Patent Application
20060138066
(a) Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to display racks that are to be assembled on the field, and more particularly to a flexible, highly efficient, and easy to assemble display rack structure used in show room or exhibition hall.
(b) Description of the Prior Art
Many businesses in their show rooms and/or exhibition halls use temporary structures such as display racks and/or frames for their mobility and functionality. These structures are designed for easy assembly to achieve flexibility and convenience in transportation and storage.
Most of these designs use a few basic types of beams that can be put together easily. To obtain the necessary strength of the finished structure, the construction is usually consisted of two or more main beams connected with several connecting or supporting beams in between. The disadvantages of prior arts are:
First, traditionally these supporting beams are welded together. Although welding makes a strong connection, the bulky structure makes them difficult to transport and store.
Secondly, to meet different configuration and strength requirements, many types and sizes of beams are needed resulting in cumbersome stocking and material management operation.
Thirdly, to avoid the problems created by welding connection, some manufacturers also provide screws and bolts type of connections which use ball-shaped connectors to put together extension beams. This type of structure has the advantage of easy assembly but at the expense of labor extensive and time consuming operations in the field. Again, it has the disadvantage of stocking many types of beams to meet different configuration requirements.
Fourthly, on top of these, the prior arts use screws and press-fit gadgets to fasten face-plates for marking and description of goods displayed onto the displaying racks. These steps are also labor extensive and time consuming.
Therefore, there is indeed a need for simplified structure that can provide flexible rack configuration, convenient assembling method, and easy attachment of accessories such as face-plates. This invention offers an innovated design meets all these desired features.
The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide an improved structure of assembled display rack construction. In this invention, the main mechanical structure comprises two or more main beams with pre-defined length, embedded connecting sockets movable vertically on the main beam, diagonal support beams to be installed on the main beams using the connecting sockets, and other required accessories.
The main design feature of this invention is that the connecting socket has U-shaped slots formed by built-in parallel flanges for installation of the diagonal support beams and face-plates required.
From the description of the mechanical structure and associated operational characteristics, the present innovative design provides flexibility in the number of and space between main beams as well as means of adding support beams and face-plates. This invention has the additional advantage of adding extension sockets at the end of each main beam, so the structure can be repeated to fill the required space and display need.
The foregoing and other objects, features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become better understood from a careful reading of a detailed description provided herein below with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.
The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
In the following, detailed description along with the accompanied drawings explains fully the preferred embodiments of the present invention.
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It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.
