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Patent: 3,997,220
Issued: Dec. 14, 1976
Inventor: Raymond E. Mayer, Schwenksville, Pa.
A 4-by-8-foot panel stands in an upright position. Openings or cutouts in the panel contain a pop-in/pop-out molded-plastic display tray for storing and/or displaying articles. Panels have quick connect/disconnect fasteners. As used in a retail store, the unit simulates a wall and forms a visible, accessible display.

Patent: Des. 242,682
Issued: Dec. 14, 1976
Inventors: Bertram J. Cain, Brookfield, Ill.; Walter R. Whiteman, Winston-Salem, N.C.
The ornamental design for a combined display and dispensing stand for cigarette packages, as shown.

Patent: 3,993,372
Issued: Nov. 23, 1976
Inventor: Peter Mihos, Brockton, Mass.
A display and vending device for stackable articles such as cigarette packages is suspended from overhead supports at the check-out counter of a retail store. The articles contained in the device are accessible only to the cashier but are visible to the customer. The frame has vertical dividers that separate the packages and enable them to be gravity fed.

Patent: 3,992,872
Issued: Nov. 23, 1976
Inventor: Robert B. Stanish, Chicago
Assignee: Poster Products Inc., Chicago

Patent: 3,990,601
Issued: Nov. 9, 1976
Inventor: James E. Joyce, Rochester, Mich.

Patent: 3,986,613
Issued: Oct. 19, 1976
Inventor: Cyrus A. Mayer, Olympia Fields, Ill.

Patent: 3,983,652
Issued: Oct. 5, 1976
Inventors: Gerald A. Beaty, Norristown, Pa; Frederick L. Lynch, Andover, Mass.
Assignees: Elinore Beaty, Wilmington, Del.; American Cyanamid Co., Stamford, Conn.

Patent: 3,984,002
Issued: Oct. 5, 1976
Inventor: Fred Howard, New York
A drapery display is for the display of pleated drapery samples and the like. A hanger is specially adapted for supporting drapery samples by receiving the pleats. The hanger may be supported on a hanging rod with surface manifestations, which provide for orientation of articles being displayed by the hangers at an angle of substantially less than 90 degrees, with respect to the direction of elongation of the rod.

Patent: 3,984,004
Issued: Oct. 5, 1976
Inventor: Raymond H. Devanney, Winsted, Conn.
Assignee: Vanco Inc., Collinsville, Conn.

Patent: 3,982,345
Issued: Sept. 28, 1976
Inventor: Kelly R. Coleman, Clearwater, Fla.