Pliable pin strip
OwnerWard Fleminginventor
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Abstract
A display device includes a highly pliable web having an array of longitudinally and transversely pins mounted on a face of the web, the pins having shanks projecting upwardly perpendicular to the area of the web at which the respective pin shanks are located. A shaping member has a contoured pressed against the underface of the web to recoverably deform the web and vary the pin shank orientations. Different webs and pin anchoring constructions are described.
Claims6
A display device comprising a pliable first web having opposite inner and outer faces and responsive to deformation of said inner face to correspondingly deform said outer face, and array of closely spaced pins carried by said web, each of said pins including an enlarged head anchored to said web and an elongated shank projecting outwardly from said outer face perpendicular to said outer face adjacent to said respective pin head and shaping means for applying pressure to said web inner face varying in amount and direction to form said web to a predetermined contour.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.