Patent ID: 6056133
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: A47B,A47F

Abstract:
A combination display device and storage rack component comprising:a) a base; said base being flat, generally rectangular-shaped, and having a pair of opposing edges and an inner surface, said inner surface having a width and being for facing a viewing surface of an object housed in said combination display device and storage rack component; said base further having a first pair and a second pair of notches therein, with said first pair of notches being spaced-apart from the second pair of notches; each said pair of notches communicating with a respective one of said edges of said pair of opposing edges;b) a pair of side walls extending upwardly from said base;c) hanging means for hanging said combination display device and storage rack component on a vertical wall;d) resting means for resting said combination display device and storage rack component on a horizontal surface inclined with respect to said horizontal surface; said base further having a specifically configured cutout therein having an uppermost edge, said resting mean comprising an easel stand, said easel stand being disposed within said cutout and detachably attached to said base by easel stand runners, and said easel stand being integrally formed with said base; said hanging means comprising a wall hanger, said wall hanger being disposed within specifically configured cutout, said wall hanger having a width and being detachably attached to said base by wall hanger runners, said wall hanger being integrally formed with said base; said wall hanger having a body portion being generally square-shaped, said wall hanger runners being attached to said body portion; said body portion of said wall hanger further having an inner surface being coplanar with said inner surface of said base and having a double faced adhesive pad adhered on said inner surface of said body portion;e) stacking and interlocking means for stacking and interlocking a plurality of said combination display device and storage rack components;f) three support ridges being spaced-apart from each other, aligned with each other, and each being generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped; said three support ridges being disposed on said inner surface of said base parallel to and spaced slightly inwardly from one of said pair of opposing edges of said base and adapted to support one end of the viewing surface of the object housed in said combination display device and storage rack component; one of said three support ridges being disposed between one of said first pair and said second pair of notches and a remaining pair of said three support ridges being disposed outboard of said one of said first pair and said second pair of notches; andg) a continuous support ridge having a center and being generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped and disposed on said inner surface of said base and extending across said width of said inner surface of said base and being parallel to and spaced slightly inwardly from the other of said first pair and said second pair of notches and adapted to support another end of the viewing surface of the object housed in said combination display device and storage rack component; said wall hanger further having a nose portion being generally triangular-shaped and extending coplanarly from said body portion of said wall hanger toward said continuous support ridge; said wall hanger further having a wall hanger ridge being rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped and parallel to said continuous support ridge, said wall hanger ridge having a height substantially equal to a height of said continuous support ridge and being disposed on said inner surface of said body portion of said wall hanger at a meeting of said body portion of said wall hanger and said nose portion of said wall hanger and extending across said width of said wall hanger; said wall hanger further having a wall hanger nose ridge being triangular-shaped and extending said wall hanger ridge of said wall hanger at a midpoint of said wall hanger ridge toward said nose portion of said wall hanger, said wall hanger nose ridge having a height substantially equal to a height of said wall hanger ridge.