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US 4,784,205 AGranted
Display system
OwnerDavid B. Johnson, Fredrik A. Johnson +1inventors
InventorsDavid B. Johnson, Fredrik A. Johnson, Robert R. Zuehlsdorff
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Abstract
A kit for assembling a portable display system. The kit includes a plurality of H-shaped members which can be assembled one on top of the other, a flexible panel attachable to the assembled H-members and a tensioning device for tensioning the flexible panel.
Claims8
A kit for constructing a portable display system, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of generally H-shaped members, each of said members being sized and shaped substantially the same as the other of the members and including a pair of generally parallel legs defining a common plane, and a corresponding cross-bar, offset from said plane defined by associated legs, interconnecting said leg;
- (b) means for mating either leg of one of said generally H-shaped members with either leg of another of said members, with mated legs aligned along an axis;
- (c) means for disposing an assembly of mated generally H-shaped members wherein said assembly angles away from a surface on which the display system is to be posited;
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- (d) at least one segment of flexible backdrop material attachable to said assembly to drape downwardly over at least a portion thereof;
- (e) wherein said generally H-shaped members can be nested together.
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A kit for constructing a portable display system, comprising:
- (a) a base;
- (b) a plurality of matable, generally H-shaped members releasably securable to said base and supported thereby at an angle relative to a surface on which the display system is to be posited;
- (c) a flexible panel attachable to one of said plurality of mated, generally H-shaped members and drapable downwardly therefrom;
- (d) means, carried by said flexible panel at an upper end thereof, for connecting said flexible panel to one of said plurality of H-shaped members;
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- (e) a pair of fingers pivotably mounted to at least one of said plurality of generally H-shaped members adjacent a bottom edge of said flexible panel, when said panel is attached to one of said generally H-shaped members.
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A kit for constructing a portable display system, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of generally H-shaped members, each of said members being sized and shaped substantially the same as the other of the members and including a pair of generally parallel legs and a cross-bar interconnecting said legs;
- (b) means for mating either leg of one of said generally H-shaped members with either leg of another of said members, with mated legs aligned along an axis;
- (c) means for disposing an assembly of mated, generally H-shaped members wherein said assembly angles away from a surface on which the display system is to be posited;
- (d) at least one segment of flexible backdrop material attachable to said assembly to drape downwardly over at least a portion thereof;
- (e) means, carried by each of said segments at an upper end thereof, for connecting one or more of said segments to said assembly of mated, generally H-shaped members;
- (f) a lip extending along a lower end of each of said segments;
- (g) a resilient tensioning finger, said finger having a lower end extending, when said finger is unflexed, downwardly beyond said lip of a segment of backdrop material draped over a related portion of said assembly, said lower end including catch means configured to receive said lip of said segment;
- (h) means for mounting said finger to a leg of a generally H-shaped member adjacent said lip for pivoting about an axis generally parallel to a plane defined by said segment, wherein said finger can be pivoted to capture said lip in said catch means;
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- (i) means for locking said finger along said leg to which it is pivotally mounted to hold said segment taut against said leg.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.