Display apparatus

• US 5,388,359 A
• Filed: 12/15/1993
• Issued: 02/14/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Acrylic Design & Fabricators Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Acrylic Design & Fabricators Incorporated
• Inventors: DeWitt, Dale
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE
• Application Number:
  US08/166,852
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• Field of Search: 40/606, 40/607, 248/229.3, 248/231.7, 248/316.2, 248/214, 248/231.3, 248/537, 403/383, 403/334, 403/333
• US Class Current: 40/607.14
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/00 Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure

Abstract

A display apparatus comprising a U-shaped member having a bore extending through a bight portion along an axis perpendicular thereto where the bore is characterized by having a polysided cross section adapted to coact with a polysided plug having preselected dimensions so that the plug may fit within the bore. The bore and the plug have tapered complementary sides so that a snug fit is provided. The number of sides may be infinite so as to produce a bore having a circular cross section.

Claims

1. A display apparatus adapted to be mounted on a support means, said display apparatus comprising:

a U-shaped member having a bight portion of a preselected thickness and a pair of side portions extending parallel to one another from opposite ends of said bight portion;

a bore extending through said bight portion from a top side to a bottom side along an axis perpendicular to said bight portion, said bore being characterized by (i) having a polysided cross section, and (ii) having tapered sides so that said bore has a width at said top side larger than a width of said bore at said bottom side;

a threaded aperture in one of said side portions extending there through along an axis generally perpendicular to said one of said side portions;

screw means adjustably positioned in said threaded aperture; and

a display element comprising in part a plug having a polysided cross section and having preselected dimensions so that said plug may fit within said bore,

whereby said U-shaped member may be mounted on top of said support means and secured thereto by said screw means, and

whereby said display element may be positioned in a plurality of preselected angular positions about said bore axis said plug within said bore.

2. Apparatus of claim 1 further characterized by said bore having eight sides and said plug having four sides.

3. Apparatus of claim 1 further characterized by said bore having a circular cross section.

4. Apparatus of claim 3 further characterized by said plug having a circular cross section.

5. Apparatus of claim 1 further characterized by said U-shaped member having said pair of side portions spaced apart a preselected distance so as to facilitate said member being mounted on said support means with said pair of side portions being disposed on opposite sides of said support means.

6. Apparatus of claim 1 further characterized by the number of sides of said bore being twice the number of sides of said plug.

7. Apparatus of claim 1 further characterized by the polysided plug having a preselected taper adapted to facilitate a snug fit of said plug within the tapered sides of said bore.