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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1987
Paul L Flum, Ladue, MO (US);
Paul Flum Ideas, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A display unit capable of being both vertically and horizontally arranged to achieve a wide variety of modular configurations comprising a plurality of substantially similar shelf members, a plurality of elongated support members, a plurality of socket cavities associated with the upper and lower portions of each of the shelf members for cooperatively engaging and supporting the elongated support members in a substantially upright position relative to each shelf member, and a plurality of connector members for joining two of the shelf members in side-by-side relationship one adjacent the other, each of the connector members having a pair of socket cavities associated with one end portion thereof for cooperatively engaging any one of the plurality of socket cavities associated with the upper and lower shelf portions and a single socket cavity associated with the opposite end portion thereof for cooperatively engaging one end portion of each of the elongated support members, the elongated support members and the connector members being positioned and engaged with each other and with the respective upper and lower socket cavities associated with adjacent shelf members to connect such shelf members in spaced apart relationship one above the other and/or in side-by-side relationship one adjacent the other. Each of the elongated support members includes side wall portions which are concavely biased to improve the joinder between each support member and each such shelf cavity.