Erectable display structure with repositionable display shelf sections

• US 4,702,382 A
• Filed: 12/30/1986
• Issued: 10/27/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hoshino Gakki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hoshino Gakki Company Limited
• Inventors: Hoshino, Yoshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Johnson, Blair M.
• Application Number:
  US06/947,812
• Time in Patent Office: 301 Days
• Field of Search: 211/134, 211/186, 211/86, 211/90, 211/94.5, 248/454
• US Class Current: 211/134
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/12 Tiltable stands

Abstract

A display comprises a shelf whose tilt orientation may be adjusted. Attached beneath the shelf is a pair of parallel rails. An annular pipe extends transversely across and beneath the rails. There are clamps on the pipe which include an engagement part that engages an adjacent side of a respective rail. The clamps are movable along the pipe and each is clamped at a location along the pipe in engagement with the rail. The clamp is adjustable to any tilt orientation around the pipe.

Claims

1. A display comprising:

a shelf for being supported at a desired tilt orientation, the shelf having an underside;

a plurality of rails disposed to the underside of the shelf;

each rail including a side surface thereon;

a supporting pipe disposed beneath the shelf and the rails and extending transversely past the rails;

a respective clamp on the pipe for each of the rails of the plurality;

each clamp being movable along the pipe and being clampable to the pipe at any selected location along the pipe;

the clamp including an engagement part shaped for engaging the side surface of the rail for engaging the rail to the engagement part;

the respective clamps and their engagement parts being so disposed that with each rail engaged by a respective engagement part of a respective clamp, the shelf is supported on the rail and the rail is supported to the engagement part which is supported to the clamp and the clamp is supported to pipe, thereby to support the shelf to the pipe.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein the pipe is so shaped and the clamp is so shaped that the clamp may be rotated around the pipe, for adjusting the tilt orientation of the engagement part around the pipe, and with the engagement of the engagement part with the rail, for adjusting the angular orientation of the shelf around the pipe.

3. The display of claim 2, wherein the pipe is circular in cross section.

4. The display of claim 3, wherein the clamp is generally C-shaped for clamping around the pipe, and the C-shaped clamp includes end flanges at the free ends of the C, and means for clamping together the end flanges for clamping the clamp to the pipe at a selected rotative orientation around the pipe.

5. The display of claim 1, wherein the rail side surface runs along the side of the rail and has a first shape adapted to receive and hold the engaging part, the engaging part of the respective clamp has a corresponding side of a second shape so shaped as to be supported by the adjacent, facing side surface of the rail when the engagement part is brought into engagement with the rail.

6. The display of claim 5, wherein the rail side surface is inclined at an acute angle to the underside of the shelf which defines a supporting groove and the engagement part corresponding side is cooperatingly inclined for being received in the supporting groove.

7. The display of claim 5, wherein the side surface of the rail is grooved to define an undercut step and the engagement part corresponding side has a projecting flange which projects over the undercut step for being supported on the step, thereby supporting the engagement part to the rail.

8. The display of claim 5, wherein the rail has opposite lateral sides and both lateral sides thereof are a respective engaging part side surface.

9. The display of claim 1, wherein the rails are parallel.