US 6,178,678 B2Granted

Menu board graphics display

AssigneeMiller/Zell, Inc.

InventorDavid C F Stoddard

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Abstract

A menu board offering quick and easy changes thereto by a user is disclosed. The menu board comprises plural channels defined by T-shaped flanges, and which are sized to slidably receive and retain a plurality of inserts in the channels thereof in an operative or display position. The inserts are sized to be readily removed and replaced on the menu board by being lifted within the respective channels and to be freed therefrom, such that the user can selectively replace an insert with new or updated sales information graphics, as desired, without disturbing an adjacent insert or inserts in the menu board. The sales information graphic is not limited to the size of the channels on the menu board, but may transversely span any desired number of channels, and be of various lengths to provide relatively large non-linear graphic display areas.

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Dependent claims

A menu board for advertising graphic and sales information comprising:

a planar back panel having a plurality of horizontally dispose channels defined by a plurality of off-set members extending perpendicular to said planar back panel, wherein each of said off-set members are T-shaped and each has a spaced pair of opposed legs extending parallel to said planar back panel;
filler blocks sized for sliding engagement within at least one of said channels between said back panel and said pair of opposed legs, said filler blocks being received vertically behind a first said opposed leg of a first off-set member and a second said opposed leg of an adjacent second off-set member and movable to a raised position free from said second opposed leg of said second off-set member for ease of removal from said channel;
at least one graphic display panel adapted to be releasibly mountable on said filler blocks;
and
means for mounting said at least one graphic display panel on said filler blocks to enable said at least graphic display panel to be readily mounted and replaced on said menu board.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.