DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LIKE

• US 3,774,332 A
• Filed: 03/23/1971
• Issued: 11/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marshall C. Schneider
• Original Assignee: Marshall C. Schneider
• Inventors: Schneider, Marshall C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US05/127,279
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 40/138,125H,159,128,1D,156,152,152.1 46/24
• US Class Current: 40/720
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/12 Frames therefor

Abstract

A hollow transparent body defined by a plurality of angularly related interconnected transparent panels. The panels form two separate U-shaped sections which slidably interlock about a display item or items for viewing through the transparent panels. The formed unit is adapted to mount on a stand with a pair of opposed corners vertically oriented, whereby a full viewing of all faces of the unit can be effected by a rotation thereof.

Claims

1. A display device for photographs and the like comprising in combination a hollow, hexahedron-shaped device 30 having a plurality of transparent walls and a slightly smaller similar shaped support 40 spaced within said device to display photographs and the like adjacent the interior surface of said transparent walls;

said device comprising two slidably engageable detachable U-shaped sections (32);

each section including three walls (36), (32), (34) permanently attached contiguously and at right angles and having edge bevelling so that said two sections when facing each other at a 90* rotation slide together to form the assembled device with visually indistinguisable joints.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein each section has the exposed edges of the associated walls beveled at approximately 45* to mate with the exposed edges on the second section.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein all of the walls are transparent.

4. The device of claim 3 including a mounting stem engaged with one section at one end corner defined between a pair of panels thereof, said stem projecting outwardly from said corner.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein said stem comprises an elongated flexible member having the remote end fixed to a stable base whereby an oscillating movement of the display unit can be effected.

6. The device of claim 5 including a multiple duplicate flexible member supported units associated with a single base.

7. The device of claim 4 wherein said stem comprises a short rigid stub, a stable base, said base rotatably receiving said stub for a rotational adjustment of said unit.

8. The device of claim 7 wherein said stem includes a seat defined at the panel end thereof, said seat receiving a corner of the unit.

9. The device of claim 4 wherein said stem comprises a vertically elongated pedestal, said pedestal having an angular seat defined in the upper end thereof, said seat receiving said unit.

10. The device of claim 4 wherein said stem engages an overhead support for a suspension of the display unit therefrom.

11. The device of claim 10 wherein said overhead support comprises an elevated portion of a support member, said support member extending about said display unit and therebelow, and a stable base associated with said support member.

12. The device of claim 11 wherein said stem is rotatably engaged with said overhead support.

13. The device of claim 3 including a generally arcuate support member encircling said display unit and engaged with a pair of opposed corners thereof to suspend said display unit therebetween.