Advertising device for airliner seat back or snack tray table
OwnerStephen J. Zeligsoninventor
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Abstract
An improvement in airliner seat backs and snack tray tables facilitates the display of replaceable printed or pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated rearwardly of the display. The materials are displayed through a transparent window pane overlaping the interior perimeter of a window in the rear portion of the seat back or the top or bottom sides of the table. The printed or pictorial materials are releasably held in face-to-face relationship with the window pane by various means depending on the structure of the seat back or table. The improvement is adapted to existing tray tables by use of a thin resiliently flexible member fitted to the contours of the tray table and releasably snappable to the table with the printed or pictorial materials in place.
Claims14
In airliner passenger seats having cushions supported by a seat back having a continuous smooth-flowing gradual contour along substantially the entire back surface thereof, an improvement facilitating the display of replaceable printed or pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated rearwardly of the displaying seat comprising:
- a window having a perimeter disposed in and conforming to said contour of said seat back;
- a transparent window pane shaped to overlap said perimeter of said window;
- means for securing said pane to the interior of said seat back with said window pane disposed to conform to said contour of said seatback in overlapping relationship to said perimeter;
- means permitting the removable insertion of said printed or pictorial materials in face-to-face relationship with said pane;
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- means for holding said printed or pictorial materials in said face-to-face relationship.
In foldout tray tables used with airliner passenger seats, an improvement facilitating the display of replaceable printed and pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated rearwardly of a closed tray table comprising:
- a table base having a window therethrough and having a seat disposed in its interior surface along the periphery of said window;
- a transparent window pane shaped to rest in said window seat;
- a table top shaped to removably rest within said window seat for holding said printed or pictorial materials in face-to-face relationship to said window pane;
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- means for releasably securing said table top within said window seat.
In foldout tray tables used with airline passenger seats, an improvement facilitating the display of replaceable printed or pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated rearwardly of a closed tray table comprising:
- a table top;
- a table base having a window therethrough and having a seat disposed in its interior surface along the periphery of said window;
- a transparent window pane shaped to rest in said window seat;
- a hinge connecting said table top and said table base for articulation of said base and said window pane into and out of laminar relationship with said top;
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- means for releasably securing said top, said pane and said base in laminar relationship.
In foldout tray tables used with airliner passenger seats, an improvement facilitating the display of replaceable printed and pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated at an open tray table comprising:
- a table top having a window therethrough;
- a transparent window pane shaped to overlap the perimeter of said window;
- a table base for holding said printed or pictorial materials in face-to-face relationship against said window pane and said window pane against said table top;
- means for releasably securing said table top, said window pane, said materials and said table base in laminar relationship.
In foldout tray tables used with airliner passenger seats, an improvement facilitating the display of replaceable printed or pictorial materials for viewing by passengers comprising:
- a tray table having two planar surfaces;
- means forming sides of said table tray for spacing said surfaces in substantially parallel planes;
- a window disposed in at least one of said surfaces;
- a transparent window pane overlapping the interior perimeter of said window;
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- access means disposed through one side of said tray table for removable insertion of materials against the interior surface of said transparent window pane.
In airliner passenger seats having cushions supported by a seatback, an improvement facilitating the display of replacable printed or pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated rearwardly of the displaying seat comprising:
- a detachable portion of said seatback;
- a window having a perimeter disposed in said detachable portion of said seatback;
- a transparent window pane shaped to overlap said perimeter of said window;
- means for securing said pane to an interior of said detachable portion of said seatback in overlapping relationship to said perimeter;
- a hinge connecting said detachable portion to said seatback;
- a retaining means for releasably engaging an unhinged segment of said detachable portion to said seatback;
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- means for holding said printed or pictorial materials in face-to-face relationship with said pane.
In airline passenger seats having cushions supported by a seatback, an improvement facilitating the display of replacable printed or pictorial materials for viewing by passengers seated rearwardly of the displaying seat comprising:
- a window disposed in said seatback;
- a transparent window pane shaped to overlap the perimeter of said window;
- means for securing said pane to an interior of said seatback in overlapping relationship to said perimeter;
- means permitting the removable insertion of said printed or pictorial materials in face-to-face relationship with said pane;
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- a compressible cushion of sufficient depth to press said materials against said pane in a face-to-face relationship when said cushion is mounted in said seatback.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.