Abstract: A fabricated, knock-down merchandise display fixture which includes a base having forwardly disposed generally vertically extending spaced structural arms mounted in coupled relation to the base, generally adjacent the forward boundary of the base, and extending upwardly relative to the base, with the arms being adapted to provide structural support for the merchandise display deck of the fixture, and with the coupling of the arms providing for folding of the arms relative to the base, thus decreasing the overall height of the base and arms and facilitating shipment of the fixture in knock-down condition. A drawer structure adapted for being disposed in sliding condition on the base, is provided with the drawer including a removable front panel with a rotatable cam lock for detachably securing the front panel to the drawer. The general idea is to simplify the assembly and skill necessary to assemble the fixture at the site of use, while facilitating shipment of the fixture to the site.

Abstract: A display assembly for displaying and storing articles such as greeting cards. The assembly involves a support structure for supporting one or more individual display units with each of the display units having a storage compartment and a display compartment. Means are provided on the display units whereby one display unit can be joined to another display unit.

Abstract: A file tray adapted to be mounted on a generally vertical wall with headed fasteners driven into the wall. The file tray is adapted to serve both as a primary and secondary file tray in a vertical array including a primary file tray and at least one secondary file tray. A vertically oriented mounting surface is adapted to rest against the wall on which the file tray is mounted. A back wall extends forwardly and upwardly from the mounting surface for a selected distance. A back wall flange extends from the top of the back wall rearwardly to the mounting surface. The file tray has compartment having at least a floor and including the back wall. The mounting surface includes bottom and top mounting tabs having notches and holes adapted to engage the shank of a headed fastener so that the head thereof retains the file tray on the wall.

Abstract: A display device for displaying generally planar items such as photographs, cards, letters and the like is formed from a plurality of horizontally extending parallel strips arranged to provide a plurality of leaves in lapping relationship. The outer lower portion of each leaf is formed to provide a pocket for receiving therein the lower margin of the planar element. The upper margin of the element to be displayed may be received under the outer portion of a higher leaf or under the leaf below such higher leaf depending on the height of the element to be displayed.

Abstract: A rack for holding a quantity of record albums, each in a display position of at least partial visibility so as to be individually identifiable for selection by the user. An upstanding backing support which may be hung vertically against a wall or alternately back-tilted when floor supported, has vertically separated transverse ledges, each of which can support the lower edges of several upstanding albums (laterally overlapping). The backing support and its rows of upstanding albums is loosely overlaid lengthwise (vertically) by a restraining member such as a cord or chain which thus holds the total albums in place while allowing any individual album to be manually withdrawn and replaced laterally.

Abstract: A display board for receiving and holding cards or sheets of paper or the like so that information thereon is visible includes a rectangular front wall which is transparent, a rectangular back wall which is opaque and spacing strips between the walls. The spacing strips maintain the walls in spaced relationship and define a plurality of rectangular compartments between the walls. The back wall has slots located at the top of each compartment for insertion and removal of cards. The spacing strips and slots are shaped so that the cards can be removed, but can not be inadvertently spilled.

Abstract: A storage apparatus for removably receiving planar members, such as business records. The storage apparatus comprises a storage container having front and rear wall portions and a pair of spaced rods extending horizontally therebetween. A file envelope is adapted to be removably inserted into the storage container. The file envelope is formed with front and rear upstanding walls, each including an aperture located along the side edge. The apertures engage the pair of spaced rods in the storage container to enable the file envelope to be placed on and slidingly supported by the rods. Removable securing members are placed along the side edges of the file envelope to secure the file envelope on the rods in the storage container. In another embodiment, the apertures are located along the bottom edge of the envelopes such that the envelopes are supported on the top of the rods.

Abstract: The invention concerns the field of information display boards, and relates to an attachment plate constituted in the form of a plane body comprising:on its vertical side edges, two mutually complementary assembling tabs,and on the level of its lower edge, a bar designed to fit in one slot of the board.The present invention finds a particular application with boards designed for the display of T-shaped cards.

Abstract: A card rack includes parallel pairs of coplanar fins that extend inwardly from side walls whose spacing is adjustable. The inner edges of the coplanar fins are spaced apart so as to provide a passage for an elongated stop member that extends through all the compartments. Holes in tabs at both ends of the stop member receive self-tapping screws. The threaded portions of the screws engage opposed faces of upper and lower pairs of fins to secure the stop member in place. The screws can be loosened to slide the stop member along the upper and lower compartments and thereby adjust the depth of all the compartments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a drawer unit for storing cases normally containing magnetic tape cassettes, wherein the drawer unit comprises separator partitions fast with the bottom and with the side walls thereof, and inclined downwardly to the rear and upwardly to the front, in order to define compartments in which the cases may be stored in inclined position.

Abstract: A cabinet for storing tape cassette includes a plurality of first compartments arranged in a vertically stepped array for storing a plurality of tape cassettes with each cassette oriented vertically while resting on one end and a plurality of second compartments formed in a plurality of drawers disposed behind the stepped array of first compartments for storing tape cassettes wherein each cassette rests horizontally on its front or back face. The compartments are preferably made of transparent material and a transparent door is provided.

Abstract: A card rack has dividers that extend from the front wall to the back wall at a acute angle. Each divider has a plurality of holes, and corresponding holes in all of the dividers are aligned to provide a plurality of elongated passages. A rod extends through one of the passages to determine the depth into the compartments between the dividers to which cards can be inserted. By withdrawing the rod from one passage and reinserting it into another passage, the depth of the compartment can be adjusted. This depth adjustment is provided in a card rack that is also adjustable in width.

Abstract: A display rack for a counter top display provides a stairstep effect and is adaptable to a wide variety of display styles and products. The rack includes an outer casing, a support member and a plurality of pockets. The support member has a planar support panel which is inclined when the support member is folded and mounted within the outer casing. Each pocket has depending legs which are mounted within aligned slots in the support panel so as to be arranged in a stairstep manner. The casing, support member and pocket are each in the form of a flat, planar sheet of material which is folded to its assembled configuration.

Abstract: A wide variety of lightweight, simple to assemble furniture items are formed from rigid load bearing (normally vertical) members, rigid cross rods (normally horizontal) fastened to the rigid load bearing members and flexible sheet material. The sheet material interconnects at least two rods to form a shelf, ledge, seat or other holder or support. The flexible members have spring-locking engagement with the rod members and a frictional engagement with the load bearing members. These three elements form a rigid unit when fastened together.

Abstract: A composite letter file consists of a primary tray member defining a letter receptacle and having detent means thereupon for engagement by corresponding detent means on a secondary tray member. A plurality of secondary tray members can be secured to one another and supported from the primary tray member which has supporting means associated therewith adapted to maintain it in operative relationship with a supporting surface. The sidewalls of the secondary tray member are resilient to permit them to be sprung outwardly to permit the mutual engagement of the detent means of said secondary tray member with the corresponding detent means of said primary tray member.

Abstract: A storage device for microfiche cards and the like wherein a pair of sheets are secured in facing relation, one of which is provided with a plurality of parallel slots for receiving microfiche, and the other is cut to define a plurality of inverted generally U-shaped sheet formations having their upper bight regions or apices secured to the slotted sheet between respective slots. This permits of microfiche insertion through each slot between respectively adjacent inverted U-shaped formations to a limiting position of the microfiche with its edge engaging the junctures of the depending legs with the associated sheet.

Abstract: An appliance adapted to engage the underside of the mattress of a bed and extend over the box spring, each extended end having pockets therein for the storage of bedroom articles.

Abstract: A page model used to photographically prepare printing plates incorporates a mounting sheet on which cards for receiving printed matter are slidably secured by card edge retainers on the front side of the mounting sheet. Different embodiments disclosed have the card edge retainers formed as slits in the mounting sheet and transparent retaining strips secured to the front side of the mounting sheet. A retaining sheet secured to the back side of the mounting sheet or tape is utilized to secure card edges inserted through the slits to the back side of the mounting sheet. Strips of transparent double-sided tape secure the transparent retaining strips to the front side of the mounting sheet. A strip of adhesive material, wax as disclosed, cooperates with the card retainers to secure the cards. Nonphotographic horizontal and vertical indicia on the front side of the mounting sheet and the front sides of the cards is provided for use in aligning the cards.

Abstract: A truck cab caddy for holding truck and cargo documents in an orderly fashion includes means for mounting the caddy on a cab door or other surface to cooperate therewith to form an upwardly open compartment, a pencil holder dividing said compartment into segments, and an extended tray portion projecting forwardly therefrom, and display frames for registration certificates and the like mounted on the front of the caddy above the tray.

Abstract: A rack assembly includes a plurality of stacked rack elements adjacent ones of which are connectable to each other to form a terraced rack display. Each rack element is in the shape of a rectangular housing having bottom, rear and side walls. Male connecting members depend downwardly from the frontal portions of the bottom walls of each of the rack elements and are adapted to be snappingly inserted into mating female connecting members provided on the rear walls of cooperating rack elements. The mating female connecting members are spaced upwardly relative to the bottom walls on each rack element so that each succeeding or rearwardly disposed rack element is additionally upwardly elevated in the engaged conditions of the male and female connecting members. Additionally, inverted L-shaped planar female openings are provided in each of the side walls for receiving similarly shaped or inverted L-shaped planar male members.

Abstract: A phonograph record album filing cabinet characterized by a structure wherein a record may be easily selected for use and which may be easily returned to its original place in the cabinet easily after use.

Abstract: A vertical wall support unit includes laterally spaced support members including interlocking means to receive thin box-like receptacles which are open at the top for storage of paper and the like. The thin receptacles are arranged in a vertical, stacked row in overlapping face-to-face relationship with releasable interlocking elements. The wall support unit is constructed with a wedge-shaped portion to tilt the receptacles outwardly and increase the visibility and accessibility of the open tops. Each receptacle in the row engages and is supported by the adjacent receptacle of the row to be held thereby in the desired outwardly tilted position.

Abstract: A vertical storage rack for cards or the like comprises a casing means carried by the casing for forming a plurality of downwardly-extending pockets which overlap each other from front to back and have openings one above the other at the front of the rack and means for supporting the bottom edges of the cards in the pockets at levels which can be decided by the user either by adjusting the depths of the pockets or by inserting the cards against selected parts of the pocket. Preferably each pocket is formed of a sheet of flexible material the front edge of which is fixed and forms the bottom edge of the pocket opening and the rear edge of which is supported by adjusting means which can be operated to raise or lower the back of the pocket and thus adjust its depth. Vertical dividing members are movable between different positions along the pockets and divide the latter into individual pockets the width of which can be adjusted.

Abstract: A filing assembly includes a plurality of thin box-like receptacles which are open at the top for storage of paper and the like and have mechanical interlocking means on the front and back. Each receptacle has an angulated or inclined back lower wall. The thin receptacle may be arranged on a wall in a vertical stacked row. The receptacles are in overlapping face-to-face relationship with the mechanical interlocking means engaged and the lower inclined wall engages the wall and serves to tilt the receptacles outwardly and increases the visibility and accessibility of the open tops. Each receptacle in the row is supported by the preceding receptacle of the row. The interlocked receptacles may be also interlocked and placed on a horizontal surface for developing a plurality of vertically spaced horizontal receptacles.

Abstract: A holder made of clear plastic appropriately sized for use in an office copier is made with prealigned holding pockets to contain one or more specifically sized card-type documents. A set of cards is inserted into the pockets and held in a manner such that data on the cards can be reproduced in the copier.

Abstract: Free standing, combined product display and storage device particularly suitable for store merchandising of shoes and characterised by including the combination of two end panels having between them a plurality of storage shelves positioned one above the other with storage spaces between them, the end panels extend a distance beyond the front edges of the shelves and carry between them a series of horizontally disposed trough-like formations positioned side-by-side with one above the other and hiding the storage shelves from customer view, each trough-like formation having an upper and a lower outwardly extending sides with each lower side being comprised of a plurality of contiguous product display platforms in a row and resting on the outer edge of the upper side of the next lower trough-like formation, each product display platform being fulcrumed to pivot upwardly to provide access to the storage space on an associated one of the storage shelves.

Abstract: A reminder card or bill rack, or the like, which has a frame and a pair of side-by-side vertically aligned series of card pockets on the frame. Between the two series of pockets is a common vertical column of indicia on the frame dividing a given period of time, such as a month, into sub-increments, such as weeks, in alignment with the respective pockets. The frame has a housing at the top thereof within which is mounted a pair of roller members, one for each vertical series of pockets. Indicia is provided on each of the rollers, such as the twelve months of the year seriatim about the periphery of the rollers. A window is provided in the housing for each roller so as to observe the indicia thereon. Each roller is independently rotatable and has a handle connected thereto and exposed exteriorly of the housing for manual manipulation by a user.

Abstract: A tray for a manual document handling system for use in processing and handling documents in offices and the like and for use on specially designed support panels. The trays are of a special shape for easy insertion, storing and retrieving of documents in an orderly fashion and include an inclined side wall against which the documents lay. An insert sheet member is provided to be mounted against the side wall for increasing the surface area against which papers lay when inserted into the tray. An unique locking mechanism is provided for securing the insert sheet member in place.