US 12,293,678 B2
Pop-up with slide lock
Charles Robert Kelly, Amherst, OH (US)
Assigned to American Greetings Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed by American Greetings Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,573.
Prior Publication US 2024/0071258 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. G09F 1/06 (2006.01); A63H 33/16 (2006.01); A63H 33/38 (2006.01); G09F 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G09F 1/06 (2013.01) [A63H 33/16 (2013.01); A63H 33/38 (2013.01); G09F 15/0068 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pop-up structure comprising;
a main structure having four subpanels arranged in a square or rectangular arrangement;
a roof structure comprising a panel with a bifurcating fold-line that creates a first subpanel and a second subpanel, the first subpanel having two parallel elongate slots thereon;
a faux roof panel attached to the main structure and to a portion of the first subpanel of the roof structure between the two elongate slots thereon;
wherein the faux roof panel can slide along the portion of the first subpanel of the roof structure between the two elongate slots on the first subpanel of the roof structure;
wherein movement of the faux roof panel overtop the first subpanel of the roof structure along the two parallel elongate slots, causes the pop-up structure to move between a first position, wherein the pop-up structure is in a folded, flat configuration, and a second position, wherein the pop-up structure is in an unfolded, upright configuration.