The Croydon Company, Inc.

Henry C Orr

James R Dokoupil

Robert K Scherzer

Donald Crispin

Robert W Ackley

Jerome A Dubos

Eric Ludewig

Linda Lewis

Robert D Lindridge

Donald J Crispin

A combined display and storage unit including a cubical base with four side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, each surrounded and supported by a framework and defining an enclosed storage space. One of the side walls is hinged to provide access to the storage space. Pieces may be supported and displayed on the outer surfaces of the four side walls, preferably by constructing the side walls of slatwall material. The framework surrounding the top wall provides a square recess for alternatively receiving a transparent display case, a wire book support and a merchandise tray. The base is preferably mounted on casters for free movement.

Combined display/storage unit having alternately useable caps

A display unit for media such as books, audio and video cassettes, etc. includes a rotating tower-type array of shelves and a supporting framework which is mountable to a rigid, vertically oriented panel, such as the end panel of a bookcase. The rotatable tower is mounted between the free ends of a pair of horizontal support arms which are fixedly supported at their other ends by a vertical column and a cross-arm which extends across and is fixedly attached at its mid-point to the upper end of the vertical column. A pair of U-shaped members are mounted to opposite ends of the cross-arm and are rotatable with respect thereto about the horizontal, longitudinal axis of the cross-arm. The unit is mounted to the panel by the U-shaped members passing around the side edges of the panel so that one of the legs of each member contacts the rear side of the panel while the remainder of the unit rests against the front side.

Panel-supported display unit

The present invention provides a rotatable tower for holding and displaying books, video cassettes, and like articles on a plurality of square shelves which extend in horizontal planes and are supported in vertically spaced relation to one another by a plurality of vertically extending rods, groups of which are interconnected into L-shaped configurations by L-shaped, horizontally extending rods. The shelves include an elongated slot formed from the midpoint of each edge inwardly towards the shelves' geometric center, and two laterally spaced notches formed in each edge to one side of the slot. Each edge of the shelves includes a downwardly extending flange along their entire lengths and an upwardly extending flange along a portion of the length to the opposite side of the slot in which the notches are formed. Each L-shaped group of vertically extending rods is comprised of four rods, two rods forming each leg of the L. The rods in each group are spaced from one another a distance corresponding with the length and spacing of the slot and notches formed in each edge, thereby permitting one group of rods to engage the slot and notches formed in each edge of each shelf. Each shelf can be slid downwardly on the rods until they engage the adjacent horizontally extending L-shaped rods which interconnect the vertically oriented rods. The shelves' downwardly extending flanges will prevent the horizontally oriented rods, and hence the vertically oriented rods, from becoming disengaged from the shelves. Moreover, the engagement of one set of L-configured rods with each edge of each shelf systematically divides each shelf into four distinct article supporting regions.

Rotatable display tower

Display stand

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Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Henry C Orr