Shiftable Display Item Or Item Support Patents (Class 40/508)
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Patent number: 8071186Abstract: A modular rollover mat comprises a plurality of interconnecting mat sections, each having a plurality of connection portions and a retaining rail assembly. Each of the plurality of mat sections comprises a hard top material for providing a smooth and durable rolling surface for computer chairs and the like. The sections engage each other in order to selectively connect separate floor mats together. The retaining rail comprises a raised edging located along the perimeter of the connected floor mat sections.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Inventor: Martha M. Quimby
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Publication number: 20110041369Abstract: The present invention relates to a dynamic display signage system comprising a supporting means, a substantially pliable display panel being secured in a substantially vertical manner on said supporting means, and a primary drive means to allow the upward and downward vertical displacement of said display panel along said supporting means, characterized in that said display panel being provided with a secondary drive means operatively connected at the lower portion thereof, said secondary drive means having an independent motion with respect to said primary drive means to allow a consequent independent motion of said display panel at a pre-selected tension in order to maintain the consistent viewable surface integrity of the said display panel as it is vertically displaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventor: Rafael Q. Uy
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Publication number: 20090019743Abstract: A spring clip clamps tightly behind the shelf C-Channel. An adapter attaches onto the spring clip with a spring catch. An ESL attaches to the front of the adapter with a spring catch. An included tool facilitates both the removal of the ESL from the adapter and the removal of the adapter from the spring clip.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2007Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventor: Long Van Nguyen
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Publication number: 20080263922Abstract: A floor mat or vertical display having a main section and an insert section. The main section includes a shaped space for accommodating the insert section, such that the appearance of the mat or display can be customized by selecting the insert section that is placed into the shaped space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Stanley Ho, Jim Ashley
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Publication number: 20080172915Abstract: A multifunction display system includes a base coupled to an upright support and at least one display element. The upright support includes multiple display item fastening mechanisms including a graphic gripper regions, one or more captured element engagement regions and one or more threaded holes on the side of the upright to which may be attached various types of promotional display elements. Various items such as posters, hooks, rods, shelves and the like may be attached to the upright support anywhere along its length as desired by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: BrandPartnersInventors: David Christopher Howe, Gary Lee Bickford
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Patent number: 6505427Abstract: A display apparatus includes a chassis frame and a housing. The housing defines a storage compartment with an inlet and an outlet for storing a plurality of display envelopes in a substantially parallel configuration. Two endless drive belts are located over corresponding pairs of roller spaced away from each other at opposing ends of the chassis frame. The endless belts each have a silicon-coated bearings face and a corresponding undulating wave spring secured to the chassis frame for urging the bearing faces of the drive belt against the surface of a display envelope while located in the presentation area. The drive belts are operable to draw the display envelope along a predetermined trajectory through the presentation area and into the inlet of the storage compartment.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Media Communication Investment, LimitedInventors: Paul Sterling, Ignace M G J Van Goethem
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Patent number: 6363638Abstract: A signboard device includes a base having two chambers formed in the upper portion for slidably receiving a number of signboard holders. A driving member is disposed around the chambers of the base, and a spring-biased pusher is secured on the driving member and engaged with the signboards to move the signboards and the holders from one chamber to the other. A fence is disposed beside the chamber for engaging with and for urging the pusher to engage with the signboards or the holders. An eccentric stop is disposed for preventing the holders from moving backward.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Inventor: Shun I Liao
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Patent number: 6249999Abstract: Apparatus for turning over individual boards assembled as a stack, preferably for leafing the program boards of a music box (juke box) is provided, in which boards may be rotated around mutually parallel pivot axes lying in a plane, pivoting bilaterally with the edge area of one side on mutually straight profile sections which can be moved synchronously in guides of a chassis by a drive in a straight line in both directions. The boards are provided with projections extending beyond the pivots, at which a stay fixed to the chassis engages in such a way that in each case, a diagonally supported board lying in a viewing window of the chassis is turned over to the opposite side, in which position it is supported at an approximately identical, mirror-image angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: NSM AktiengesellschaftInventors: Heidersberger Börge, Menke Wilhelm
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Patent number: 6226906Abstract: The invention provides a self-powered display unit for displaying at least two consecutively changing images to be viewed by a viewer, the unit comprising a housing, at least one wall portion of the housing being made of an array of linear lenses having a lenticular front face and a flat rear face; at least one displaceable, light-weight, substantially planar indicia carrier disposed inside the housing at a distance from the rear face at most equalling the focal length of the lenses, and a high efficiency, low energy consumption, battery-powered DC drive means for periodically displacing the indicia carrier for a distance at least equalling the distance between two adjacent lenses of the array.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1998Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: M.V.T. Multi Vision Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Itzchak Bar-Yona
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Patent number: 5822901Abstract: A picture display assembly has a hollow base seat, a main frame coupling with the hollow base seat, a transparent plate covering a front face of the main frame, a rear plate covering a rear face of the main frame, a separation plate disposed in a front interior of the main frame, a display chamber defined between the transparent plate and the separation plate, an elastic plate disposed in a rear interior of the main frame, a storage chamber defined between the separation plate and the elastic plate, an upper plate disposed in an upper interior of the main frame, a slit defined between the separation plate and the upper plate, a switch plate disposed on an upper end of the upper plate, a swivel button disposed on an end of the switch plate, a rolling device disposed in a top interior of the main frame, and a roller set disposed in a middle interior of the main frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1997Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Inventor: Yu-Jung Fang
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Patent number: 5697174Abstract: A matrix-shaped display device with a display foil in which display elements are punched out in the form of tabs. The tabs are positioned in rows and columns, and depending on the desired display, can be positioned by a positioning device in front of or behind a strip having a contrasting color. The display elements are oriented alternately upward and downward from one row to the next. Pairs of oppositely oriented display elements support a strip.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Inventor: Gerhard-Gunter Gassmann
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Patent number: 5609252Abstract: A display and storage tray for a stack of photographs, card-like objects or the like, includes a housing, a retaining member, a plurality of slots, at least one guiding member and a lifting member. The housing has an interior that forms a recess that is adapted to hold the stack of photographs. The retaining member is coupled to the housing to retain the stack of photographs within the recess of the housing. A first opening slot is formed between the guiding member and the retaining member, and is adapted to permit the removal of one of the photographs from the stack at a time. A guiding member is coupled to or formed as a part of the housing to guide a photograph back to the bottom of the stack of photographs when one photograph is to be placed back in the stack of photographs in the recess of the housing. A second opening slot is formed between the back of the housing and the a guiding member, and is adapted to permit insertion of one or more photographs to the bottom of the stack of photographs.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1995Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: View 'N Store, Inc.Inventor: Richard C. Koch
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Patent number: 5574519Abstract: A display apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of still images having an audio subsystem for selectively storing and playing back audio information corresponding to at least one displayed still image. According to the invention, the audio subsystem can alternatively be releasably attached, such as to a camera to selectively store audio information, or to an album displaying the images.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1994Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph A. Manico, Cynthia S. Bell
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Patent number: 5226251Abstract: An advertisement frame into which poster advertisements can be inserted is attached to the rear or side of a semitrailer. The advertisement frame includes a unitary main frame portion, a plexiglass protective cover and a roller assembly. The roller assembly is mounted at the bottom of the main frame and constitutes a mechanism for feeding and removing posters into and from the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1991Date of Patent: July 13, 1993Inventor: William J. Webb
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Patent number: 5050326Abstract: A modular mass display replica of a selected prepackaged product is disclosed that includes a plurality of vertically stackable display sections, each section having a four-sided prism configuration and a predetermined height, depth and width functionally related to a preselected number of the packaged products to be displayed in each of the display sections. Each of the sections is rigidly formed of a preselected plastic material, the outer vertical surfaces of each of the sections replicating the typical external visual trade dress of the preselected pre-packaged product for visually portraying or replicating the preselected number of products stacked in contacting relationship based upon the predetermined height, depth and width functionally related to the preselected number of the products to be displayed. The display sections may be attached to each other to permit removable vertical stacking of each of the sections and prohibit relative horizontal movement between adjacent ones of the sections.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1988Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Inventor: Ronald L. Munsey
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Patent number: 4928413Abstract: A display device having a cabinet for mounting first and second display panels, each having a display surface for a message. The panels are mounted in mutually overlying relationship so that one of the display surfaces can be viewed through an opening in the front of the cabinet. Structure is provided for interchanging the first and second panels so that the other of the first and second display surfaces is exposed to be viewed through the front cabinet opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1988Date of Patent: May 29, 1990Assignee: Rapid Mounting & Finishing CompanyInventor: Robert K. Rutchik
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Patent number: 4532579Abstract: An illuminated module connectable with similar modules to form an illuminated sign, especially an address or like location sign, comprises an enclosure for an illumination source having an indicia-bearing surface and a plurality of electrical and mechanical interconnecting means on at least two surfaces to permit the assembly of adjacent modules into different configurations.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1984Date of Patent: July 30, 1985Inventor: Bill Merryman
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Patent number: 4440011Abstract: A casing for holding a key in one of two pivoted positions. The key pivots about an axis extending along one edge thereof when a lock is turned by the user of the key. An indicator may be attached to the key for extension through a small opening in the casing or housing when the key is in one position and for retraction below the level of the casing periphery when the key is in the opposite position. In a second embodiment, a portion of the casing may be pierced along three edges and arranged so that, when the key is in one position, the pierced portion is pushed above the casing periphery and, when the key is pivoted to the second position, the pierced portion is coextensive with or below the casing periphery. In a third embodiment, an indicator may be pivotally fastened in position between halves of the casing for movement (a) above and (b) even with or below the periphery of the casing when the key is pivoted.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1981Date of Patent: April 3, 1984Inventor: Martin Klein
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Patent number: 4282669Abstract: A decorative display, including a shallow box mounted in a picture frame, a first picture being on the front side of the box rear wall, and which is visible from a directly front direction by the line of sight passing through a grate inside the box, the grate consisting of a series of spaced-apart thin strips, one side of the strips having sections of a second picture, so as to form a composite picture when viewed from an angle, and the other side of the strips being likewise illustrated with sections of a third picture for view from an opposite angle, and the display including electric lamps for the picture illumination. A fourth and fifth picture is provided by a slidable grate over the strips.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1980Date of Patent: August 11, 1981Inventor: Jose Rieumont