Unitary multi-tiered display device with axis encircling article receiving portions
OwnerDonald L. O'Connellinventor
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Abstract
A formed unitary display device includes at least two concentric and stepped arcuate ledges for receiving and holding various fruits, nuts and other articles. The unitary display device also includes a rupturable top planar surface, which prior to rupture serves as an additional display surface. Upon rupturing of the panel, a lip surrounding the ruptured area serves as a support for various containers fitting therewithin.
Claims26
A display device for displaying articles such as comestibles, flowers and similar items, said device comprising a unitary body of a plastic material having a predetermined vertical axis, said body comprising:
- a plurality of hollow tier portions, encircling said axis and disposed in vertically spaced relation to each other, each vertically higher tier portion having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the next adjacent tier portion vertically therebelow and each of said tier portions having an external horizontal portion which substantially continuously encircles said axis and which in a cross-sectional plane parallel to and intersecting said vertical axis, is downwardly concave and at its radially outward edge being connected to said next adjacent tier portion by a lip which is vertically higher than the vertically lowest portion of the tier portion to retain articles placed on the external horizontal portion, and the radially innermost portion of at least one of said tier portions being spaced from said axis.
A display device for displaying articles such as comestibles, flowers and similar items, said device comprising a unitary body of a plastic material having a predetermined vertical axis, said body comprising:
- a plurality of tier portions, encircling said axis and disposed in vertically spaced relation to each other, each vertically higher tier portion having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the next adjacent tier portion vertically therebelow and each of said tier portions, in a cross-sectional plane parallel to and intersecting said vertical axis, being downwardly concave and at its radially outward edge being connected to said next adjacent tier portion by a lip which is vertically higher than the vertically lowest portion of the tier portion to retain articles placed on the tier portion, the radially innermost portion of at least one of said tier portions being spaced from said axis;
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- the radially innermost portion of the vertically highest tier portion being spaced from said axis and said vertically highest tier portion comprising a rupturable panel extending substantially perpendicularly to said vertical axis and connected at its radially outward edge to the radially inner portion of said vertically highest tier portion.
A display device for displaying articles such as comestibles, flowers and similar items, said device comprising a unitary body of a plastic material having a predetermined vertical axis, said body comprising:
- a plurality of hollow tier portions, encircling said axis and disposed in vertically spaced relation to each other, each vertically higher tier portion having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the next adjacent tier portion vertically therebelow and each of said tier portions having an external horizontal portion which substantially continuously encircles said axis and which in a cross-sectional plane parallel to and intersecting said vertical axis, being downwardly concave and at its radially outward edge is connected to said next adjacent tier portion by a lip which is vertically higher than the vertically lowest portion of the tier portion to retain articles placed on the external horizontal portion, and the radially innermost portion of at least one of said tier portions being spaced from said axis;
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- an uppermost top portion having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the tier portion vertically therebelow and connected thereto, and comprising at least two lips spaced from said axis, each adjacent pair of lips having a groove therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.