Abstract: A combined display and storage unit including a cubical base with four side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, each surrounded and supported by a framework and defining an enclosed storage space. One of the side walls is hinged to provide access to the storage space. Pieces may be supported and displayed on the outer surfaces of the four side walls, preferably by constructing the side walls of slatwall material. The framework surrounding the top wall provides a square recess for alternatively receiving a transparent display case, a wire book support and a merchandise tray. The base is preferably mounted on casters for free movement.

Abstract: A display unit for media such as books, audio and video cassettes, etc. includes a rotating tower-type array of shelves and a supporting framework which is mountable to a rigid, vertically oriented panel, such as the end panel of a bookcase. The rotatable tower is mounted between the free ends of a pair of horizontal support arms which are fixedly supported at their other ends by a vertical column and a cross-arm which extends across and is fixedly attached at its mid-point to the upper end of the vertical column. A pair of U-shaped members are mounted to opposite ends of the cross-arm and are rotatable with respect thereto about the horizontal, longitudinal axis of the cross-arm. The unit is mounted to the panel by the U-shaped members passing around the side edges of the panel so that one of the legs of each member contacts the rear side of the panel while the remainder of the unit rests against the front side.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotatable tower for holding and displaying books, video cassettes, and like articles on a plurality of square shelves which extend in horizontal planes and are supported in vertically spaced relation to one another by a plurality of vertically extending rods, groups of which are interconnected into L-shaped configurations by L-shaped, horizontally extending rods. The shelves include an elongated slot formed from the midpoint of each edge inwardly towards the shelves' geometric center, and two laterally spaced notches formed in each edge to one side of the slot. Each edge of the shelves includes a downwardly extending flange along their entire lengths and an upwardly extending flange along a portion of the length to the opposite side of the slot in which the notches are formed. Each L-shaped group of vertically extending rods is comprised of four rods, two rods forming each leg of the L.

Abstract: Apparatus for supporting rolls of overlay and base tapes, and guiding the tapes to pressure rollers after the base tape passes through a computer printer to produce an endless web of protected labels. The pressure rollers may be rotated either manually or by an electric motor. Between the printer outlet and the pressure rollers, the base tape passes through a bail mechanism which is rotationally moveable by the relative tension and slack in the base tape to operate a microswitch in the motor circuit. Both the label-making apparatus and the printer rest upon a planar base member to which the apparatus is fixedly attached.

Abstract: A book support of the clip-on type including a label holder having at least one transparent label viewing surface which may releasably engage to the front wall of the book support in covering, spaced relation thereto. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the label holder includes two planar label viewing surfaces which lie in orthogonally oriented planes. When attached to the front wall of the book support, the label holder and front wall form a substantially triangular transverse cross-section. A label having shelf-identifying indicia printed thereon may be removably inserted between the label holder and the front wall of the book support for viewing through the label holder viewing surfaces. The indicia is printed twice in symmetrical arrangement on the label such that the indicia appearing through the first label viewing surface is the same indicia that appears through the second label viewing surface. As such, the shelf-identifying indicia is displayed about a large viewing angle of at least 180.