Patent ID: 8469208
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: A47F,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A display unit, comprising: a frame including a plurality of spaced apart legs arranged in a common vertical plane, each of the legs having a top end, a bottom end, and a plurality of vertically spaced slots, and a wall having two opposite edge portions attached to two adjacent ones of the legs and arranged parallel to the common vertical plane; a plurality of horizontal rails having first and second ends, and first and second knife brackets affixed to the first and second ends of the horizontal rails, each of the knife brackets comprising a plurality of engagement tabs that engage with the slots and a locking device that is movable between a locked position, in which it retains the horizontal rail engaged with a respective one of the legs, and an unlocked position; a plurality of display pages, each of the pages being mounted for pivoting movement between an upper rail and a lower rail of the plurality of horizontal rails; each of the knife brackets includes a channel that extends to an outer edge of the knife bracket; each of the knife brackets further includes front and rear pairs of clasps, each one of the clasps of a respective pair is located on an opposite side of the channel; each of the locking devices comprises a central spring element integrally formed between two support plates, a first one of the support plates is fixed in position in the rear pair of clasps and the second support plate is slidably engaged in the front pair of clasps, and the locking strip extends from an outer end of the second support plate.