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US 6,553,724 B1Granted
Panel and trade show booth made therefrom
OwnerRobert A. Biglerinventor
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Abstract
A panel is provided, which is a building block, for a trade show booth. Each panel includes a support structure having rails secured to the edges. Each rail has magnetic fastening strips and metal guidance blades disposed in the lengthwise extending slots, which engage with similar structures in other panels or other rails. Separate rails have mutually engageable lobes and lobe-engaging openings to allow a plurality of panels to be placed in any trade show booth configuration.
Claims15
A panel comprising:
- a widthwise and lengthwise extending support structure;
- a rail secured lengthwise to the support structure, the rail having a lengthwise extending slot provided therein;
- a magnetic fastening strip secured in the lengthwise extending slot;
- and
- a guidance blade secured in the lengthwise extending slot and extending widthwise therefrom adjacent to the fastening strip and of a material fastenable by magnetic attraction to the magnetic fastening strip, the guidance blade has a length extend extending lengthwise in the lengthwise extending slot and is provided with an edge having a radiused corner running into a 45-degree edge.
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A booth comprising:
- a plurality of widthwise and lengthwise extending support structures;
- a plurality of rails secured lengthwise to the plurality of support structures, the plurality of rails each having a lengthwise extending slot provided therein;
- a plurality of fastening strips disposed in the lengthwise extending slots;
- and
- a plurality of guidance blades disposed in the lengthwise extending slots adjacent to the fastening strip and of a material fastenable to the fastening strip, the plurality of guidance blades for guiding the plurality of support structures into engagement to fasten the plurality of support structures together to form the booth, the plurality of guidance blades extend lengthwise in the lengthwise extending slot and are provided with edges having a radiused corners running into 45-degree edges for causing the plurality of support structures to be guided into proper alignment when moved together.
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A booth comprising:
- a plurality of panels containing magnetic fasteners and guidance blades in the edges thereof whereby panels can be assembled and disassembled without tools by sliding the guidance blades into and out of abutting engagement and holding the plurality of panels together by magnetic attraction;
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- a plurality of rails containing magnetic fasteners and guidance blades in the edges thereof whereby rails can be assembled to panels and disassembled from panels without tools by sliding the guidance blades into and out of engagement, the plurality of rails having lobes and lobe-engagement openings whereby rails can be assembled to and disassembled from rails without tools by sliding the lobes of one of the plurality of rails into and out of the lobe-engagement openings of another of the plurality of rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.