Furniture designing display and carrying case
AssigneeHarden Furniture, Inc.
InventorsRoderick G. McLean, Sandy W. Soroush
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Abstract
A combination carrying/storage and display device for storing and displaying a number of furniture part transparencies in overlapping relation to form a pictorial presentation of a custom design. Five sets of parts such as arms, backs, seats, cushions and skirts are provided, each set having three to seven different styles of parts. Each individual transparency carries indicia which when combined in overlapping form displays the proper style number, dimensions, quantities of materials etc. for the furniture as designed.
Claims9
In a variable graphic display for selectively presenting a combination of design features of an object in a composite pictorial representation, a combination random access storage/display easel and carrying case adapted for storing a plurality of sets of design feature transparencies of an object and displaying one of each set in an overlapping pictorial presentation including:
- a first display compartment adapted to receive one transparency from each set of design feature transparencies;
- guide means disposed about said first display compartment to operatively engage at least two edges of transparencies placed therein to hold them in overlapping alignment;
- a second storage compartment open at the top and having a front and back member, juxtaposed directly behind said first display compartment and adapted to receive therein a plurality of sets of transparencies;
- said second storage compartment forming the back of the storage/display easel;
- a plurality of sets of object element transparencies disposed in said second compartment each set including a variety of designs for a particular object element;
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- a composite display of one transparency of each of said sets disposed in overlapping alignment in said first compartment to form a pictorial representation of the object
- whereby individual custom designs of the object can be created by selectively choosing different individual transparencies from each set of transparencies in said second compartment and superimposing them in overlapping alignment in said first compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.