US 2003/0201376 A1 · Devices and method for hanging a display board

Abstract

Devices for hanging a display board frame wherein a first bracket is mounted on a wall and has a hook on one end supportingly engaging a channel on a corresponding first edge of a display board frame and a second cooperating bracket having a slotted portion is slidingly mounted on the wall in a position corresponding to a second edge of the display board frame spaced apart and opposed to the first display board edge and the second bracket has a hook on its end in alignment with a channel on the second edge of the display board frame; and the display board is releasably secured on the wall when the upper bracket is slid against the display board frame until its hook engages the channel on the second edge of the display board frame, The invention also includes a method for hanging a display board frame including the steps of securing the first bracket on the wall with its hook engaging the channel on one edge of the frame, securing the second slotted bracket on the wall with its hook spaced away from the second edge of the frame, and sliding the second bracket against the channel on the second edge of the frame to secure the frame on the wall.

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Dependent claims

In devices for mounting a display board frame on a wall, said frame having first and second attachment surfaces one on each opposed spaced apart first and second edges of said frame, the improvement comprising

a first bracket means adapted for mounting on said wall,
said first bracket means having a flange on one end adapted to supportingly engage said first attachment surface on said first edge of said display board frame,
a second bracket means adapted for movable mounting on said wall in a position corresponding to said second attachment surface on said second edge of said display board frame,
said second bracket means having a flange adapted for engaging said second attachment surface,
said second bracket flange adapted to have a first position spaced apart from but in alignment with said second attachment surface on said second edge of said display board frame;
said second bracket means having a member adapted for moving it from said first position to a second position wherein said flange engages said second edge of said display board frame to secure said frame on said wall.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Devices and method for hanging a display board

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Devices and method for hanging a display board

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