Deflectable price channel-mounted sign holder
AssigneeHenschel-Steinau, Inc.
InventorsStanley L. Levine, Lee R. Wiese
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Abstract
A sign holder includes a frame secured to a clevis journaled on a bracket for attachment to a price channel at the edge of a display shelf for projecting the frame, and a sign carried in the frame, laterally from the shelf edge into a display position of the sign, the clevis including an integral camming surface and a resiliently flexible arm for allowing swinging of the frame relative to the bracket out of the display position of the sign in response to collisions with the sign when the frame is in the display position of the sign, the establishing a biasing force tending to return the frame to and maintain the frame in the display position of the sign.
Claims7
In a sign holder for use in connection with a price channel extending in a longitudinal direction along a shelf edge to locate a sign for display beyond the shelf edge in a display position where the sign projects laterally from the price channel and to bias the sign into the display position while permitting swinging movement of the sign to of the display position in response to forces applied to the sign holder in directions generally parallel to the longitudinal direction, the sign holder including a sign frame within which the sign is held and a bracket for selectively attaching the sign frame to the price channel, the improvement comprising:
- a clevis having transversely opposite, laterally extending first and second arms and a transverse leg interconnecting the first and second arms;
- affixing means for affixing the sign frame to the clevis;
- a first camming surface on the clevis adjacent the first arm;
- a first bearing surface carried by the second arm and confronting the first camming surface;
- at least one of the first and second arms being resiliently deflectable in transverse directions relative to the other of the first and second arms;
- a second camming surface on the bracket and being generally complementary to the first camming surface;
- a second bearing surface on the bracket spaced transversely from the second camming surface and being generally complementary to the first bearing surface such that the clevis and the bracket may be nested in a rest position wherein the first camming surface is engaged with the complementary second camming surface, and the first bearing surface is engaged with the complementary second bearing surface;
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- pivot means connecting the nested clevis and bracket for pivotal movement of the clevis relative to the bracket about a transverse axis such that any movement of the sign frame away from the display position of the sign will result in pivotal movement of the clevis relative to the bracket and consequent operation of the first and second camming surfaces for deflection of at least one of the first and second arms transversely relative to the other of the first ad second arms to establish a resilient biasing force tending to return the clevis to the rest position and the sign frame to the display position of the sign.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.