Patent ID: 6530485
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A display system comprising a base panel and a tiered arrangement of an array of display elements sequentially self-supported, one from the other without the need of a direct support for the sequential elements from said base panel except for a first one of said display elements supported on said base panel where said base panel includes a plurality of vertically spaced and horizontally extended rail formations with slots, the slots having a generally upwardly hook-formed cross-sectional profile in said panel base said array of display elements comprising at leasta first bracket for securing a first display unit in adjacent relationship with the base panel the first bracket including: a back portion, including an element for holding said first display unit adjacent to the lease panel; a front portion spaced from the back portion, the front portion having a lip towards a top of the front portion; a base portion between the back portion and the front portion; a second bracket with a back portions including a support element for holding a second display unit adjacent the first bracket; the front portion being shorter than the back portion of the first bracket and the front portion permitting the second bracket to depend from the front portion is said support elements with the back portion of the second bracket being in adjacency with the front portion of the first bracket; a rearwardly directed non-hook protrusion from a back portion of the second bracket for engaging matingly an underside of the base portion of the first bracket; a taper from the top of the back portion of the first bracket to be of increasing thickness towards the base portion of the first bracket, the back portion of the first and second bracket being a non-resilient material; and rounded corners internally and externally between the front portion and base portion, and the base portion and back portion of the first bracket.