DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 3,718,260 A
• Filed: 01/29/1971
• Issued: 02/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sandra Sharp
• Original Assignee: Sandra Sharp
• Inventors: Sharp, Sandra
• Primary Examiner(s): Byers, Jr., Nile C.
• Application Number:
  US05/110,913
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: 211/13,86,87 248/DIG.3
• US Class Current: 211/85.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/02 for jewellery, dentures, watches, eye-glasses, lenses, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/908 Simulation of diverse device

Abstract

A display device particularly suitable for holding and retaining personal articles of clothing and jewelry. The display device permits the easy selection of these articles while a person is dressing. The device consists of a silhouette or board or flat surface having an image of a part of an animal figure, such as a human figure, and includes a plurality of article removing holders, such as hooks, pegs and the like, located preferably at the ear, hand, neck, wrist and waist of the figure so as to receive personal articles customarily worn on these portions of the body. Each peg may hold a multiplicity of articles, such as several earrings, up to five or six chains, bracelets and the like.

Claims

1. A display board for holding personal articles such as jewelry and the like comprising;

a planar support member having the profile of a standing woman'"'"''"'"'s figure formed on the surface thereof, said figure showing the full front profile of the body of the figure and including at least one wrist and forearm disposed horizontally above the waist of the body, a first plurality of spaced-apart article-holding hooks disposed substantially horizontally across the neck of the figure for supporting necklaces and the like, a second plurality of spaced-apart article-holding hooks disposed along said at least one horizontal wrist and forearm for supporting wristwatches and bracelets, a third plurality Of spaced-apart article-holding hooks disposed substantially horizontally along the waist portion of said figure for supporting belts, a further plurality of article-holding hooks disposed on the fingers and ear of said figure for supporting rings and earrings respectively, and an eye hook disposed in said support member at the top edge thereof for supporting said support member in a vertical position.