Abstract: An enclosed frame with a loosely stretched flexible mesh material across the frame opening for attaching earrings thereto.

Abstract: A marker caddy for holding and displaying a plurality of markers having different cap designs which may be at both ends of the marker, different barrel diameters and heights including a base mounted on wheels, upright support members attached to said base and a frame pivotally mounted at the upper end of the support members. A marker holder is supported within the frame and comprises a plurality of rows of marker trays extending across the width of the holder and extending in a stair-step configuration from the bottom to the top of the holder. The marker is adjustably mounted to said holder so as to be positionable at any selected angle. Each tray includes a plurality of wells at the front of the tray and a plurality of first arcuate indentations at the rear of the tray mating with said wells.

Abstract: A device [9] for supporting the end of a firewood stack and the like including a first pair of elongated members [14,15] fixed together by a first cross piece [16] and fixed to a base [19] by a hinge [17] with a third elongated member [27] extending between and fixed to the first cross piece and one end of the base.

Abstract: A stacking, pivoting, wall storage unit with removable storage containers, shelves, and the like comprising a vertical mounting member adapted for mounting to a wall or the like. A vertical connecting member is hingedly carried by the mounting member for pivoting about a vertical axis through at least 90.degree.. The connecting member includes a plurality of vertically disposed shear trap channels each having a pair of opposed planar members with the hook portion of hook and loop fastening material on inward facing surfaces. The planar members are adapted to releasably receive the loop portion of hook and loop fastening material therebetween and maintain it in shear. A plurality of stacking members each having a vertical fin member extending therefrom and having the loop portion of hook and loop fastening material on parallel outward facing surfaces of the outer edge thereof are provided for releasable attachment to the vertical connecting member by fastening the fins in the shear trap channels.

Abstract: A desk top card file includes an elongate one piece base having an arcuate longitudinal profile. File cards are releasably carried by a pair of parallel longitudinal rails attached to the base. An end plate is hinged to each end of the base. The end plates are movable from a substantially parallel vertical orientation where they compact a stack of cards when the card file is not in use, to an open position, rendering the individual cards accessible for selection and reading. The hinges carry a resilient friction restraint which maintains each end plate at a selected angle. Variable friction forces determined by the profile of cam surfaces of the end plates minimize wear of the friction restraint while maintaining adequate retention forces on the card stack. The file includes a pivotable stand which is mounted to the underside of the base at one end and is opened to tilt the file toward the user.

Abstract: A product dispensing apparatus includes a support having a tray system supported thereon and the tray system includes front and rear walls interconnected by side walls and having a plurality of adjustable partitions extending between the front and rear walls to produce side-by-side trays. A guide member is located in each tray and slidably supports a pusher member which is biased toward the front wall. The support defines a stop to move all of the pusher members toward the rear wall when the tray system is moved from a product dispensing position to a product restocking position on the support.

Abstract: For supporting a variety of brochures, magazines, catalogs and other "soft" reading material as well as hard-cover books in an upright position, this bookrack may be readily assembled by an unskilled person, without tools or additional fastening hardware, from only two configurations of economically manufactured parts: molded plastic partitions and base/back panels which can be readily extended in multiples by integral edge fastenings as well as individually shortened at scored breakoff lines to obtain a desired total length to permit retrofitting onto existing bookshelves. Keystone-shaped tabs on the partitions interlock with keyed slots in the panels to fasten the panels and partitions together, retained by a simple integral detent system. Panels and partitions are made as thin as practically possible to achieve high space efficiency, and all fastenings are concealed to eliminate obstructions that could interfere with reading material being accommodated in the bookrack.

Abstract: A hat rack for effectively holding a hat in a manner and position simulative of the position that the hat would take when placed on a person's head and maintaining the shape of the hat without leaving any marks on the hat. The device includes a generally frustoconical hat form which is inserted into the hat with the form being generally oval shaped in plan configuration for shaping the hat. The device also includes a hanger bracket and adjustable arms forming a supporting linkage assembly to enable the hat to be supported from various supporting structures including but not limited to a vertical wall surface or the like, a horizontal desk or tabletop surface, the top edge of a seatback such as in a vehicle, on a dashboard of a vehicle, or in any other desired location with the adjustment features enabling the hat to be positioned generally in the attitude that the hat would assume when placed on a person's head.

Abstract: A rack for displaying samples of flooring constructed of heavy gauge wires to present upright members, dividers secured to the uprights one above another in parallel spaced relation, side supports in vertical planes between the dividers and defining therewith slots into which can be slipped the upper and lower spans of a rectangular sample folded into U-shape.

Abstract: An organizer for the trunk of an automobile in the form of a tray. The tray includes a top surface integral with a substantially continuous side wall. The side wall is substantially coextensive with the top surface of the tray about the perimeter thereof. The side wall has a bottom edge adapted to rest upon a supporting surface. The side wall is dimensioned such that the top surface of the tray is disposed in spaced parallel relation to the supporting surface. The top surface of the tray has a plurality of openings each leading to a compartment. The compartments are each adapted to receive an article for maintaining an automobile. The tray is formed such that the compartments are disposed inwardly of the substantially continuous side wall substantially entirely beneath the top surface. In addition, the tray can be selectively maintained in a desired position on the supporting surface.

Abstract: An awning assembly comprising an awning canopy rolled onto a roller spindle has two end caps which provide bearing support for the roller spindle and serve as hinge members which are pivotally attached to support brackets mounted on a supporting surface. Each end cap is provided with at least one bore extending parallel to the axis of the roller spindle and/or at least one bore extending laterally in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the roller spindle for the reception of a pivot pin. Each support bracket is provided with a pivot pin aperture which is capable of receiving the pivot pin, to thereby provide a hinged connection between the end cap and the support bracket. This enables a first part of the awning assembly to be raised and held in position by means of a hinged connection before a second part of the awning assembly is raised into its final position by rotating the awning assembly about the hinged connection.

Abstract: A foldable display rack comprises two side chain members each provided with a plurality of chain members each having a link hole, the chain members being spaced from one another in a first direction, and a plurality of transverse rod-like members each passing through one hole of one link of one of the chain members and one hole of one link of the other of the chain members and spaced from one another in a second direction which is transverse to the first direction, the links of the chain members are formed so that they are connected with one another movably so as to allow folding of the chain members and therefore folding of the display rack, and at the same time the chain links allow passing the rod-like members therethrough and therefore support the rod-like members.

Abstract: A shelf plate is adapted for use with an office machine having an insertion slot for receiving the plate. The plate is formed of a synthetic resin in a generally planar surface and includes integrally formed, laterally offset leaf spring portions that extend from each side of the plate in a direction opposite to that in which the plate is normally inserted into the office machine. Each of the leaf spring portions includes on its top surface a groove defined by a first and a second stepped portion that is adapted to engage locking edges on the insertion slot in the framework of the office machine. The inherent elasticity of the leaf spring portions biases the groove into engagement with the locking edge. A force may be exerted on the extending free ends of the leaf spring portions to disengage the groove from the locking edge for removal of the shelf plate from the office machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement for a product or display stand (1) with holders (6) arranged above one another and capable of being folded one after the other viewed from above, which holders for the purpose of their ability to be folded are in engagement in an articulated and detachable fashion on one rear side with a frame component. This comprises two vertically arranged uprights (3, 4) preferably situated at the rear corners of the holders. Each upright (3, 4) has a form such that it encloses the rear corners of the respective holder (6). Projections (7) are arranged preferably at identical mutual distances along the aforementioned uprights (3, 4). Every one of these is so arranged as to be in engagement with at least one part of a corresponding contact surface (8) on each holder (6). The contact surface (8) is bounded by a rear stop (9) and a front stop (10) acting against the aforementioned projections (7).

Abstract: A book rack of selective capacity includes end members and a base extending longitudinally between the end members, the base having an undulate configuration including undular support members and an undular basal member, the undulations being in a flexible conformable material such that the length of the base may be expanded and contracted selectively into conformance with a particular longitudinal length by bending of the undulations, thereby providing a longitudinal spacing between the end members corresponding to the desired capacity of the book rack.

Abstract: Each web-forming unit is configured to snap into an identical adjacent unit so that a plurality thereof form a web which flexes at the joints. Each unit has an article-supporting arm thereon upon which a long, narrow item may be hung and displayed. The web is mounted on rotatable drums so that the web may be advanced around the drums to successively bring forward articles supported on the arms.

Abstract: An apparatus for suspending articles from a surface is disclosed having a head portion and three arm members extending outwardly from one side of the head portion, arranged at an angle with respect to the head portion and having a triangular configuration.An article to be suspended is hung from the first arm member and extends between the second and third arm members which restrict the articles transverse movement. Both the first and third arm members are bent near their distal ends to restrict the articles movement in a longitudinal direction with respect to the arm members. The first arm member is also provided with an extension beyond the second and third arm members to allow for easy replacement of an article.

Abstract: A rack for storing food mixer attachments comprising a housing adapted to be connected to the underside of a kitchen cabinet and having a plurality of cylindrical posts extending downwardly therefrom. A cylindrical pin is attached to the post intermediate the ends thereof. An annular washer is disposed around the post and is located between the pin and the housing. A helical compression spring is disposed around the post and has one end thereof in abutment with the housing and the other end thereof in abutment with the annular washer for biasing the annular washer toward the pin. Attachements to food mixers of a certain type can then be placed on the posts and locked on by the pin, such attachments being of a type having a circular opening in one end thereof with a slot going down one side of the circular opening and leading to one side of a second slot which is formed in an arc around the axis of the circular opening. The other end of the second slot has a notch therein.

Abstract: A tray stand includes a vertical column (1, 12) and a plurality of circular trays (3, 14), rotatably carried by the column and situated one above the other. Each such tray includes a plurality of substantially circle sector-shaped sections (4, 22), which are carried by a common holder or hub (5, 16) rotatably mounted on the column, so that together they form a circular tray. The circle sector-shaped tray sections (4, 22) are arranged on arms (56, 18) radially projecting from the holder (5, 16) so that substantially the whole surface of each section in the tray (3, 14) is accessible without obstruction by the overlying tray (3, 14).

Abstract: A display system (10) is provided for displaying articles mounted thereon. The display system (10) includes a plurality of panel members (18, 20 and 22) which are insertable into a frame mechanism (28) having vertical column members (36) and longitudinally extending row members (38). The frame mechanism (28) includes an open gridwork frame defined by column members (36) and row members (38). Additionally, said side panel members (46) are longitudinally displaced each from the other and releasably secured to frame body (30) to provide stability for display system (10) when such is mounted on a base surface (48). Article support mechanisms (58) are mounted on row members (38) for folding articles to be displayed thereon. The article support members (58) are removably secured to display system (10) in order that differing patterns may be changed and varied at the discretion of the user.