Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Baggage checks
Patent
1982-04-22
1984-04-03
Peshock, Robert
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Baggage checks
40124, 40607, 40611, G09F 318
Patent
active
044399405
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a display bracket and attachment for the display of cards, leaflets and similar flat articles.
Although various arrangements are known for the display of cards, leaflets or the like there is a need for a simple device which can either be used for the display of individual articles or can be combined with similar devices to produce a display stand for a plurality of flat articles.
The present invention fulfils this need by providing a display bracket and attachment so designed that the bracket can be used on its own when placed on a flat surface, for example a table, to support a flat article, or can be mounted together with similar brackets by suitable attachments to a common column to form a display stand displaying articles in all directions.
According to one aspect of this invention there is provided a display bracket of substantially triangular shape comprising a base side for resting on a horizontal surface, an upright inclined side for supporting a flat display article, a clamp carried by the bracket adapted to clamp the flat display article to the inclined side, the remaining side being adapted to engage an attachment mountable on a column.
It will be appreciated that it is not necessary for the whole of the base side to contact the horizontal surface, just sufficient area for stability will suffice. In one version of the bracket the remaining side of the bracket is foreshortened such that the corner which the remaining side would otherwise make with the base side is cut off along a line substantially parallel to the inclined side to constitute a flat surface containing engagement means for the attachment. In another version, the base side is the shortest of the three sides and the remaining side is perpendicular to the base side.
The clamp may be a forwardly facing one piece moulding with a base part which engages the base side of the bracket and projects therefrom and an inclined part which in use, lies parallel to the inclined side. The inclined side of the bracket may be of shallow channel section which faces forwardly in the same direction as the clamp and the inclined part of the clamp has a rearwardly projecting lip which extends into the space defined by the channel section in order to impose a curve upon the cross-section of the flat display article rendering it sufficiently rigid to remain erect. The base part of the clamp may have a pair of rearwardly extending springy arms which terminate in detents and the base side has a forwardly facing slot which opens to the lower end of the inclined side with lateral apertures for receiving and arresting the detents when the arms are pushed into the slot. The remaining side may contain a window which receives the upstand of a L-section bracket carried by a collar attachment, the arrangement being that the clearance between the upstand and the collar just exceeds the thickness of the remaining side so that the remaining side abuts the collar and slides to a position where the top of the window abuts the well of the L-section bracket.
According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a display bracket assembly comprising
(a) a display bracket of substantially triangular shape with a base side for resting on a horizontal surface, an upright inclined side for supporting a flat display article, a clamp carried by the bracket adapted to clamp a flat display article to the inclined side, the remaining side being adapted to engage an attachment mountable on a column and
(b) a column-mountable attachment.
Two embodiments in the invention are now described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one form of the display with a clamp shown separately;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the column-mounted attachment;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another form of the bracket with the clamp affixed in its working position.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a one piece version.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2 the triangular bracket 2 is moulded from acetal and has a base side 4, an incl
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Hakomaki James
Peshock Robert
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