Display apparatus

An apparatus, comprising:

• a housing including a frame comprising a top, bottom, and first and second sides;
• a plurality of rotatable display elements, each of the display elements having a base and a top, and comprising three side members, each side member having a first and second edge, the first edge of a given member adapted to engage a second edge of a respective adjacent member;
• means for supporting and rotating the display elements in a suspension fashion from the top of the display elements;
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• a plurality of spot-light sources, one of the plurality of sources associated with one of the plurality of display elements and positioned in the bottom of the housing below the base of the display elements directing illumination through the base of the display element toward the top of the display element.

A display system, comprising:

• a frame having a top member, bottom member, and first and second side members separating the top and bottom members;
• a plurality of display members, each of the plurality of display members including multiple sides and a top and a bottom, each of the sides including a first and second edge, each first edge on one of the sides being adapted to form an interlocking fit with a respective second edge on another of the sides;
• means for suspending the display members and rotating the display members such that respective ones of the sides of the display members forms display plane at a given moment in time;
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• means for illuminating each of the plurality of display members, the means for illuminating being positioned in the bottom member of the frame below the display members and directing a light upward toward the top of said display members.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a housing having a top, bottom, a first side and a second side;
• a display element drive track mounted in the top of the housing, the drive track having a plurality of rotatable gear elements;
• a plurality of triangular display elements having a first end and a second end, each of the plurality of elements being coupled to the respective gear elements at the first end, each display element comprised of a first, second and third side;
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• means for illuminating the display elements, the means being positioned in the bottom of the housing below the second end and directing illumination toward the top of the display elements.