Interlocking slide-pocket for roll-up signs

A sign assembly, comprising:

• a flexible sheet of material in the form of a sign having a display surface and an opposing bracing surface;
• a first batten having terminal ends for engaging the flexible sheet and fixed along a first bracing axis of the bracing surface;
• a second batten having terminal ends and secured to the first batten such that the second batten can be oriented along a second bracing axis of the bracing surface;
• at least one bracing sleeve having a base portion and cover portion, said base portion of the sleeve being affixed to the bracing surface at a location along one of said first and second bracing axes;
• (i) the base portion including a batten recess for receiving a one of said batten terminal ends, the batten recess being defined by walls disposed along longitudinal sides of said base portion in opposing relation and extending outwardly from said base portion, at least one wall defining a track and including an aperture proximate an end thereof;
• (ii) the cover portion being in sliding engagement with the walls between a first position wherein the batten recess is exposed and a second interlocked position wherein the batten recess is enclosed by the cover portion, said cover portion including at least one flexible arm extending from the cover portion and being biased outwardly into position within said base portion track, the flexible arm including a tab for engaging said aperture when said cover portion is in said second position;
• whereby the cover portion is releasably interlocked in the second position by the seating of the tab within the aperture and released by compressing the tab of the flexible arm inwardly to unseat the tab from the aperture to permit the cover portion to slide from the second position to the first position to insert the batten end in the batten recess of the base portion.