US2147716A - Display device - Google Patents

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Feb. 21, 1939. P. M. REsslNGE-.R

DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Feb. 8, 1957 Patented Feb. 21, 1.939

UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE DISPLAY DEVICE Paul M. Ressinger, Chicago, Ill.

Application February 8, 1937, Serial No.

3 Claims.

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Another purpose is the provision of improved means for displaying and selling pens, pencils and the like.

Other purposes will appear from time to time in the course of the specification and claims.

I illustrate my invention more or less diagrammatically in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation;

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3--3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a section 2; and

Figure 5 is a tray.

Like parts are indicated by like symbols throughout the specification and drawing.

Referring to the drawing, I illustrate a pair of on the line 4-*4 of Figure detail of a display and storage upper channels 5. 6 indicates upper depressions or cut-away portions. The members 3, 3 are which are adapted to receive a pane of glass or the like l2, the other edges of which rest in the cut-away portion E of the side frame members 3. Mounted in the channels 5 I illustrate any suitable transverse member M which may serve as a reinforcing member but which has for a primary purpose to carry advertising or descriptive material or the trade-mark or trade name of the positioning notches I8, the purpose of which will later appear. i 9 generallyindicates an upper disreferring to the Figures 3 and 5.

tray. The purpose of these pins is to support the tray between the frame members 2 separately removed without disturbing each other. It will be understood that I may dispense with the upper notch I8 and the stop members 26 to serve the same function in limiting the downward movement of the tray as is performed for the lower tray 25 by the transverse member 1. I find it preferable however in connection with spacing the two trays to employ the above described notch structure.

It will be realized that whereas I have herewith shown and described a practical operative device, nevertheless many changes might be made in the size, shape, number and. disposition of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention and I wish, therefore, that my showing be taken as in a sense diagrammatic. For example, I might use but a single tray, or I might use more than two, and many changes in the specific securing means may be employed without departing from my invention.

I claim:

l. In a display device, a frame member including channeled side frame elements, and a plurality of removable display members, each including outward lateral projections adapted to slide along the channels of said side frame elements and to support said display members therein, the walls of said channels being cut away to permit the passage of said projections therethrough and the consequent removal of the display members, both said display members lying when in display position in substantially the same plane.

2. In a display device, a frame member including channeled side frame elements, and a plurality of removable display members, each including outward lateral projections adapted to slide along the channels of said side frame elements and to support said display members therein, the lower walls of said channels being cut away to permit the downward passage of said projections therethrough and the consequent downward removal of the display members, there being a plurality of lateral projections at each side of each display member, and a separate cut away portion in the lower wall of each said channel for each said display member, means for holding each said display member in a predetermined position, and a transverse member adapted to mask the interval between the said display members.

3. In a display device a support including frame members provided with lug receiving channels, a display member, and means for movably mounting said display member within said frame members with the display face thereof eX- posed to View from in front of said display device, said mounting means including spaced lug members extending outwardly from opposite sides of the display member and slidably supported within said channels, said lugs normally engaging a wall of said channel to support the display member in display position, said frame members being provided with openings leading into said channels for the ingress or egress of said lug members, said lug members in the normal display position of the display member being out of registry with said openings, said channels being dimensioned to permit relative sliding movement of the display member therein to bring the upper lugs in registry with said openings whereby said display member may be tilted rearwardly and downwardly about the lower lugs to dispose the display face and contents of the display member in position for ready access to one standing behind the display device.

PAUL M. RESSINGER.

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