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US 4,359,249 AGranted
Display case and a modular display case system
AssigneeGlasbau Heinrich Hahn GmbH & Co. KG
InventorKlaus Fischer
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AssigneeGlasbau Heinrich Hahn GmbH & Co. KG
InventorKlaus Fischer
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A display case being rectangular in a plan elevation, characterized by side walls and a door, each consisting of a glass panel (3,4,5,6) of equal thickness having side edges abutting at each other and having fastening means (16,17), some of them being fastened to an upper and a lower frame (1,2) respectively, the outer surfaces of the upper and lower frames (1,2) ending at a distance from the outer surfaces of the glass panels which distance is at least half of the thickness (25) of one of the glass panels, each one of the glass panels at one end abutting with its inner surface at the end face (21) of the neighboring glass panel, and at its other end (22) abutting with its end face (26) at the inner surface of the glass panel neighboring that other end, and that the fastening means (16,17) of the glass panels (3,4,5,6) are not protruding over the outer surface of their glass panel. There also is described a modular display system consisting of several such display cases.
In a display case which is generally rectangular in plan elevation, and which has glass panels constituting side walls and a door, and upper and lower frames for supporting the glass panels, the improvement in which the glass panels are supported by the upper and lower frames so that the outer surfaces of the glass panels constitute the outermost surfaces of the display case, wherein the outermost surfaces of the upper and lower frames are inside the planes of the outer surfaces of the glass panels by a distance at least half of the thickness of said glass panels, and wherein each of said glass panels at one end thereof abuts with its inner surface at the end face of the adjacent glass panel, and at its other end abuts with its end face at the inner surface of the glass panel adjacent to said other end.
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