Display unit with a removable indicator panel
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorSusumu Shirasaka
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Abstract
A display unit includes a casing formed with an opening and a removable panel adopted to be mounted in the opening. The casing has a groove formed in a portion of the edge defining the opening. The removable panel has a projection extending outwards from a portion of its perimeter and engageable in the groove. The removable panel is mounted in the opening in the casing with the projection engaged in the groove.
Claims19
A display unit comprising a casing having an opening and a removable panel adapted to be mounted in said opening, said casing having a recess formed in a portion of the edge defining said opening and further having a means for detachably engaging a slidable support plate which can be inserted into and extracted from the casing, said removable panel having a projection extending outwards from a portion of the perimeter thereof and engageable in said recess, said removable panel being mounted in said opening in the casing with said projection engaged in said recess.
A display unit comprising:
- first removable panel means including indicium depicted therein, and having first and second means formed respectively on edge portions of said panel means opposed to each other;
- a casing having first and second walls connected together to assume a generally L-shaped cross-section, said first wall having a first opening defined therein, said first opening being recessed inwardly from one edge of the first wall connected to the second wall, said first wall having a third means formed on a portion of the peripheral edge of the first opening remote from the joint of the first and second walls, said second wall having fourth means, said first panel means being adopted to be accommodated in said first opening with said first means engaged with said third means;
- support plate means having fifth means and a sixth means;
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- guide means for guiding said support plate means slidingly in a direction parallel to the second wall from an extracted position in which the support plate means is separated from the casing to an inserted position in which the support plate means is attached to the second wall by the guide means, said fifth means of the support plate means, when said support plate means is inserted to the inserted position, being engaged with said fourth means of the second wall for retaining the support plate means in the inserted position, and said sixth means of the support plate means, when said support plate means is inserted to the inserted position, being engaged with said second means of the first panel means for retaining the first panel means in said first opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.