Supports: racks – Special article – Paper or textile sheet type
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-31
2001-05-29
Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3634)
Supports: racks
Special article
Paper or textile sheet type
C211S045000, C040S723000, C040S729000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06237782
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a system for displaying consumer objects, such as carpet samples.
2. Background Art
Designers of product displays strive to develop systems that allow convenient access to the displayed objects and show the displayed objects in the best possible light. It is common in the carpet industry to display samples on pallet cards. In a typical arrangement, a large swatch of carpet is glued to one surface on the pallet card to allow the potential consumer to identify the carpet style and texture. Smaller swatches of the same carpet style may be glued to the same surface of the pallet card to identify different available colors.
Displays in carpet stores may support a number of the pallet cards. In one form, the pallet cards are pivotably connected at one edge so that the individual pallet cards can be repositioned and inspected in the same manner as pages in a book are turned and observed.
This type of display permits a large number of carpet samples to be set up for convenient viewing in a relatively compact space. The pallet cards can be manipulated with relative ease to allow selective viewing of the various samples available.
One problem with this type of display is that carpet samples have a tendency to become deformed. The swatches project outwardly from the pallet cards and may abut to the back surface of an adjacent pallet card on the display. If a number of the pallet cards are pushed to one side of the display, a substantial compressive force may be exerted on the carpet swatches. The compressed carpet swatches, once exposed by repositioning of the pallet cards, may have a crushed pile which detracts from the appearance of the carpet. This may deter potential consumers from purchasing a particular carpet style.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is directed to a display system having a first card having oppositely facing first and second surfaces, at least one display object on the first surface, and a spacer assembly with a first spacer element that is attached to the first card and projects from the first surface.
The spacer assembly may have a second spacer element that is attached to the first card at a location spaced from the first spacer element that projects from the first surface.
The spacer assembly may include a second spacer element that is attached to the first card and projects from the second surface.
The first and second spacer elements may be joined, each to the other, through the first card.
A fastener may interconnect the first and second spacer elements. The fastener may be a screw, a bolt, or the like.
One of the first and second spacer elements may have a projection, with there being a receptacle for the projection on the other of the first and second spacer elements.
The projection may be received and frictionally held within the receptacle.
The display object may be a carpet swatch.
The display system may further include a frame and a second card that is substantially the same as the first card, with the first and second cards mounted to the frame for movement relative to each other between a) a first relative position wherein the first card is substantially filly spaced from the second card and b) a second relative position wherein the second card overlies the first card and is abutted to the first spacer element.
The second card may be pivotable relative to the frame and the first card as the cards are moved relative to each other between the first and second relative positions.
The first card may be made from cardboard.
The first spacer element may be made from molded plastic.
The first and second spacer elements may have the same configuration.
In one form, the first spacer element projects from the first surface at least as far as the at least one display object.
The invention is also directed to a display system for an object, which display system has a first card having oppositely facing first and second surfaces and a spacer assembly having a first spacer element that is attached to the first card and projects from the first surface to shield an object to be displayed that is on the first surface.
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Harris Erica B.
Schutz International Inc.
Stodola Daniel P.
Wood Phillips VanSanten Clark & Mortimer
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