Title: Composite units for displaying merchandise

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1. A display assembly comprising a rack, a hook member having a free end mounted to said rack, said rack including a plurality of transverse overcut notches therein, each notch having a pair of holes therein for receiving therein a pair of said hook members, said hook members being oppositely oriented, a safety bumper guard connected to said rack and extending beyond the free ends of said hook members to prevent puncture wounds caused by an encounter with said hook members, said rack having a longitudinal overcut notch located at each end of said rack, each said longitudinal notch having a hole therein for receiving therein said safety bumper guard, a sleeve, said sleeve having at least one laterally extending nub, a collar disposed on said rack, said collar being mounted on said sleeve for slidably mounting said rack on said sleeve, said collar having a bottom surface and having at least one lower slot corresponding to said nub formed therein, said nub being registrable in said slot when said collar is mounted on said sleeve and said collar having a top surface having at least one upper slot formed therein for thereby nesting a second sleeve into said collar until the laterally extending nub thereof nests with said upper slot.

2. A display assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said collar is slidably overfitted onto said sleeve and an end of said sleeve terminates within said collar when said nub engages said lower slot.

3. A display assembly as claimed in claim 1, and further including a plurality of axially extending ribs located within said collar for concentrically aligning said collar on said sleeve and frictionally inhibiting any sway in said rack on said sleeve.

4. A display assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said collar has diametrically opposed lower and upper slots for engagement with nubs on mating sleeves.

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Inventors: Hochman, Arthur (Union City, NJ, US)

Application Number: 660757
Filing Date: 1976-02-24
Publication_date: 1978-09-19
Assignee: Art-Phyl Creations (Newark, NJ)
Primary Class(es): 211/57.1 211/59.1, 211/107, 248/159
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

262908	Aug, 1882	Philbrick	211/166.
341806	May, 1886	Hitchcock et al.	211/57.
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3939985	Feb, 1976	Hochman	211/57.

Other Refs: 1,571,3822,206,067

May, 1969	FR
Aug, 1973	DE

Primary Examiner: Holko, Thomas J.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Blum, Moscovitz, Friedman & Kaplan