Push button apparatus for wall hangings and calendars
OwnerGuy B. Wrightinventor
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Abstract
A housing is provided which attaches to a wall and includes mechanisms for releasable attachment to a wall hanging such as a calendar. The housing may have a decorative facade and includes a depressible button which operates through a spring biased J-shaped rod or flexible strips to move a clasp member out of an elongated slot in the bottom of the housing. The slot accommodates an edge portion of a wall hanging. Securement occurs when the button is released and the spring bias or inherent flexibility of the strip member frictionally engage the wall hanging edge. Alternatively, the wall hanging edge may include an engagement aperture. In such case, the clasp member will pass through the aperture and suspend the wall hanging in the housing slot.
Claims11
An apparatus for holding wall hangings comprising:
- a housing having a front facade and having a slot for receiving a predetermined part of a wall hanging;
- a clasp means in said housing for releasably engaging said predetermined part in said slot, said clasp means including an activating button accessible from said front facade and including a clasp member that extends into said slot for releasable engagement with said wall hanging part;
- said clasp means also including an actuating means for moving said clasp member in response to movement of said activating button;
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- said actuating means being selected from the group consisting of a J-shaped rod, a flexible E-strip, an L-shaped flex member and a flexible panel.
A housing for releasably holding a wall hanging, said housing having a front facade with a button recess and a back facade circumscribed by a top end which merges into opposing side walls and a bottom end, a slot in said housing for receiving a predetermined part of a wall hanging and a clasp means connected to said housing for releasably engaging said predetermined part;
- said housing including a wall attachment means for securement to a wall or other vertical structure;
- said clasp means including an activating button which is interconnected to a clasp member whereby selected movements of said activating button causes movement of said clasp member into said slot to a closed position and out of said slot to an open position, said button extending into said button recess;
- said activating button and clasp member being interconnected by an actuating means;
- and,
- said actuating means including a biasing means for maintaining said clasp member in a normally closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.