Patent ID: 6648171
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: A41D,A47F,B65D,G09F

Abstract:
A stacked assembly of disposable rain protection devices having a reinforced holder for displaying and dispensing the disposable rain protection devices from a bracket member of a display stand, comprising:a plurality of disposable rain protection devices, each said rain protection device having a suspension portion extending from an edge of said rain protection device, said suspension portion detachably connected to said edge by a frangible perforation, said plurality of said disposable rain protection devices stacked together such that said suspension portions are adjacent one another, a display holder formed from a piece of cardboard, said piece of cardboard folded upward along an upward fold and downward along a pair of downward folds to thereby form a pair of opposing display holder flaps and an integral reinforcement member comprising a pair of opposing reinforcement member flaps, said opposing reinforcement member flaps sandwiched between said opposing display holder flaps and depending downward from an upper portion of said opposing display holder flaps, said opposing reinforcement members flaps fixedly attached to one another, said suspension portions of said stack of disposable rain protection devices sandwiched between a lower portion of said opposing display holder flaps of said display holder, said display holder flaps attached to one another by a fastening means passing through said plurality of suspension portions such that a selected disposable rain protection device may be selectively detached from said suspension portion by pulling said disposable rain protection device relative to said holder to thereby break said frangible perforation, and said display holder and said reinforcement member having at least one aperture passing through both said reinforcement member and said opposing flaps of said display holder, said at least one aperture sized to receive said bracket member of the display stand to thereby permit said disposable rain protection devices to be suspended from the display stand via said display holder.