Alignment guide for an overhead track support arrangement
AssigneeRose Displays, Ltd.
InventorsDavid E. Pitcher, Rebecca C. Suciu, Thomas P. Burrous, Alan L. Stenfors, Sidney Rose
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Abstract
An alignment guide for maintaining perpendicularity between an elongated anchor rail secured to an overhead support and a sign supporting elongated adjustment rail, comprising: a guide housing having an anchor rail receiving channel arranged across an upper surface thereof; an adjustment rail receiving channel arranged across a lower side of the guide housing, wherein the anchor rail receiving channel and the adjustment rail receiving channel are perpendicular to one another.
Claims16
An alignment guide for maintaining perpendicularity between an elongated anchor rail secured to an overhead support and a sign supporting elongated adjustment rail, comprising:
- a guide housing having an anchor rail receiving channel for receipt of a secured anchor rail therein, which anchor rail receiving channel is arranged across an upper surface of the guide housing;
- an adjustment rail receiving channel arranged across a lower side of the guide housing for receipt of a displaceable adjustment rail, and wherein the anchor rail receiving channel and the adjustment rail receiving channel are perpendicular to one another.
A method to maintain perpendicularity between a pair of elongated, overhead, parallel, hollow-channeled anchor rails secured to an overhead support, and a sign supportable, elongated, hollow-channeled displaceable adjustment rail slidable between the parallel, overhead-attached anchor support rails, comprising:
- inserting at least one shaped connector into the hollow channel of the elongated adjustment rail;
- placing an alignment guide over the at least one connector, the alignment guide having a lower channel arranged to straddle the adjustment rail;
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- inserting a head of the at least one connector into the hollow channel of the anchor support rail and simultaneously capturing the upper anchor rail within the upper anchor receiving channel of the alignment guide thereby.
An alignment guide for maintaining perpendicularity between an elongated anchor rail secured to an overhead support and a sign supporting elongated adjustment rail, comprising:
- a guide housing having an anchor rail receiving channel arranged across an upper surface thereof;
- an adjustment rail receiving channel arranged across a lower side of the guide housing, wherein the anchor rail receiving channel and the adjustment rail receiving channel are perpendicular to one another;
- wherein the guide housing has a central connector-receiving opening for receipt of a “hanger” shaped rail connector normally through both the anchor rail receiving channel and the adjustment rail receiving channel;
- wherein the adjustment rail receiving channel has at least one pressure bump arranged therein;
- wherein the anchor rail receiving channel has central alignment flange arranged along end portions of the anchor rail receiving channel, bisecting the anchor rail receiving channel;
- wherein the anchor rail receiving channel and the anchor rail receiving channel are bisected by the central opening;
- wherein the connector extends distally beyond the guide flange within the anchor rail;
- wherein the anchor rail receiving channel is bifurcated by the central connector receiving opening;
- wherein the adjustment rail receiving channel is bisected by the central connector receiving opening;
- wherein the anchor rail and the adjustment rail have common cross-sectional configurations;
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- wherein the adjustment rail is arranged to slide longitudinally therewithin and the anchor rail is arranged to allow longitudinal sliding therewithin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.