Abstract: A temporary shelter including a support structure extending upwardly from a base and hollow compartment members mounted upon the support structure, the hollow compartment further including an opening and a liquid drain. A window formed within the compartment walls transmits light from a light box mounted adjacent thereto and electrically connected to a power source.

Abstract: A brick panel wall construction is disclosed including a backing board for a brick panel which is formed of extruded plastic foam for moisture resistance and insulating. The wall construction includes a plurality of brick panels having plastic foam backing boards and a plurality of panel clips which support the backing board against the supporting structure and, when mortar is applied and cured, support the bricks which are secured to the backing boards. Each panel clip is attached at two locations, one to the backing board and the second through the backing board into the supporting structure. Further, legs extend outwardly from the panel clips into the mortar joints to provide a direct mechanical connection between the bricks mounted on the backing board and the supporting structure. These legs have retaining lips configured to create a wedge like action to provide additional support.

Abstract: To provide for modular arrangements, a six-sided pay telephone housing is constructed using vertically oriented panels. The panels are connected to each other using fastenerless moldings that allow for rapid construction of the housing and easy replacement of the panels. Provision is also made in the housing for an electronic information display as well as replaceable advertising placards.

Abstract: A rectangular frame made up of inwardly facing channels embraces upper and lower panels of relatively rigid light-weight porous or foam material capable of receiving pins, etc., to serve as a bulletin board. One edge of the frame has a pair of vertically spaced ears apertured in vertical alignment for attachement to a door via the hinge pins of the door hinges. The frame is cross-braced at about its midpoint and the cross brace serves also to retain the upper of the two panels against downward shifting.

Abstract: Modular slotwall members for use with face boards to form a modularized slotwall of any desired size on a wall. The upper and lower edges of the face boards are received in the upper and lower face board channels of adjacent modular slotwall members. Each modular slotwall member is provided with a slot sized to releasably hold a slotwall display fixture. The face board channels in the modular slotwall members are sized, shaped and arranged to enable face boards of different thicknesses to be used, to help ensure the upper and lower edge portions of the face boards contact the front edges of their respective face board channels for a neat appearance, to permit face boards with conventional rectangular edges to be used without modification, and to permit the face boards to be easily inserted into and removed from the face board channels of the installed modular slotwall members for repair, replacement and reversal.

Abstract: A slat wall section includes a plurality of front horizontal members spaced from each other in a front plane. The front members having first and second horizontal edges, both of which have a rearwardly extending lip. Rear horizontal members having first and second horizontal borders are disposed in a rear plane, which is substantially parallel to the front plane. Each section includes first and second ends, with one rear member extending to the first end and one front member extending to the second end. Substantially parallel transverse connecting members extend between, and are generally perpendicular to, the front and rear members. At least one connecting member extends from each of the front members to a rear member. The connecting members are spaced from the first and second horizontal edges of the front members. A first connector defines the first end of the section, and includes a flange extending toward the front plane.

Abstract: A telephone booth wherein the sidewalls are box-like enclosures each having one or more advertising displays. The displays are illuminated by a light source located in the interior of each enclosure and the same light source also serves to illuminate the interior of the booth. The sidewall enclosures have an openable panel which permits the advertising displays to be changed from time to time as well as permitting access to the light source.

Abstract: A kit for forming a variable sized bay-shaped display comprises rear well sections coupled together, bay dividers formed of hinged panels, and end caps covering the hinge of the divider to which it is attached.

Abstract: Describes a modular display system which includes a plurality of side members and a base portion for each of the side members. A support surface is formed on each of the base portions and a pair of spaced parallel legs are associated with each such side member and project at right angles to its respective support surface providing a channel therebetween. Also provided are a plurality of bracket members, each of which has a portion thereof within the channel of adjacent side members. Fasteners are further provided for maintaining the bracket members within respective channels whereby the side members are interconnected.

Abstract: A modular display system is provided having a series of floor platforms which are secured together in edge-to-edge contact, by "plug-in" locks at the corners of two or more platforms. The locks engage floor frames below floor panels, through notches or cutout areas at the corners of the panels. Each lock engages at least two frames at their adjoining corners by downwardly projecting prongs, which preferably seat in the interior corner angles of the frames. The lock fits in the contiguous panel cutouts so that it is flush with the surface of the panels. Vertical columns may upstand from the locks, to support light boxes, shelving, tables, and the like.

Abstract: A scaffold assembly for supporting members of a musical choir in a standing arrangement simulating the appearance of a traditional Christmas tree is disclosed. The scaffold assembly is arranged in tiers of horizontal standing boards rising one above and one behind another in stairway fashion from a base tier of standing boards to an uppermost tier of standing boards. The horizontal standing boards of each tier are arranged to form a segmented arc in a plane which is transverse to the vertical axis of the scaffold assembly. The tiers are stabilized by a plurality of horizontal support beams and upright support posts and a central stanchion. A first set of horizontal support beams project radially outwardly from a central plate, which is attached to the central stanchion, to the underside of the standing boards, and are attached to the respective support posts at the perimeter of selected ones of the tier.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying articles comprising: modular panels adapted to be joined together and fastened to a support wall, each panel having a back wall, a plurality of ribs extending outwardly from the back wall at separated intervals, a plurality of flanges each extending from the other end of the rib to form surfaces parallel to the back wall and coplanar with the surfaces of the other flanges and, to form channels between the back wall and adjacent flanges, a lower extension of the back wall, and an upper extension of the back wall extending beyond the uppermost flange, having a furrow for receiving the lower extension of another panel and having an indentation for indicating positions of bores for driving fasteners through the upper extension to fasten the panel to said wall. The lowermost flange of the other panel covers the fasteners when the lower extension is received by the furrow.

Abstract: A collapsible, portable display frame may be erected so that it has either a planar or non-planar face surface. Snap fasteners associated with pivot bodies on the face surface cooperate with stabilizing strips or graphics. Graphics may be easily hung in sheets which cover an entire column of structural units of the display frame, and magnetic strips hold the sheets in alignment along their edges.

Abstract: A memorial for a grave or a multigrave cemetery plot has a polyhedral rectangular parallelepipedal body composed of sheet metal, e.g. aluminum, mounted upon a base and having a removable cover by which access can be afforded to the interior of the body for storing grave-maintenance equipment or plant-supplying water therein.

Abstract: A building set for the setting up of a rectangular, upright plate forming the basis for adhered text comprises: (a) two uniform, rectangular plate sections (1,2) with tracks (3,4), dovetailed in cross-section, on the internal sides facing each other, (b) at least one split locking means (5) whose parts (6 and 7) can be inserted into the tracks (3,4) and, upon displacement transversely to the tracks (3,4), fix by wedge effect the two plate sections (1,2) around (c) a vertical end profile (9,10) at either end of the sign. One or both of the end profiles (10) may form a carrier means (13) for the sign, and said carrier means (13) is capable of carrying several signs. This obviates the problem of disfiguring screws, bolts or the like on the vertical side faces of the plate as the two parts (6 and 7) of the locking means (5) may be mutually displaced transversely to the tracks (3,4) by means of screws which are concealed in the space between the plate sections (1,2).

Abstract: A solar display kiosk particularly to a display kiosk that during day time conditions is illuminated by the sun. It provides, in its preferred embodiment, a closed cylindrical member placed in the vertical position with an open or a closed but light transmissive upper end, which acts as a receiver for solar or ambient light. A circumferential band at the top of the kiosk acts a shading member to place regions immediately beneath such band into shade either totally or in part (umbra and penumbra). Translucent display materials are mounted in the walls of the cylinder in the zones of umbra or penumbra. To the viewer they appear to be highly illuminated, the illumination coming from the solar light entering into the center of the cylinder.

Abstract: An office building has a glass paneled exterior with transparent window panels extending from floor to ceiling of each story and a horizontal row of panels of translucent glass positioned adjacent the floor or the ceiling of a single story building or between the top portion of one story and the bottom portion of the next story in a multi-story building. An illuminated sign is provided comprising a plurality of electrically illuminated sign modules aligned linearly behind some of the translucent glass panels, which comprise a plurality of individual lights, selectively illuminable in the form of any one of a plurality of selected alphanumeric characters or symbols. The individual lights, when energized, provide light of an intensity sufficient to be seen outside the translucent glass panels but are invisible from the outside when deenergized. Control switches, etc., are provided for selectively energizing the lights on selected ones of the sign modules.

Abstract: An elongated stabilizer is coupled to a generally vertical pole or stake, and disposed transverse to the pole or stake, extending in opposite directions therefrom, for engagement with the ground surface. The stabilizer may tilt relative to the post to accommodate inclined terrain. The stabilizer is provided with means defining four guide paths for four separate anchor rods, the rods being elongated linear members with heads at one end. All of the guide paths are disposed in planes generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the stabilizer with two such guide paths being provided at each end of the stabilizer on opposite sides of the post. The two guide paths at each end of the stabilizer are provided to guide the rods at angles relative to a plane common to the pole or stake and the stabilizer, with the paths being inclined at opposite angles relative to that plane so that the anchor rods are driven into the ground at opposite angles relative to that plane.

Abstract: A holder for holding thin rigid planar signs includes a base having a trough for receiving and seating an edge of the sign. An essentially planar wall extends from the trough against which the sign is urged by a pressure pad in order to maintain the sign in a stationary position. The pressure pad is mounted in the base and has a plurality of blades projecting essentially normal to and abutting the surface of the planar wall. Upon insertion of the sign in the holders, the blades exert a resulting force on the sign to urge the sign flush against the planar wall. By virtue of the seating of the sign edge in the trough, the sign is prevented from rotation away from the wall and out of the holder as a result of wind forces acting on the sign.

Abstract: A hollow post tube 12 is reciprocable on an anchor spike 14 to implement the placement and removal of a sign post. A striker plate 20 located on the bottom of the post tube may be repeatedly hammered down against a ground abutment plate 16 or up against an impact plate 18, both secured on the anchor spike, to drive the anchor spike into or out of the ground. Planar ears 22 secured to the spike below the ground abutment plate prevent the spike from turning in situ, and the post tube and impact plate are cooperably square in section to prevent the tube from rotating on the spike. A sign carrying cross bar 24 is removably mounted in the open upper end of the post tube by a releasable spring detent strap 36 rigidly secured to a mounting tube 34.

Abstract: A display for ceiling boards is fabricated to provide consumers with an indication of the different ceiling board designs which are available for purchase. The display is suspended at an inclined relationship for the purpose of displaying the different ceiling designs in a simulated suspended ceiling arrangement. Divider means are provided between adjacent ceiling designs to segregate the different designs and to more clearly simulate a room display for each design.

Abstract: A display frame, which carries a sheet of mylar metalized to provide a mirror and an advertising display placard, is provided with a number of straps disposed for coaction with a turnbuckle type mounting device to securely position the display upon pillars of I-beam configuration such as those found in subway and train stations. The turnbuckle assembly of the mounting device is such as to exert compressive forces against opposed inner faces of the I-beam flanges and, in one embodiment, coacts with straps secured to the rear wall of the display to mount the display across the edges of said I-beam flanges so as to hide the mounting means in the space behind the display and between the flanges and web of the I-beam pillar.The display frame is formed with one or more advertising placard mounting sections formed with grooves to facilitate positioning and easy removal of the placards which carry an advertising message. Such display sections in some embodiments are at an angle with respect to the mirror.

Abstract: A clamping device is provided from which various structural systems can be built comprising poles or tubular members, panels or a combination of the same. The clamping device comprises a pair of socket-forming assemblies hinged for pivotal movement preferably about a common hinge axis which enables the socket axes to be progressively varied between positions where they are parallel to a selection of positions where they are perpendicular to one another. Means are provided for selectively locking the socket-forming assemblies in any one of their adjusted positions. Each of the socket-forming assemblies comprises a pair of confronting members having confronting surfaces forming a socket for receiving a panel or rubber-like insert member having a slot adapted to receive a panel therein. The socket-forming surfaces of each pair of confronting members terminate to form an entryway into the socket of appreciable size and preferably asymmetrically related to a line at right angles to the hinge axis.

Abstract: This invention relates to a shelter construction including a roof section and vertically disposed legs for supporting the roof section. A vertical wall extends between the legs and advertising material or the like is retained by the wall. The legs combined with horizontal supports provide a border for the wall, and transparent panels are utilized for retaining advertising material between the panels and the wall. The roof is provided by means of sheets which extend substantially horizontally and then downwardly and inwardly to provide enclosures along the roof edges. These enclosures house additional advertising material, and lighting is utilized within the enclosure for enhancing the display.