Patent ID: 6874619

Claim:
A jewelry display assembly comprising: a generally resilient jewelry display pad having a front major surface upon which jewelry is mounted for display, a back major surface, and a first uncompressed thickness extending from the front major surface to the back major surface; the resilient jewelry display pad being compressible from the first thickness in the uncompressed state to a second reduced thickness in a compressed state from which the resilient display pad recovers to the first thickness when no longer subjected to compressive stresses; and a display base, the display base having an upwardly open slot in an upper surface for receiving a lower edge portion of the jewelry display pad; the upwardly open slot extending at an angle between 30° and 60° to the vertical; the upwardly open slot having an open upper end, a closed bottom end, a width, and a depth; the width of the slot for at least a substantial portion of the depth of the slot, which extends from the open upper end of the slot toward the closed bottom end of the slot and which receives the lower edge portion of the jewelry display pad, being substantially constant and less than the first thickness of the jewelry display pad whereby when the lower edge portion of the jewelry display pad is inserted into the slot with the front major surface in contact with a first surface of the slot and the back major surface in contact with a second opposed surface of the slot, the slot compresses the lower edge portion of the jewelry display pad to the second reduced thickness of the jewelry display pad to secure the jewelry display pad to the display base with the front major surface of the jewelry display pad extending from the slot at an angle between 30° and 60° to the vertical that is substantially equal to the angle of the slot to the vertical.