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US 4,471,548 AGranted
Display frames
AssigneeJohn Goudie Associates, Inc.
InventorJohn Goudie
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Abstract
A collapsible, portable display frame may be erected so that it has either a planar or non-planar face surface. Snap fasteners associated with pivot bodies on the face surface cooperate with stabilizing strips or graphics. Graphics may be easily hung in sheets which cover an entire column of structural units of the display frame, and magnetic strips hold the sheets in alignment along their edges.
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A collapsible, articulated structural section which is movable between a stable erect configuration and a collapsed configuration, said structure comprising:
- a first plurality of pivot means disposed to be substantially in a first plane in said erect configuration and to be substantially adjacent each other in said collapsed configuration;
- a second plurality of pivot means disposed to be substantially in a second plane in said erect configuration and to be substantially adjacent each other in said collapsed configuration;
- a plurality of pivotally interconnected side links for connecting said first plurality of pivot means with said second plurality of pivot means, each of said links being connected with one of said first plurality of pivot means and one of said second plurality of pivot means;
- a face pivot means;
- and a plurality of face links, each of said face links connected with said face pivot means and with one of said first pivot means;
- a male snap fastener mounted on at least a plurality of said first plurality of pivot means and extending outwardly away from said second plurality of pivot means;
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- a strip of rigid material, said strip having female fastener means disposed at spaced locations therealong, and said female fastener means being spaced from each other substantially the same distance as the distance between said first plurality of pivot means with male fasteners when said structure is in said erect configuration.
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A collapsible, articulated structural section which is movable between a stable erect configuration and a collapsed configuration, said structure comprising:
- a first plurality of pivot means disposed to be substantially in a first plane in said erect configuration and to be substantially adjacent each other in said collapsed configuration;
- a second plurality of pivot means disposed to be substantially in a second plane in said erect configuration and to be substantially adjacent each other in said collapsed configuration;
- a plurality of pivotally interconnected side links for connecting said first plurality of pivot means with said second plurality of pivot means, each of said links being connected with one of said first plurality of pivot means and one of said second plurality of pivot means;
- a face pivot means;
- and a plurality of face links, each of said face links connected with said face pivot means and with one of said first pivot means;
- a male snap fastener mounted on at least a plurality of said first plurality of pivot means and extending outwardly away from said second plurality of pivot means, including male fasteners disposed on adjacent first pivot means;
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- a sheet of material having indicia on one face thereof and having a width and length substantially great enough to cover the face surface of said section, said sheet having at one end thereof a pair of spaced openings, each opening being dimensioned to receive a male fastener of said first pivot means therein;
- and a cap means with a female fastener for operatively engaging each male fastener and holding said sheet in operative association with said structure, each said cap means having a head portion substantially larger than said sheet openings.
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A collapsible, articulated structural assembly which is movable between a stable erect configuration and a collapsed configuration, said structure when in the erect configuration having a top, and a front face;
- a first flexible sheet of material having indicia on one face thereof and having a length substantially as great as the height of said assembly;
- a second flexible sheet of material having indicia on one face thereof and having a height substantially the same as the height of said assembly;
- means for holding edges of said first and second sheets at the top of said assembly so that said sheets drape to cover the face of said assembly;
- and thin flexible strips of magnetic material disposed on the indicia-containing face of said first sheet along one edge thereof, and substantially vertically extending when attached to the top of said assembly, and on the opposite face of said second sheet along one edge thereof adjacent said first sheet and parallel to the magnetic strip on said first sheet, said magnetic strips having an attractive force between them and holding said sheets in alignment, with overlapping edges, when said sheets are draped to cover the face of said assembly.
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A collapsible, articulated structural section which is movable between a stable erect configuration and a collapsed configuration, said structure comprising:
- a first plurality of pivot means disposed to be substantially in a first plane in said erect configuration and to be substantially adjacent each other in said collapsed configuration;
- a second plurality of pivot means disposed to be substantially in a second plane in said erect configuration and to be substantially adjacent each other in said collapsed configuration;
- a plurality of pivotally interconnected side links for connecting said first plurality of pivot means with said second plurality of pivot means, each of said links being connected with one of said first plurality of pivot means and one of said second plurality of pivot means;
- a face pivot means;
- and a plurality of face links, each of said face links connected with said face pivot means and with one of said first pivot means;
- a male snap fastener mounted on at least a plurality of said first plurality of pivot means and extending outwardly away from said second plurality of pivot means;
- one pair of side links comprising bottom side links, and each of said bottom side links having at least one male fastener extending downwardly therefrom;
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- a rod having a pair of female fasteners spaced along the length thereof a distance corresponding to the spacing between said male fasteners and said bottom side links when said structural section is in an erect configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.