Panel display with a stretchable structure
OwnerJean-Luc Tafforeauinventor
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Abstract
A panel display having a stretchable structure made of articulated, tubular elements collapsible together with an internal elastic cord. The elements are articulated on a central assembling support for mounting. Some relatively rigid elements are fixed on the support while obliquely diverging away from it so as to form feet with a ground footprint shaped as a regular polygon. Other elements form relatively flexible bows each of which will respectively support at its free end a suspendible panel in its middle.
Claims18
A panel display comprising a stretchable structure made of articulated, tubular elements collapsible together with an internal elastic cord, wherein said elements are articulated on a central assembling support, said elements comprising:
- first relatively rigid elements fixed to said central assembling support while obliquely diverging away from said support so as to form a stable foot base with transverse bars adapted to receive a suspendible panel, said bars being attached to said rigid elements at locations on the bars intermediate ends of the bars and forming a regular polygon, and
- second elements forming relatively flexible bows, each of which bows is individually adapted to respectively support at each free end a suspendible panel in the middle of an edge of such panel so that each bow will elastically flex by virtue of tension applied thereto individually by a single one of the panels.
A display according to claim, wherein said central support includes a main assembling piece shaped as a cylindrical barrel with longitudinal cells for mounting said first relatively rigid elements therein by means of bent connections coupled by keying, and wherein said main assembling piece furthermore includes a central cell for receiving a vertical axial pole, to be fixed at one of its ends by being inserted into said main assembling piece and at its other end into a secondary assembling piece shaped as a cylindrical barrel with cells for mounting bows, whereas each bow is adapted to directly engage into a cell of said secondary assembling piece.
A panel display assembly including panels in combination therewith comprising:
- a first and a second series of tubular lengthwise elements each having an elastically stretchable cord extending therethrough for a collapsible connection by butt engagement with another of said elements in same series,
- wherein the elements in said first series are relatively rigid elements,
- and said elements in said second series are relatively flexible,
- and further comprising a central assembling member
- having lower bores for a collapsible connection by butt engagement with at least three legs each made of at least one rigid element in said first series whereby each said leg extends in a direction obliquely diverging away with respect to a vertical axis of said central member down to respective corners of a regular supporting polygon for said assembly,
- and upper bores for a collapsible connection by butt engagement for bows of said flexible elements in said second series each up to an upper end for hanging thereto a respective one of at least three panels to be displayed,
- said panels then extending upright due to each said bow flexibly bending under the weight of the panel carried thereby.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.