Front-mount grid display having trim strips and hook and loop

• US 5,172,504 A
• Filed: 02/08/1991
• Issued: 12/22/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marketplace Media Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Grid-Graphics Services Corporation
• Inventors: Schoeppe, H. Jay II, De Maat, H. Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GARDNER, JAMES
• Application Number:
  US07/652,800
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 40/152, 40/611, 40/152.1, 40/154, 40/155, 40/156, 40/617, 40/618, 40/620, 40/308, 40/649, 40/308, 40/158.1, 40/574, 40/575, 211/40, 211/71, 211/88, 403/406.1, 403/408.1, 403/409.1, 403/405.1, 403/295, 403/381, 248/488, 248/220.3, 248/224.1, 248/224.2, 248/205.2, 49/465, 160/354, 160/369, 312/185, 24/306, 52/202, 52/203, 52/764, 52/774-776, 52/716, 52/717.1, 52/DIG. 13
• US Class Current: 40/605
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0068 Modular articulated structures, e.g. stands, and articulation means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2007/1847 Brackets to grip the sign board
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2007/1891 modular
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 52/13 Hook and loop type fastener

Abstract

An improved front-mount grid display having preassembled display panels with trim strips adhered to the edges of the display panel boards. The trim strips protect the edges of the board, and have lips overlying the perimeters of the front faces of the boards to present a neat and finished appearance. The trim strips are adhered to the board edges by double-sided adhesive tape. The trip strips may have rear flanges overlying the perimeter of the rear faces of the board, and the display panels may include transparent panes. Also disclosed is a grid display construction in which two grid displays are arranged back-to-back with one or more sign panels extending outwardly from the grid displays and having portions entrapped and supported between the grid displays.

Claims

1. A front-mount grid display comprising:

a grid frame including a plurality of frame members joined in assembled relationship to define a plurality of grid openings, each frame member having a rearward base disposed generally in a plane defining the rear of the grid display and a forwardly extending leg;

a plurality of frame connectors disposed at the intersections and junctures of said frame members having means for engaging the bases of adjacent frame members and holding said frame members in assembled relationship, each of said frame connectors having a forwardly directed pad surface extending inwardly beyond said bases into the grid opening defined by said adjacent frame members;

a plurality of hook or loop fabric fastener elements each adhered to one of said frame connector pad surfaces; and

a plurality of preassembled display panels, each of said display panels removably carried in one of said grid openings, each of said display panels including;

a board having spaced apart front and rear faces and peripheral edges,

a plurality of trim strips, each of said trim strips adhered to one of said board edges and including an outer leg extending generally parallel to said board edge and a lip extending inwardly from the forward edge of said outer leg and overlying the perimeter of the front face of said board, said trim strips lying adjacent the forwardly extending legs of said frame members defining the grid opening in which the display panel is installed, and

a plurality of hook or loop fabric fastener elements each adhered to the rear of the display panel disposed in coengagement with one of said hook or loop fabric fastener elements on a frame connector pad surface to releasably hold the display panel within a grid opening.

2. The grid display of claim 1 wherein said trim strips each further comprise a flange extending inwardly from the rear edge of said outer leg and overlying the perimeter of the rear face of said board.

3. The grid display of claim 2 wherein said display panels further include a transparent pane coextensively overlying the front face of said board and wherein said lips overlie the perimeter of the front face of the pane.

4. The grid display of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of lengths of double-sided adhesive tape disposed between said board edges and said trim strip outer legs.