Education and demonstration – Architecture – interior decoration – or industrial plant layout – Curtain or wall – ceiling – or floor cover
Patent
1995-05-03
1997-02-11
Hirsch, Paul J.
Education and demonstration
Architecture, interior decoration, or industrial plant layout
Curtain or wall, ceiling, or floor cover
434 80, G09B 2500
Patent
active
056014317
ABSTRACT:
An interior design system comprising a display assembly having three flexible transparent overlays, a plain background sheet hinged to corresponding edges of the overlays, and a template sheet hinged to a free edge of the background sheet and having "scale" background and foreground grid sections for assisting in laying out interior room decorator's designs with a comprehensive catalog of design elements printed with scale designs of perspective furniture and accessory designs, and architectural elements for creating the room space to be decorated. The catalog pages have rows of printed scale designs covered with transparent plastic, with overlying, selectively removable and replaceable design elements with designs that are printed to the same scale on carrier sheets of flexible "static-cling" material, the carrier sheets being rectangular sections that are cut from a printed sheet the same size and shape as the backing sheet. In this manner, the catalog pages provide marked storage positions for the design elements after use. In addition, the backing sheets are marked with descriptive labels and special coded symbols in distinctive shapes and colors for assisting in selection and coordination of interior designs, and also are imprinted with generic labels for the designs. The method constitutes the steps of providing the catalog of scale images and the background and foreground grid sections, labeling and coding the images for identification, coordination and storage, selecting candidate images from the catalog and transferring them to the grid sections, and applying the images in the desired positions and combinations, thereby to create a decorator's design, and optionally applying colors as an overlay on the completed design for a more complete rendering.
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