US 5,687,859 AGranted

Non-racking panel display device

AssigneeChannel-Kor Systems Inc.

InventorMelvin M. Miller

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Abstract

This invention is concerned with a panel device which is useful in the display and furniture arts, the panel device is formed from a plurality of panels which are securely locked into a three axis relationship with each other, the vertical edges of the individual panels incorporate undercut grooves, the vertical edges of the individual panels are provided with opposing guide pins which generally retain the panels in relation to each other, the individual panels are further provided with opposing locking lugs and a biased lock which retain the panels in relation to each other, the panel device may be readily converted from a set up to a flat stance one on each other for storage, in one embodiment at least the vertical edges of the individual display panels are provided with undercut H shaped channels that are secured in grooves that are routed into the edges of the panels, these H shaped channels further interact with the guide pins, locking lugs and the biased lock.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A panel display device having a plurality of vertical display panels, with one or more pairs of adjacent vertical panels being attached to each other by a non-racking attachment system which comprises;

a. at least two guide pins which are integral with the vertical edge of one or more adjacent panels said guide pins guiding said adjacent panels into an abutting relationship with each other;
b. means for receiving said guide pins which are integral with the vertical edge of the display panel which is opposite said guide pins;
c. at least two male locking lugs which are located on the vertical edge of one or more display panels approximate the vertical terminal ends thereof;
d. female apertures which are located on the vertical edge of the display panel opposite said male locking lugs and approximate the vertical terminal ends thereof;
and
e. one of said vertical terminal edges having a resilient biased lock for securing said male locking lugs into said female apertures so that adjacent vertical panels may not move relative to each other without releasing the lock.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/399,236Filed 6 Mar 1995
Granted: 18 Nov 1997
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

E04B 2/7425
With separate framed panels without intermediary support posts: details of connection of panels
G09F 15/0068
Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like: modular articulated structures, e.g. stands, and…
E04B 1/6141
With protrusions on the one frontal surface co-operating with recesses in the other frontal surface: the connection made by an additional locking key
E04B
General building constructions