Patent ID: 7543783

Claim:
Display device for a bottle, comprising: a pedestal, and a display panel for holding and retaining a bottle, said display panel being formed of two transparent shells extending upwardly from the pedestal, each shell comprising a frame and a core mounted thereon, the core of each shell being rigid and provided with a concave, arcuate recess and each shell being moveable with respect to the pedestal, between a closed position in which the shells are partly adjacent and in which the recesses together form an internal cavity the shape of which is partly complementary with the shape of a bottle, and an open position in which the shells are spaced from each other, the cores further have lateral faces provided with lateral cutouts together forming, in the closed position, a lateral aperture allowing a bottle held in the recess to be touched even in the closed position, the internal cavity opening out into said lateral aperture.