Window assembly for menu board
AssigneeInternational Patterns Incorporated
InventorPaul Kaplan
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Abstract
A menu board assembly comprising a frame for displaying artwork, having a series of frame elements joined together to define the side walls of a generally parallelepiped recess. The frame is superimposed on a light box having a transparent face plate forming the rear wall of a cavity and a transparent window plate is positioned to cover the recess and is superimposed on the front of the face plate. A flexible tape connects the window plate with said face plate for pivotal movement and defines a bight at the hinge. The window plate may be pivoted from a bight-opening position to a bight-closing position to accommodate the insertion or removal of artwork.
Claims11
A menu board assembly comprising
- (a) a frame for displaying artwork, said frame comprised of a series of frame elements;
- (b) said frame elements joined together to define a generally parallelepiped recess having side walls;
- (c) the frame being superimposed on a light box having a transparent or translucent face plate;
- (d) said face plate forming a rear wall of said recess;
- (e) a transparent window plate positioned to cover said recess and being superimposed on said face plate;
- (f) a flexible tape hinge means associating said window plate with said face plate for pivotal movement with respect thereto;
- said window plate and said face plate defining a bight therebetween at said hinge means;
- (g) handle means associated with said window plate remotely of said hinge means;
- (h) whereby said handle means may be grasped to pivot said window plate from a bight-opening position to a bight-closing position to accommodate the insertion or removal of a sheet of graphic material therefrom.
A menu board assembly comprising
- (a) a frame housing a light box having a front face plate;
- (b) retaining means associated with said frame for removably mounting menu item indicia to said front face plate;
- (c) hinge means associating at least one transparent window plate with said front face plate;
- (d) said window plate and said front face plate cooperating to define a display zone for removably mounting transparencies therebetween;
- (e) said hinge means being plastic tape adhered to said face plate and to said window plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.