US2218329A - Display device - Google Patents

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Oct. 15, 1940. D DUNBERG 2,218,329

DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Jan. 27. 1939 INVENTOR. DAVID w. DUNBERG.

Paul ATwwoT ATTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 15, 1940 UNITED s'rarss 2 Claims.

My invention relates to a device for holding and displaying articles etc., and particularly in the manner and means of securing the articles to the device. Among its objects and purposes i! are:

Means for securing articles to a display device by the use of a springy wire threaded through the articles and also the device.

A springy wire such as piano wire threaded through apertured bosses so arranged as to resist the removal of the springy wire.

A resilient ring of wire held from removal by its resilience.

A device having apertured bosses arranged annularly to receive a springy wire which being threaded through the bosses resists being removed therefrom.

I accomplish these and other objects by the construction herein described and shown in the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the application of my device.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevation of a modification.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional detail through one of the bosses.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout several views of the drawing and in the following specification and description of my device.

Small articles, novelties, jewelry and ornaments etc., particularly those articles which are apt to become misplaced or lost because of their small size are, by the use of my device detachably secured to it and even though roughly handled do not become detached.

The use of a relatively stiff yet springy wire such as piano wire when threaded through the article and through a plurality of apertured bosses when arranged and positioned properly make the attachment of the articles an easy matter and pulling or prying the article will not disengage the wire from its bosses or the other parts of my device.

When the wire is deformed or sprung out of shape from the true circle to which it conforms when threaded through the bosses relatively great tension on the article in pulling it will not cause the ends of the wire to pull out of the bosses or thus release the articles secured by it.

When the strain on the article causes the wire to be bent upwardly then too the end jambs in 55 the aperture and the end of the wire, if the deformation is near the end, grips the softer material of my device resisting the tendency to withdraw the end of the wire from the nearest boss.

The characteristic of resisting removal of the wire from the bosses through which it is threaded results in adapting the device for numerous uses as a means of securing articles to the device which may be modified in numerous ways without departing from the principles underlying my invention.

In the drawing, I have shown a plurality of discs I of varying diameters arranged one above the other and secured to a central stem 2 which is provided with the base 3.

The upper disc 4 is provided with three bosses 5 each having apertures 6 through which is threaded a piece of piano wire I.

The three bosses are so positioned on the disc as to cause the piano wire to become a circle when it is threaded through the apertures of the bosses. The wire is of a length sufiicient to cause its ends 8 and 9 to overlap for a substantial distance and also to extend for a substantial distance beyond one of the bosses. 25

The apertures in the several bosses are 1 to 2 times the diameter of the wire. The aperture in the boss through which the ends of the'wire overlap is preferably only slightly larger than twice the diameter of the wire.

The wire may be formed or permanently curved to the diameter of the circle to which it conforms when in position in the several bosses- The bosses when arranged in a relatively large circle may be increased in number so that the distance between each boss is not great enough to cause the wire to be easily sprung or deformed by the maximum stress for which it is designed.

The bosses are preferably formed by cutting a portion iii of their periphery out of the disc of which they are an integral part and by bending the uncut portion II at 90 degrees from the flat plane l2 of the disc as may be seen by referring to Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing.

The discs may be flanged 13 at their periphery and the bosses may be extended downwardly as shown in Fig. 2 or upwardly as shown in the other views of the drawing and the articles I4 may be hung on the wire. 0

I do not wish to be limited to the details as herein disclosed which are given to illustrate my invention as I may wish to depart therefrom within the scope of the appended claims which set forth my invention.

I claim:

1. In a display device, a wire of springy material formed substantially to a circle, a disc and a plurality of apertured bosses annularly ar- 5 ranged on the upper surface of said disc having m terial formed substantially to a circle, a disc and a plurality of apertured bosses annularly arranged on the upper surface of said disc having their periphery partly cut out of said disc and the uncut portion bent perpendicularly upward from said disc to receive said wire, said wire having its ends free and overlapped and held in.

one of said bosses, said free ends pressing against the top surface of said disc when said wire is raised upwardly between said boss and adjacent bosses.

DAVID W. DUNBERG.

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