US 4,899,971 AGranted

Display assembly

AssigneePlastic Development, Inc.

InventorAlfred A. Elkin

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Abstract

A display assembly includes a channel member which is adapted to be received in a substantially horizontal, upwardly facing disposition on a supporting surface, a hanger member which is receivable in engagement with the channel member and a package member which is receivable on the hanger member and operative for supporting and displaying an item in front of the supporting surface. The hanger member includes an engagement portion which is receivable in engagement with the hanger member and at least one arm which extends outwardly from the engagement portion, and the package member is receivable on the arm of the hanger member. In a first embodiment of the display assembly the package member comprises a display box which is releasably receivable on the arm and operative for supporting and displaying an item contained in the box. In a second embodiment of the display assembly, the package member comprises a package such as a display card which is receivable on the hanger member so that it is operative for displaying an item in front of the supporting surface.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A display assembly comprising:

(a) a channel member adapted to be mounted in a substantially horizontal, upwardly facing disposition on a substantially vertical supporting surface, said channel member including spaced inner and outer walls and an inner lip on the inner side of one of said inner or outer walls which cooperates with the other of said inner or outer walls to define a reduced mouth of said channel member;
(b) a hanger member including an engagement portion and an arm portion, said engagement portion being detachably snap received in said channel member and including a downwardly extending resilient leg and a downwardly extending resilient latch element adjacent said leg, said latch element engaging said lip to retain said engagement portion in releasable interlocking engagement in said channel member, said downwardly extending leg engaging the one of said inner or outer walls which is opposite from said lip to retain said latch element in engagement with said lip, said arm portion being attached to said leg and extending outwardly from said channel member and said supporting surface when said channel member is mounted on said supporting surface;
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(c) a package member received on said arm portion and operative for containing an item for display in front of said supporting surface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.