US 5,150,792 AGranted

Display device for coin certification encasements

OwnerDavid M. Munroeinventor

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Abstract

A display device in the form of a mounting frame which releasably holds a plurality of coin certification encasements (slabs) in a predetermined pattern. The mounting frame has a plurality of slab seats, each in the form of an aperture dimensioned to receive a slab, a peripheral lip running along the sidewalls of the aperture for retaining the slab in a seated position within the aperture, and at the other end of each aperture a resilient boss on opposing sidewalls. In operation, a slab is placed forceably between the two resilient lips and seated within the aperture, both sides of the coin and its slab being visible. When it is desired to remove the slab from the display device, the user simply forces the slab past the resilient bosses. Alternatively, the apertures may be provided with resiliently biased curved sidewalls which frictionally engage the edges of the slab so as to seat the slab within the aperture.

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Dependent claims

A display device for holding at least one article, each article having predetermined dimensions characterized by a first side, a second side and an edge located between said first and second sides, said display device comprising:

a substantially inflexible mounting frame having at least one seat for releasably holding one said article therein, each seat comprising:
seat sidewalls defining an aperture through said mounting frame, said aperture having a first end and a second end, said seat sidewalls being dimensioned to abuttably receive one said article;
peripheral rim means connected with said seat sidewalls at said first end of said aperture for abuttably engaging the article so as to prevent the article from exiting said aperture at said first end thereof;
and
boss means connected with said seat sidewalls at said second end of said aperture for resiliently yielding when one said article is caused to be inserted into said seat and for releasably retaining the article in said seat;
wherein said boss means and said mounting frame are structured so that said boss means resiliently yields while said mounting frame is substantially unflexed when one said article is caused to be inserted into said seat, and said peripheral rim means is structured to abuttably engage the article to prevent the article from exiting said aperture at said first end thereof when the article is located in said seat;
wherein further each of said peripheral rim means, said boss means and said seat sidewalls abut one said article so as to interferingly trap the article within said seat, said boss means being structured to extend a substantial length along at least two opposing said sidewalls of said aperture, said boss means being further structured to resiliently yield upon abutment with respect to the article so that the article is pressed into said seat and is pressed out from said seat by a user using only a comfortable amount of force which is substantially less than that which could damage said mounting frame so as to move the article past said boss means.

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A display device for holding at least one article in each of three dimensional axes, each article having predetermined dimensions characterized by a first side, a second side and an edge located between said first and second sides, said display device comprising:

a substantially inflexible mounting frame having at least one seat for releasably holding one said article therein, each seat comprising:
seat sidewalls defining an aperture through said mounting frame, said aperture having a first end and a second end, said seat sidewalls being dimensioned to abuttably receive one said article, at least one of said seat sidewalls being curved a predetermined amount so as to resiliently bias into said aperture;
and
peripheral rim means connected with said seat sidewalls at said first end of said aperture for abuttably engaging the article so as to prevent the article from exiting said aperture at said first end thereof;
wherein the at least one curved seat sidewall is structured to abut one said article and thereupon resiliently yield by the curve thereof becoming less than said predetermined amount when the article is caused to be inserted into said seat, and said peripheral rim means is structured to abuttably engage the article to prevent the article from exiting said aperture at said first end thereof when the article is located in said seat;
wherein further each of said peripheral rim means and said seat sidewalls abut one said article so as to interferingly trap the article within said seat in combination along two dimensional axes, and friction between the edges of the article and said seat sidewalls retains the article within the seat along the third dimensional axis.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.