DISPLAY RACK WITH ANNULAR MOUNTING RING

• US 3,695,457 A
• Filed: 06/15/1970
• Issued: 10/03/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Capitol Hardware Manufacturing Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Maurice Cohen
• Inventors: Cohen, Maurice
• Primary Examiner(s): Byers, Jr., Nile C.
• Application Number:
  US05/048,874
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• Field of Search: 211/177,70,24,178 108/159 248/188.7 287/2
• US Class Current: 211/189
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/13 made of tubes or wire assemblies of elements of the same kind, e.g. stackable, A47B87/00

Abstract

A rack for displaying articles thereon wherein a plurality of leg units are removably interconnected and an annular ring is removably mounted on adjustable arms of said leg units at the upper ends thereof, the adjustable arms providing for mounting of different diameter rings thereon, and the entire rack being easily assembled for displaying said articles or disassembled for packaging and shipping in a knocked-down position.

Claims

1. In a display rack, a plurality of substantially upright leg units, means for interconnecting said leg units including a center post having a plurality of stub shafts joined to the upper and lower ends thereof, said leg units having arms located at the uppermost and adjacent the lowermost ends thereof, said stub shafts being receivable in the arms formed as part of said leg units at the uppermost end and in the arms located at the lower end thereof, an adjustable hook element located on each of said arms, an annular ring removably mounted on said hook elements, said hook elements being adjustable radially to compensate for the diameter of said annular ring, said leg units with the arms joined thereto being disconnectable and said ring being removably mounted on said hook elements, whereby said leg units including said arms and said ring are located in a knocked-down position when the display rack is packaged for shipping or storing, and means for removably securing said arms to said stub shafts to provide for setting up said leg units in the substantially upright position and thereafter for mounting said ring on said hook elements.

2. In a display rack, a plurality of substantially upright leg units, means for interconnecting said leg units including a center post having a plurality of stub shafts fixed to the upper end thereof, said leg units having an arm located at the uppermost end thereof, each of said stub shafts extending into the inner end of an arm for interconnecting said leg units to said center post at the upper end thereof, an adjustable hook element located on each of said arms, and an annular ring Removably mounted on said hook elements, said hook elements being adjustable radially to compensate for the diameter of said annular ring.

3. In a display rack as set forth in claim 2, a plurality of stub shafts joined to the lower end of said post, and an arm joined to each of said leg units at the lower end thereof and fixed to a stub shaft for anchoring the lower ends of said leg units to said post.

4. In a display rack as set forth in claim 3, a fastening element extending through each of said stub shafts for securement of said stub shafts to said vertical post, said stub shafts being frictionally received in said upper and lower arms, and a fastening member extending through each of said arms and into the stub shaft received therein for securely mounting each arm on a stub shaft.

5. In a display rack as set forth in claim 2, each of said arms including an outer member and an inner member telescopically received in said outer member, said outer members being removably fixed to said upper shafts on said center post and each of said inner members having a hook element joined to the outer end thereof, and means for positively adjusting said inner members with respect to said outer members to locate the hook elements thereon in the holes in said ring, thereby providing for mounting of different diameter rings on said hook elements.

6. In a display rack as set forth in claim 5, said adjusting means including a plurality of openings located in spaced relation in said outer arm members and a spring urged plunger projecting through an opening in each of said inner arm members and being selectively registrable with an opening in an outer arm member to interlock said inner arm members in the desired position.

7. A display rack, comprising a plurality of substantially upright leg units, each of which has an arm located at the uppermost end thereof, each of said arms including an outer member having a square cross-sectional configuration and an inner member of similar cross section telescopically received in said outer member, two of said units having a common arm to which oppositely directed cylindrically formed stub shafts are fixed intermediate the ends thereof, the outer member of each arm of the other of said leg units being receivable on a stub shaft, the dimension of said square-shaped outer arm members providing for frictional engagement of the stub shafts within said outer members, wherein said leg units are disposed in a unitary assembly, a hook element fixed to the inner member of each arm and extending outwardly and upwardly in an inclined direction with respect thereto, and an annular ring having a plurality of holes formed therein for receiving said hook elements so as to securely mount said ring on said hook elements, the axis of each hole in said ring being inclined to the vertical, thereby providing for easy insertion of said hook elements in said holes, and means for radially adjusting said inner members with respect to said outer members to locate the hook elements thereon in the holes in said ring, thereby providing for mounting of different diameter rings on said hook elements.

8. A display rack as set forth in claim 7, a bolt extending through said oppositely directed stub shafts and through the common arm on which said stub shafts are mounted for fixing said stub shafts on said common arm.