Art storing and displaying panels for art display vehicles

Claim 1

A panel for removably mounting framed pictorial art selections of diverse sizes at random locations thereon for storage and display purposes, with the art selections each comprising a frame to which the pictorial art is secured, said panel comprising: a plurality of horizontally disposed elongate rectilinear elements fixed together in parallel coplanar closely spaced relation in which adjacent of said elements are uniformly spaced apart to define operating ways of substantially uniform width therebetween, said elements defining front and rear sides of the panel, and means operable in selected of said operating ways for cooperation with the sides of the art frames for securing the frames to the panel at random positions along said operating ways, said securing means for each of the respective selected ways comprising a pair of bolt devices positioned in and proportioned to be freely movable along the respective selected operating ways and including means for engaging the individual pictorial art frames when a pictorial art frame is placed against the panel front side and means for releasably tensioning the respective bolt devices against one or more of those of said elements that define the operating ways in which said bolt devices are respectively received for making said bolt devices and the art frame fast to the panel, said engaging means of said bolt devices each comprising: a holding clip member for each bolt on the front side of the panel and overlying the operating way in which the respective bolt devices are respectively received, said clip members of each pair of bolt devices being directed toward each other and formed to engage the sides of a pictorial art frame placed against the panel front side and clamp the pictorial art frame against the panel front side when said bolt devices pair is tensioned, said bolt devices also each including a backing means at the rear side of said panel and formed to anchor against said one or more panel elements for resisting the action of said bolt device tensioning means when the pictorial art frame is made fast to the panel, whereby said bolt devices of the respective pairs of bolt devices may be disposed one adjacent each end of the respective selected ways to receive between them a pictorial art frame disposed in random positioning relative to said panel front side against said front side of said panel over one or more of said selected ways, and said bolt devices of said one or more of said covered selected ways, when released for said free movement along such ways may be moved into engagement with the respective sides of the art frame and tensioned to make the art frame fast to the panel in said random positioning, and when said bolt devices are tensioned, said bolt devices have a purchase against movement, longitudinally of their respective ways, both at the pictorial art frame they engage and at the rear side of said panel.