Display assembly and interlocking fastener thereof
AssigneeGallery Blocks LLC
InventorsRyan J. Millman, Cheyne J. Smith
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Abstract
A fastener for an image display assembly comprising a polygonal planar body having a ventral surface with at least one fastening member extending from the ventral surface. The fastening member comprises a fastening member body and at least one cantilever tab extending from the fastening member body. Each cantilever tab comprises a fastener retainer facing the ventral surface. Also provided is an image display assembly comprising retaining features; an assembled image display comprising said image display assembly and said fastener; a kit comprising said image display assembly and said fastener; a method of creating an image display; and use of said image display assembly and said fastener to create an image display.
Claims11
An image display assembly comprising:
- a fastener comprising:
- a planar body, and
- a fastening member comprising a fastening member body and a plurality of cantilever tabs extending from the fastening member body, wherein the plurality of cantilever tabs comprises a retainer facing a ventral surface of the planar body, and wherein the cantilever tab is parallel to the ventral surface;
- and
- an image base comprising a plurality of distal foldable segments, each distal foldable segment comprising a retaining feature configured for engagement with the corresponding retainer of the fastener,
- wherein the planar body is a rectangular planar body;
- and
- wherein the fastening member comprises four cantilever tabs.
An image display assembly comprising:
- a fastener having a planar body and a fastening member extending from the planar body, the fastening member comprising a fastening member body and at least two cantilever tabs extending from the fastening member body;
- and
- a base having a front face comprising an adhesive layer for securing an image, and a non-image face, the non-image face comprising a plurality of at least two linear v-grooves;
- wherein the plurality of at least two linear v-grooves segment the base into proximal foldable segments extending between the at least two linear v-grooves and distal foldable segments extending from one of the at least two linear v-grooves;
- wherein the distal foldable segments comprise a retaining feature positioned in its portion of the non-image face of the distal foldable base segment that engages a retainer of the at least two cantilever tabs of the fastener, wherein the fastener is separable from the base;
- wherein folding of the segments inward along the v-grooves assembles the base into a support structure comprising a plurality of corners and an interior hollow, the distal foldable segments when folded located proximate to each other and defining an entrance to the hollow, thereby forming a partially assembled base comprising an image display face formed from a portion of the front face, and
- wherein the at least two cantilever tabs of the fastener engage with at least two distal foldable segments of the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.