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Abstract

A pop-up coupon dispenser for small sheets which have a repositionable adhesive is provided with a flexible plastic cable tie. The dispenser includes a box filled with such sheets having an adhesive stripe along one margin and stacked in accordion fashion, the sheets being printed as manufacturer's coupons supplied to a retailer who attaches the box by the cable tie to a wire rack, to a cardboard display or other suitable support, such as a shelf, and cuts off the excess end of the cable tie. Customers can remove the coupons one-at-a-time and affix them by their adhesive backing to the product for which the coupon is redeemable. A check-out cashier can, therefore, immediately determine that the purchaser is purchasing the product for which the coupon was issued. The dispenser box may also be provided with a conventional shelf clip connected to the bottom of the dispenser box. Each coupon could comprise an unperforated sheet but could have a tear line adjacent the margin of the adhesive so that, in use, the customer can adhere the adhesively-coated portion of the coupon to the product to which the coupon applies. At the check-out counter, the cashier tears away the remainder of the label along the tear line. The torn-away portion, which is used by the retailer to redeem the coupon, will be easy for the check-out cashier and others to accumulate and handle. Also, the face of the sheet opposite the adhesively-coated portion may have advertising matter which the customer would take, because adhered to the purchased product, when leaving the retail store. In addition, a blinking LED could be housed within the dispenser box in alignment with an opening in the wall of the box to bring added attention to the dispenser box.

First Claim