US 2006/0038393 A1Published application

Folding display apparatus

AssigneePopsicle Displays Pty Ltd

InventorJoseph Sgambellone

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Abstract

The invention provides an improved display board apparatus which can be folded down when not in use so as to be substantially flat. The apparatus 41 when in its assembled erect condition, has a front panel 12, a rear panel 14 joined to the front panel along opposite vertical sides thereof, and a plurality of elastic traction members 42 attached to the rear panel 14 and arranged to tension rear panel 14 so that the front panel 12 assumes a convex shape. The improvement consists of an integrally formed rearwardly projecting spine 44 in the rear panel 14 extending between the upper and lower edges thereof, the spine 44 being delineated by a plurality of parallel spaced apart fold lines 24, 26, 26′. Each of the elastic traction members 42 extends across and through the spine and has its opposite ends anchored at locations adjacent the sides of the spine 44.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A display apparatus of the kind comprising a front panel on which visual information is displayed, a rear panel hingedly joined to said first panel along its opposite longitudinal margins, and a plurality of vertically spaced traction members attached to the rear panel and arranged, when the display unit is in its in-use position, to tension the rear panel so that the front panel is caused to assume a convex shape, the improvement wherein:

(i) said rear panel includes an integrally formed rearwardly projecting spine extending between the upper and lower edges of the rear panel centrally thereof, said rearwardly projecting spine being delineated by a plurality of parallel, spaced apart fold lines extending longitudinally between said upper and lower edges of the rear panel and,
(ii) each of said traction members extends across and through said spine, and each having ends which are anchored at locations in the rear panel spaced outwardly of the sides of the spine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.