Patent ID: 6960044

Claim:
An arrangement for supporting a canopy suitable for accommodating people and items of interest to retail consumers, the arrangement comprising in combination: an array of rectangular posts, each post having four vertical sides, a top end and a bottom end with a rail coupling at the top end, the rail coupling consisting essentially of a rectangular socket fixed to each of the vertical sides; an array of rectangular rails, each having post couplings consisting essentially of a rectangular pintle projecting therefrom at first and second ends thereof; a canopy support frame consisting essentially of the rectangular rails being supported in spaced relation to the ground by receipt of the rectangular pintles in the rectangular sockets of at least four vertically disposed posts with the connected post and rail couplings being the only couplings attaching the vertically extending posts to one another thereby providing unobstructed vertical spaces between adjacent posts, and a canopy connected to the rails and held in spaced relation to the ground by the posts to at least shield ground beneath the canopy from sun light.