Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – For use with horizontal merchandise support hook
Reexamination Certificate
1996-09-18
2001-04-17
Silbermann, Joanne (Department: 3628)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
For use with horizontal merchandise support hook
C040S611050
Reexamination Certificate
active
06216376
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a display apparatus with a display carrying body releasably attachable to a filler gun of a type including in sequence a gun barrel, a gun head with a housing, and a gun handle, the gun barrel joining the gun head at a first junction, and the gun handle joining the gun head at a second junction.
Although the present invention is in particular useful for use on a fuel pump filler gun, the invention is not limited thereto, but could be used on any fluid filler gun.
Various types of display apparatus with a display carrying body are known in the art, e.g. from U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 08/284427, 08/590407 and 08/610961. Other relevant art is known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,058,637, EP patent 0407271, and British patents 2147273 and 1393062.
Various means have been suggested in the prior art for attaching a display carrying body to a fuel pump filler gun, such means including straps, an attachment body engageable with the display carrying body in order to encompass the gun head of the filler gun, as well as using a filler gun boot on which can be located a small sized display holder through the means of adhesive, rivets or the like.
The present invention aims at providing a structurally simpler display apparatus whereby said display carrying body is adapted, when fitted onto the filler gun, to cover an upper part of the gun head, a display message card support being provided on an upper face of the display carrying body, and means provided for releasably attaching the carrying body to the filler gun, said attaching means comprising first engagement means located on the display carrying body and configured to engage with second engagement means forming an integral part of said gun head housing. This means that the body of the gun head housing has such second engagement means, suitably formed through an integral casting operation of the gun head housing.
According to the invention, the first engagement means are screws and the second engagement means are screw receiving holes in said housing. Said second engagement means are suitably formed as lugs protruding from side faces of said housing and so configured as to engage with said first engagement means. Said lugs are suitably provided with threaded holes and said first engagement means are screws.
In an alternative embodiment, said screws extend through said upper face of the carrying body to engage holes provided in said upper part. In another embodiment, it is possible to let said screws extend through side regions of said carrying body and into said holes provided in side faces of the gun head housing.
In another embodiment, said first engagement means are suitably snap hook means, and said second engagement means are holes in said gun head housing for receiving and snap engaging with said snap hook means. Said snap hook means may e.g. depend from a lower side rim of the display carrying body or depend from a bottom face of the display card support.
According to still a further alternative of the present display apparatus, said first engagement means is located along a distance of a lower periphery of the display carrying body and formed as a male snap means, and said second engagement means is located along a distance of a peripheral region of said gun head housing and formed as a female snap means.
According to further features of the present invention a display message card is locatable on said upper face, and a display message card holder is attachable to said display carrying body. Further, said display carrying body suitably extends from adjacent said first junction to adjacent said second junction.
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Alvern ASA
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Silbermann Joanne
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