Self-supporting element for mosaic display panel
AssigneeMonitronik Ltee
InventorsFrank Taylor, Klemens Maurer
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Abstract
The disclosure herein describes an element so constructed as to inter-connect with a similarly constructed element in the making of a mosaic display panel, the element defining a rectangular body, the outer wall of which is provided with a longitudinal projecting guide and a longitudinal channel transversely spaced from one another; the channel has a cross-section so dimensioned as to include therein the cross-section of the guide whereby the guide and channel of an adjacently disposed similarly constructed element may interfit in the channel and guide, respectively, of the first element; each channel includes, at one end thereof, an entry pocket to funnel initial engagement of the guide of two adjacent elements to be engaged to one another in a sliding motion.
Claims7
A self-supporting element for use in the assembly of a mosaic display panel, comprising:
- a rectangular body having a sidewall displaying on the outer face thereof outwardly projecting longitudinal guide means and longitudinal channel means spaced transversely from said guide means and disposed generally parallel thereto;
- said channel means having a cross-section so dimensioned as to include therein the cross-section of said guide means whereby the guide means and channel means of a similarly constructed sidewall of an adjacently disposed element slidably interfit in said channel means and said guide means, respectively;
- each said channel means including at one end thereof entry pocket means, having a width significantly than said channel means, for facilitating initial engagement of the guide means of a first of two of said self-supporting elements with the channel means of a second of said elements, and vice versa, during sliding motion of said elements with respect to each other.
A self-supporting first block for mounting to a similarly constructed second block in the assembly of a mosaic display panel, comprising:
- a rectangular body of each block having opposite sidewalls, each sidewall having an outer face displaying thereon outwardly projecting longitudinal guide means and longitudinal channel means spaced transversely from said guide means and disposed generally parallel thereto;
- said channel means having a cross-section so dimensioned as to include therein the cross-section of said guide means whereby the guide means and channel means of said second, adjacently disposed block may interfit in said channel means and said guide means, respectively of said first block;
- each said guide means including, at one end thereof, entry pocket means, having a width significantly greater than said guide means, for facilitating initial engagement of the guide means of said first block with the channel means of said second block, and vice versa, during sliding motion of said first and second blocks with respect to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.