
02/03/1987
4593486Menu and prices display device
Pricing modules of the type having precoiled numeric indicia tapes are slidably held in guide channels of a mounting trackway assembly. Additional guide channels in the trackway assembly receive customized alpha indicia strips forwardly of the pricing mod...
06/10/1986
4581271Holder and indicia means for use therewith
A holder having a chamber that is recessed and has compartments in which indicia elements having engaging projections are received. The compartments have access openings in opposed walls of the chamber that are bendable to increase the size of the compart...
04/08/1986
4577428Display device with movable tape assemblies
A device for displaying the names of items and their prices uses a generally planar panel that has pairs of parallel tracks on its rear side and parallel guide channels on its front side. There is an elongated aperture in the panel between each pair of tr...
03/25/1986
4565023Indicia display means
Indicia display means comprising an indicia-bearing member having one or more sets of visible indicia located thereon in predetermined locations, and a mask member arranged to overlay the indicia-bearing member, the mask member having perforations or open...
01/21/1986
4557063Pressed number pocket
A sign holder for a packet of planar members bearing characters for display. Deformable material having a sheet portion has a pocket for receipt of the packet. The pocket has a front retaining wall formed from the sheet portion to prevent the packet from ...
12/10/1985
4472896Paperboard food carton
A carton serving as a container for a food product, such as a hamburger. The carton in one embodiment is of the so-called clamshell type and includes an upper lid and a lower tray, both the lid and the tray being of generally truncated pyramidal shape. Th...
09/25/1984
4453324Pricing sign with changeable numbers
This invention relates to a display device having a self storing changeable message appearing on a display element that may be folded for insertion into a mounting member having two opposing flanges defining a channel and when the display element is engag...
06/12/1984
4375730Reflective information display device
A display device such as is used to display automobile service station price data in which a support surface (26) provides a display area (22,23,24,25) and an adjustable information strip (39) is slideable across the support face to present different info...
03/08/1983
4337588Digital spring roll display device
The invention includes a display device having a support structure including an opening forming a display window and a spring roll visible through the window, the spring roll including display characters along its length and comprising material having the...
07/06/1982
4334372Movable web variable exhibitor
A device for displaying price and like information wherein the figures to be displayed are contained on a series of panels folded into two stacks so that the top panel in each stack combines to make a display area and display one complete figure. The outs...
06/15/1982
4296563Display device with price change cartridges
A display device such as is used to display information relating to the description and price of goods for sale comprises a translucent facia panel (12) providing the front face of a display cabinet behind which is mounted one or more cartridges (16,17) e...
10/27/1981
4281469Removable identification panel for earring cards
A device such as an earring card having a main panel adapted to display jewelry articles while oriented in a generally vertical position by suspension from a rod or the like. Preferably, the upper portion of the main panel adjacent to a centrally disposed...
08/04/1981
4270292Sign with changeable inserts
A sign for carrying changeable inserts having a metal base plate of resilient material on which are formed a plurality of clips providing gripping engagement of an insert of sheet material to carry said insert removable upon a surface of the base plate. T...
06/02/1981
4143477Variable index tab for a file folder
An index tab for a file folder includes an integral base member adapted to be affixed to the file folder. The base member includes a relatively flat base portion engageable with a surface of the file folder, the base portion having a pair of opposed strip...
03/13/1979
4139149Display system
A retail store having a computer, point-of-sale terminals, and product code readers at the point-of-sale terminals, includes an electronic price display system. The display system has plural display units, with one display unit at each of the locations in...
02/13/1979
4132022Reflected sign
A reminder device adapted to be carried on a vehicle's dashboard in front of the vehicle's steering mechanism in such a position as to reflect upwardly onto the inside of the windshield at a position where same can be viewed and read by the driver. The re...
01/02/1979
4055692Gas pump counter display and method of formation thereof
A display unit for gas pump counters and the method of formation thereof are presented. The display unit converts a conventional three digit gas pump display unit to a four digit display unit by forming a fourth digit display window in existing gas pump u...
10/25/1977
4002886Electronic price display unit
This invention pertains to an electronic price display unit which can be remotely addressed and in which the price displayed can be remotely set. Such a device is particularly useful in a retail sales business in a system employing a central computer, poi...
01/11/1977
3982342Interchangeable price indicating sign
A price indicia holder for use in sign frames in stores for facilitating easy change of price information, and the resulting interchangeable sign. The indicia holder fits in the top of the sign frame suspended by means of an outwardly extending flange. Th...
09/28/1976
3973514Stock control indicating means
This invention has to do with a stock indicator which includes a strip that will take writing and erasure and which includes printed legends such as "Part No.", "Quantity" and "Date", each associated with blanks to be filled in by pen, pencil or crayon. S...
08/10/1976
3966232Parking cards
Parking cards for displaying prepaid parking time periods. The card is in the form of a strip of tearable material having month, day and hour indicia printed on separate areas thereof, each of the indicia areas being formed with tear lines enabling the us...
06/29/1976
3961956Method for production of and distinction between combined validification and identification photographs
A method production of a composite photograph containing at least two images, i.e. a mark image and a holder image, and a method for distinguishing images in said composite photograph, said photograph being composed of alternate strips containing elements...
06/08/1976
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