Patent ID: 7325345

Claim:
A portable, free-standing sign panel assembly of frame-less construction intended to be placed on the ground at a suitable display location to form a frame-less self restoring compressible display, there being a first panel having an upright display surface wherein the upright display surface is the outer face of an upholstered block which is sufficiently resilient to recover its shape if compressed, a second panel joined to the first panel along a flexible joint so that the panels may fold together to a transport position, the second panel being sufficiently resilient to recover its shape if compressed and there being means to maintain the first and second panels in their selected display position, the means to maintain the first and the second panels in their selected display position comprising at least one connector flap having a weight containing pocket, the flap being joined to one of the said first or second panels along a flexible joint and having a free edge on a side of said flap opposite the last-named joint so that the flap may fold to a transport position between the folded together first and second panels or the flap may fold from its transport position and be operatively connected between the panels to maintain the first and the second panels in their selected display position, the said at least one flap and the said first and second panels being joined at their respective flexible joints by seams so the joints can not be separated, the seams being sufficiently wide to enable the sign panel assembly to fold to the transport position with the said at least one flap folded between the two panels with the panels in a generally parallel configuration while accommodating the said at least one flap between them, the sign panel assembly having a carrying handle extending from the assembly to enable the assembly to be easily carried when folded to the transport position.