Display card holder
OwnerBrett De Dubeinventor
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Abstract
An improved display card holder, adapted for use in bulletin boards, as in arrival and departure boards for airlines, characterized by a retaining channel, in a base member, adapted to slideably receive a linear display card element, and a latch lever arm with a head extending through an opening in the base, which head is resiliently mounted and abuts against and arrests lateral motion of the display card element, so as to detachably secure the display card in the retaining track. A feature of the invention is that the operative elements of the latch are concealed and secured from tampering. A further feature of the invention is that its separate elements may be assembled or removed from the holder without the use of hand tools or fasteners.
Claims7
A lockable display card holder, of the type adapted to receive an inserted card, comprising, in combination,
- a. an elongated base member, having upper channel means for slideably accepting a display card, a hole for accepting a latch head, the head adapted to retain the display card from lateral displacement, and lower channel means for slideably accepting a latch assembly,
- b. a latch assembly, comprising a concealed carriage member operatively associated in sliding relationship with the lower channel means, and defining a recess for accepting a latch lever arm, the arm having a head at one end in cooperative association with the base member hole, the head adapted to extend through the hole as a stop against the display card, and defining a lip depending therefrom and proportioned for interferring contact with the carriage member when in operative position, and for clearance therefrom when in transverse sliding non-operative position, the arm having a further lip at its opposite end in pivot relationship with the lower channel means, the arm being disposed between the carriage member and the base member in the cavity formed by the adjacent mating recess of the carriage member and the lower channel of the base member,
- c. resilient means located in the cavity, between the latch lever arm and the carriage member, such that the head is urged to extend through the hole to an operative position in locking relationship to the base member, the resilient means being affixed to both the latch lever arm and the carriage member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.