Support frame kit for canopies, display racks and the like
AssigneeC & W Industries, LLC
InventorsVan Wadsworth, Bill Moorer, Gene Combest
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Abstract
A support frame kit for canopies and display racks includes vertical posts and horizontal rails which are coupled to one another by square sockets mounted on the posts which receive square pintles projecting from the ends of the rails. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the rails are secured to the posts by removable pins and provide support for a canopy which is attached at its periphery to peripheral rails by attachment loops. In another embodiment of the invention rails are joined by struts and project from couplings fixed to the posts to provide shelves of a display rack.
Claims35
A support frame kit comprising:
- at least two posts, each post having a first end, a second end and a longitudinal axis;
- sockets each having a non-round interior geometry therein, the sockets being fixed to the posts at locations laterally spaced from the longitudinal axes thereof and adjacent to at least the second ends of the posts, and
- rails having first and second ends, each rail having at least one non-rotatable pintle projecting transversely from one end of the rail, the non-rotatable pintles having an exterior geometry corresponding to the non-rotatable interior geometry of the sockets, whereby rails are non-rotatably coupled to the posts upon inserting at least one non-rotatable pintle on each rail into one of the sockets on each post.
In combination, a support frame assembled from a support frame kit and a canopy, the combination comprising
- an array of square posts, each post having four square sockets fixed to the sided thereof adjacent to the top end thereof;
- an array of square rails, each having two square pintles projecting from opposite ends thereof and being received in the square sockets fixed to the posts to provide a support frame, and
- the canopy with a periphery thereof being attached to the rails of the support frame.
In combination, a support frame assembled from a support frame kit and at least one shelf assembled therewith to form a display rack, the combination comprising:
- a pair of square posts each having a pair of square sockets fixed adjacent to upper and lower ends thereof, as well as at least one location between the upper and lower ends;
- a pair of base rails, each having a square pintle inserted into one of the square sockets adjacent to the lower end of one of the posts to support the posts in a vertical orientation,
- at least one pair of rails having pintles inserted into a pair of sockets above the lower ends of the posts, the at least one pair of rails having a horizontal shelf fixed thereto to laterally brace the posts and to support display items thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.