Larry N Stern

US Patent:

43109780, Jan 19, 1982

Filed:

Dec 18, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/104871

Inventors:

Larry Stern - Wilmette IL

Assignee:

American Printers & Lithographers, Inc. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G09F 704

US Classification:

40600

Abstract:

An article for displaying advertising or promotional materials. In the preferred form, the article comprises a mounting portion including a body of an elastomeric material having embedded therein a plurality of magnetic particles, thereby rendering the mounting portion capable of being adhered to a magnetically permeable substrate. The body has a rear surface portion adapted to be received over the substrate, an oppositely directed front surface portion, and an intermediate opaque sheet of a thermoplastic material bonded by a pressure-sensitive adhesive to said front surface portion of the body. A cover sheet closely overlies the intermediate sheet, and the intermediate sheet and the outer sheet have their respective peripheral edges bonded to each other by a fused, adhesiveless bond about at least a substantial portion of the periphery of the article. In one form, an envelope is provided, and in another form, the cover sheet is transparent and a display image is lithographed on the inner surface of the cover sheet. A method of forming the article is described; the method includes simultaneously die-cutting articles and fusing certain portions of their edges together to form the final product.