Display unit with snap-in bottom cover

• US 6,419,100 B1
• Filed: 05/23/2001
• Issued: 07/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Original Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Inventors: Gommermann, Bruce, Menz, Albert
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US09/863,627
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• Field of Search: 211/207, 211/208, 211/189, 211/190, 211/191, 211/182, 211/187
• US Class Current: 211/207
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/10 Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands foldable racks in general A47B43/00; dismountable racks in general A47B47/00; assemblies of elements of the same kind, e.g. stackable A47B87/00; publicity panels G09F15/0068

Abstract

A display unit has at least two laterally spaced apart pairs of telescoping uprights, each pair including an inner upright and an outer upright covering at least two adjacent sides of the inner upright, and for each pair a cover configured and dimensioned to be removably mounted on a bottom portion of the inner upright exposed when the pair is in an extended orientation such that the cover conceals the exposed bottom portion of the inner upright.

Claims

1. A display unit comprising:

(A) at least two laterally spaced apart pairs of telescoping members, each said pair of telescoping members including an inner member and an outer member covering at least two adjacent sides of said inner member;

said telescoping members of each pair being of substantially equal height, said outer member being movable between first and second orientations relative to said inner member, in said first orientation both said members of each pair having the tops and bottoms thereof horizontally aligned so that said outer member at least partially conceals said inner member for the entire length of said inner member, and in said second orientation said outer member having the top and bottom thereof higher than the corresponding top and bottom of said inner member so that a bottom portion of said inner member is exposed; and

(B) for each said pair of telescoping members, a cover member configured and dimensioned to be removably mounted on said inner member bottom portion exposed when said pair is in said second orientation such that said cover member at least partially conceals said exposed inner member bottom portion.

2. The unit of claim 1 wherein said outer member is formed of plastic, and said inner member is formed of metal.

3. The unit of claim 1 wherein said inner member has a rectangular cross section.

4. The unit of claim 1 wherein said cover member, when mounted on said inner member bottom portion of one said pair, supports said outer member of said one pair such that said one pair is maintained in said second orientation.

5. The unit of claim 1 wherein said outer member of one said pair includes means for receiving and supporting, cooperatively with said outer member of another said pair, a graphics panel disposed between said outer members.

6. The unit of claim 1 wherein said cover member mounted on one said inner member bottom portion includes means for receiving and supporting, cooperatively with said cover member mounted on another said inner member bottom portion, a bottom graphics panel disposed between said cover members.

7. The unit of claim 1 wherein, when one said pair is in said second orientation, a top portion of said outer member extending above a top portion of said inner member, cooperatively with a top portion of another said outer member, supports a top graphics panel disposed between said outer member top portions.

8. The unit of claim 1 wherein said cover member is configured and dimensioned to be removably mounted on said exposed inner member bottom portion by a snap-fit.

9. A display unit comprising:

(A) at least two laterally spaced apart pairs of telescoping members, each said pair of telescoping members including an inner member of steel having a rectangular cross section and an outer member of plastic covering at least two adjacent sides of said inner member, said telescoping members of each pair being of substantially equal height;

said outer member being movable between first and second orientations relative to said inner member, in said first orientation both said members having the tops and bottoms thereof horizontally aligned so that said outer member at least partially conceals said inner member for the entire length of said inner member, and in said second orientation said outer member having the top and bottom thereof higher than the corresponding top and bottom of said inner member so that a bottom portion of said inner member is exposed; and

(B) for each said pair of telescoping members, a cover member configured and dimensioned to be removably mounted by a snap-fit on said inner member bottom portion exposed when said pair is in said second orientation such that said cover member conceals said exposed inner member bottom portion and supports said outer member of said pair such that said pair is maintained in said second orientation.

10. The unit of claim 9 wherein said outer member of one said pair includes means for receiving and supporting, cooperatively with said outer member of another said pair, a graphics panel disposed between said outer members;

and said cover member mounted on one said inner member bottom portion includes means for receiving and supporting, cooperatively with said cover member mounted on another said inner member bottom portion, a bottom graphics panel disposed between said cover members.

11. The unit of claim 10 wherein, when one said pair is in said second orientation, a top portion of said outer member extending above a top portion of said inner member, cooperatively with a top portion of another said outer member, supports a top graphics panel disposed between said outer member top portions.