Columnarly abuttable retail display brackets

Abstract

Disclosed, for surroundable and removably attachable usage with the upright column of a retail displaying environment, twinnably employable Columnarly Abuttable Display Brackets collarwise uprightly abuttable along mutual 45°-angle second-planes, each such Display Bracket having a tri-walls type columnarly surroundable collar and which includes an uprightly trapezoidal second-wall uprightly delineated by a horizontal first-plane and a 45°-angle second-plane, an upright and flanged first-wall, and a loftily arrested third-wall that is designatable as situs from collar removable attachment to said upright column, and each said first-wall (nearer to said second-plane than to the first-plane thereof) being provided with a horizontally extending elong-arm and which resultant twinned elongate arms are extendable radially colinearly away from a said environmental column.

Description

GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE INVENTION

[0001] For columnar types retail displaying environments, it is the general objective of the present invention to separate, twinnably in columnarly surroundable and vertically adjustably stationable, display brackets that respectively collarwise support horizontally elongate merchandise displaying arms, and which auxiliary arms extend efficiently and aesthetically colinearly in opposite horizontal directions from a common upright columnar environment.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE INVENTION

[0002] With the above mentioned General Objective of the Invention in view, and together with other ancillary and related objectives, which will become more apparent as the foregoing Detailed Drawing Description will suggest, the Columnarly Abuttable Display Brackets concept of the present invention generally comprises: columnarly twinnably abuttably employable, substantially identical Display Brackets and which at respective collars substantially surround and removably attach to an environmental column of generally-rectangular cross-sectional shape, the two collars at mutual 45°-angle planes being in vertical abutment at said column, and the respective collars at their parallel flanged upright first-walls (and locationwise immediately adjacent said 45°-angle plane) being provided with horizontal elongate arms radiating from a said column in colinear horizontal alignment.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

[0003] In the drawing, wherein like characters refer to like parts in the several views, and in which:

[0004] FIG. 1 is a sideward elevational assembly view showing a twinned pair of substantially identical display brackets (10) which, with respect to an environmental retailing upright column (9), collarwise (11) substantially surround and vertically abut along a 45°-angle plane 11F. Suffixes “A” and “B” for respective numerical characters 10-14 are arbitrarily indicative of the upper and lower columnarly positionable display brackets (e.g. 10A, 10B, etc.) depicted in drawing FIGS. 1, 2, and 4;

[0005] FIG. 2 is an exploded view, and textually embellished with an arcuate double-headed arrow, showing how similar display brackets 10 might be cooperatively employed into the FIG. 1 assembly situation;

[0006] FIG. 3 is a sideward elevational view of the respective FIG. 2 display brackets (10A, 10B);

[0007] FIG. 4 is a sectional plan view taken along lines 4-4 of FIG. 1;

[0008] FIG. 5 is a sectional plan view taken along lines 5-5 of drawing FIGS. 1 and 3.

DETAILED DRAWING DESCRIPTION

[0009] Reference characters having a “9” prefix refer to a columnar type retailing environment of the prior art, and supportable for the twinnably employable Golumnarly Abuttable Display Brackets (e.g. 10A, 10B) of the present invention and respectively primarily equipped with columnarly surroundable Bracket collar (e.g. 11A, 11B). A such prior art retailing environment typically comprises a rectangularly cross-sectional column 9 extending vertically uprightly along central-axis 9A from a lower-base 9T downwardly implantable upon an underlying substrate “S”. In rectangular cross-section, a typical environmental column (9) comprises four preferably planar vertically upright surfaces including: two parallel reference faces (alternatively designatable as first-face 9R1 and second-face 9R2); a first-surface 9M (a host for collar second-walls 13A, 13B) that abruptly intersects reference faces 9R1 and 9R2; and which first-surface 9M is generally parallel to a column second-surface 9N.

[0010] As alluded to hereabove, each such preferably identical Display Bracket (10A, 10B) essentially comprises a generally C-shaped collar (11A, 11B) of upright tri-walls configuration (12-14) and all such walls preferably commonly extending along a horizontal first-plane 11E. Most prominent among said upright tri-walls 12-14 (with their suffixes A and B differentially between vertically distinct Brackets' coll ar walls therefor) is a trapezoidal second-wall 13 delineated uprightly by said firstplane 11E and by a 45°-angle second-plane 11F. Rigidly flanking said second-wall (13A, 13B) at right-angles are: a flanged and relatively lofty (11E-11F) first-wall (12A, 12B) respectively having an upright major-part and an upright minor-part 12N; and an arrested height third-wall 14. A such third-wall is desireably furnished with a horizontal set-screw 15 serving as an efficaceous means for removably attaching a vertically slidable bracket collar (11A, 11B) about an environmental column (9). In the latter regard, a generous upright gap exists between first-wall minor-part 12N and third-wall 14 to enable a such collar (11A, 11B), at any elevation of a such column (9), to be semi-surroundably located thereabout. Collarwise outwardly, each such first-wall, nearer to the 45°-angle second-plane 11F than to the first-plane 11E thereof, is provided with a rigidly horizontally extending elongate arm 16 having a linear axis 17.

[0011] Accordingly, a such display bracket (10) as described in the immediately preceeding paragraph, might collarwise (11) semi-surround the upright four faces/surfaces of an aforedescribed rectangularly-cross-sectional environmental upright column (9) in the following manner:

[0012] in any event, a collar second-wall 13 will uprightly confront a columnar first-surface 9M whereby the collar first-wall 12 at its major-part 12M will uprightly confront one columnar reference face (9R1, 9R2) and its minor-part 12N will confront a column second-surface 9N, and whereby a collar third-wall 14 together with its set-screw 15 will uprightly confront another column reference face (9R2, 9R1). And in the foregoing regard, the first-wall's collarwise and columnarly outwardly extending elongate-arm 16 is adapted to removably receive displayable merchandise thereat.

[0013] And in amplification of a such singly columnarly employed display bracket (10), twinnably employed (10T) display brackets (10A, 10B) as alluded to in drawing FIGS. 1 and 2 represent marked departure from analagous prior arts. In the drawing FIGS. 1 and 2, twinnably utilized brackets (10T): consisting of two of the columnarly surrondable display brackets (10A, 10B) hereabove are employed in vertically abutting relationship along the 45°-angle second-planes 11F of vertically confronting display brackets 10A and 10B. And for such columnarly surrounding and vertically confronting (11F) identical display brackets:

[0014] (a) for the upper positioned bracket 10A: second-wall 13A confronts column first-surface 9M; the first-wall major-part 12M confronts column first-face 9R1 and its minor-part 12N confronts column second-surface 9N; and the third-wall 14A (and its horizontal set-screw 15) confront column second-face 9R2;

[0015] (b) for the lower positioned bracket 10B: second-wall 13B confronts column first-surface 9M; the first-wall major-part 12M confronts column second-face 9R2 and its minor-part 12N confronts column second-surface 9N; and the third-wall 14B (and its horizontal set-screw 15) confront column first-face 9R1; and

[0016] (c) the elongate-arms (16A, 16B) that are respectively rigidly attached to the first-walls' major-parts (12M) efficaceously extend together horizontally along a common axis 17 that radiates from a such columnar environment (9R1, 9R2).

[0017] From the foregoing, the construction and operation of the COLUMNARLY ABUTTABLE DISPLAY BRACKETS concept of the present invention will be readily understood and further explanation is believed to be unnecessary. However, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. For a retail displaying environment of an upright column extending vertically loftily from a substrate and which column is of rectangular cross-sectional shape having two opposed upright reference faces including a first-face and a second-face and also having two opposed upright lateral surfaces including a first-surface and a second surface respectively perpendicularly intersecting said upright reference faces, the improvement of two COLUMNARLY ABUTTABLE DISPLAY BRACKETS, and which BRACKETS respectively comprise:

(A) a generally C-shaped collar mostly surrounding and vertically slidable along said column and respectively comprising three upright walls together terminating upwardly along a horizontal first-plane and in tripartite connected relationship including: a lofty central trapezoidal second-wall therebelow terminating at a 45°-angle second-plane and which second-walls abut a column first-surface, a lofty flanged first-wall respectively primarily abuttable against opposite columnar opposed reference faces, and abbreviated height third-walls respectively abuttable against opposite remaining reference faces, and said collars being provided with removable attachment means for said column, and said collars being employed in vertically abutting relationship at said 45°-angle second-plane; and

(B) for each collar second-wall at a location nearer to the second-plane than to the first-plane thereof, an elongate horizontal arm, whereby such arms of vertically abutting DISPLAY BRACKETS are disposed in horizontal alignment.

2. The COLUMNARLY ABUTTABLE DISPLAY BRACKETS of claim 1 wherein the respective first-walls are secondarily abuttable against a column upright second-surface; and wherein the removable attachment means comprises a horizontally-extending set-screw threadedly engaged with a collar third-wall and impingeable with a said column.

3. An individual DISPLAY BRACKET abuttable along a 45°-angle plane against an identical Display Bracket and around a cross-sectionally uniform rectangular upright column, said DISPLAY BRACKET comprising:

(A) a generally C-shaped collar comprising in unitary tripartite walls relationship and together terminating along an upward horizontal first-plane:

(i) a lofty, flanged first-wall that is primarily abuttable against an upright reference face of a said column;

(ii) a lofty, trapezoidal second-wall terminating therebelow at a 45°-angle second-plane and adapted to abut a column upright lateral surface; and

(iii) an abbreviated height third-wall equipped with set-screw for engagement with a said upright column; and

(B) at a second-wall location nearer to the 45°-angle second-plane thereof than to the upper-plane thereof, an attached elongate horizontal arm and thereby environmentally radially extendable from a said environmental upright column.