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US 5,625,969 AGranted
Low visibility placard display stand
OwnerMichael N. Voglerinventor
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A display stand for display placards includes a support base formed of a preferably flat bottom wall, upstanding opposite side walls, and an interior partition wall defining between them two generally upwardly opening channels separated by the partition wall, and a cooperating pair of resilient transparent normally flat plastic sheets having their respective lower margins engaged in the channels with most of the remainder of their area in face-to-face planar contact for receiving the placard sandwiched therebetween. Opposite faces of the side walls and interior partition wall have mutually facing guide surfaces thereon which are inclined upwardly and inwardly whereby at least corresponding portions of the channels flare downwardly and outwardly to cause the lower margins of the plastic sheets when inserted into the channels to flex outwardly of each other at a significant angle out of the plane of their contacting faces and thus resiliently bias the remainder of the sheets together to secure the advertising matter in place. Preferably, each of the side walls has at least one longitudinal bead of elastomeric material on its inner face for elastic contact with the sheet lower margins. The support base is preferably extruded in tubular form and the longitudinal bead co-extruded therewith. Ends of the support base can be closed by end caps adapted for press-fitting engagement therewith and the end caps can have laterally extending stabilizing feet.
A display frame for supporting in a generally vertical position display placards which comprises an elongated substantially rigid base having a bottom wall, opposite side walls upstanding from opposite lateral edges of said bottom wall, said side walls having substantially coterminous upper edges, and an interior partition wall upstanding from the bottom wall generally intermediate the opposite side walls to define with the side walls two upwardly opening channels, said side walls and said partition wall carrying mutually facing cooperating interior guide surfaces sloping from the vertical to impart to said channels an upwardly converging inclination at a significant angle from the vertical, and a cooperating pair of substantially stiffly resilient transparent normally flat plastic sheets which extend upwardly from said base generally perpendicularly to said bottom wall of said base in face-to-face planar contacting relation over a substantial portion of their common area and have their respective lower end margins engaged within the respective channels and maintained by the inclination of said channels in generally outwardly flexed relation out of the plane of said substantial portion of their common area whereby a display placard can be inserted between the upwardly extending portion of said sheets and resiliently gripped thereby.
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