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US 11,882,949 B2Granted
Frame apparatus
AssigneeMCS Industries, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Scott Kressin, Changhong Huang, Brad William Huff, Weisha Yu
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Abstract
A frame apparatus for displaying a flat article and a combined frame apparatus and flat article. In one aspect, the frame apparatus includes a display frame defining a rabbet, a stack positioned in the rabbet, and a spacer apparatus. The rabbet is defined by a floor and a wall. The wall includes an engagement feature which may be a channel. The spacer apparatus is positioned in the rabbet and engagement features thereof extend into the channel in the wall od the rabbet to couple the spacer apparatus to the display frame. The spacer assembly may also be in contact with the stack to hold the stack in the rabbet.
Claims18
A frame apparatus comprising:
- an annular display frame comprising:
- a longitudinal axis;
- an outer wall having an outer surface that defines a periphery of the annular display frame and an inner surface;
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- a rabbet comprising a floor and a wall, the wall of the rabbet spaced apart from the inner surface of the outer wall to define a channel between the wall of the rabbet and the outer wall, the wall of the rabbet comprising an opening that provides a passageway into the channel;
- a stack positioned in the rabbet;
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- a spacer apparatus positioned in the rabbet and detachably coupled to the annular display frame to retain the stack in the rabbet, the spacer apparatus comprising a first engagement feature that nests within at least one of the opening or the channel on a first side of the longitudinal axis and a second engagement feature that nests within at least one of the opening or the channel on a second side of the longitudinal axis;
- wherein the spacer apparatus comprises a first side portion, a second side portion opposite the first side portion, a third side portion extending between the first and second side portions, and a fourth side portion extending between the first and second side portions, the fourth side portion being opposite the third side portion, and wherein the first engagement feature is located along the first side portion of the spacer apparatus and the second engagement feature is located along the second side portion of the spacer apparatus;
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- further comprising a third engagement feature located along the third side portion of the spacer apparatus and a fourth engagement feature located along the fourth side portion of the spacer apparatus, the first and third engagement features being identical, and the second and fourth engagement features being identical, at least a portion of the first and third engagement features being structurally different than the second and fourth engagement features.
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A frame apparatus comprising:
- an annular display frame comprising:
- a longitudinal axis;
- an outer wall having an outer surface that defines a periphery of the annular display frame and an inner surface;
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- a rabbet comprising a floor and a wall, the wall of the rabbet spaced apart from the inner surface of the outer wall to define a channel between the wall of the rabbet and the outer wall, the wall of the rabbet comprising an opening that provides a passageway into the channel;
- a stack positioned in the rabbet;
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- a spacer apparatus positioned in the rabbet and detachably coupled to the annular display frame to retain the stack in the rabbet, the spacer apparatus comprising a first engagement feature that nests within at least one of the opening or the channel on a first side of the longitudinal axis and a second engagement feature that nests within at least one of the opening or the channel on a second side of the longitudinal axis;
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- wherein the first engagement feature comprises an elongated protuberance that protrudes from an outer surface of the spacer apparatus along one side of the spacer apparatus, and wherein the second engagement feature comprises at least one flexible tab protruding obliquely from the outer surface of the spacer apparatus along another side of the spacer apparatus.
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A frame apparatus comprising:
- an annular display frame comprising:
- a longitudinal axis;
- an outer wall having an outer surface that defines a periphery of the annular display frame and an inner surface;
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- a rabbet comprising a floor and a wall, the wall of the rabbet spaced apart from the inner surface of the outer wall to define a channel between the wall of the rabbet and the outer wall, the wall of the rabbet comprising an opening that provides a passageway into the channel;
- a stack positioned in the rabbet;
- a spacer apparatus positioned in the rabbet and detachably coupled to the annular display frame to retain the stack in the rabbet, the spacer apparatus comprising a first engagement feature that nests within at least one of the opening or the channel on a first side of the longitudinal axis and a second engagement feature that nests within at least one of the opening or the channel on a second side of the longitudinal axis;
- wherein the spacer apparatus comprises a first side portion and a second side portion opposite the first side portion, the first side portion comprising the first engagement feature and the second side portion comprising the second engagement feature, the second engagement feature being structurally different than the first engagement feature.
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A frame apparatus comprising:
- a display frame comprising a rabbet comprising a floor and a wall, the wall of the rabbet comprising an engagement feature;
- a stack positioned in the rabbet;
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- a spacer apparatus positioned in the rabbet and detachably coupled to the display frame to retain the stack in the rabbet, the spacer apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of corner pieces;
- first and second sets of components each comprising a first short elongated piece, a hanger piece, and a second short elongated piece, each of the first and second sets of components coupled together and extending between and coupled to two adjacent ones of the corner pieces to form first and third sides of the spacer apparatus;
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- first and second long elongated pieces each extending between and coupled to two adjacent ones of the corner pieces to form second and fourth sides of the spacer apparatus.
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A frame apparatus comprising:
- a display frame comprising a rabbet comprising a floor and a wall, the wall of the rabbet comprising an engagement channel;
- a stack positioned in the rabbet;
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- a spacer apparatus positioned in the rabbet and detachably coupled to the display frame to retain the stack in the rabbet, the spacer apparatus comprising a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and third and fourth sides extending between the first and second sides, each of the first, second, third, and fourth sides comprising an elongated protuberance that nests within the engagement channel to couple the spacer apparatus to the display frame, and wherein the first and third sides further comprise at least one flexible tab that nests within the engagement channel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.