Means for displaying articles in shingled relationship

Claim 1

A display device for holding flat articles in shingled relationship comprising: a pair of suspension uprights, each suspension upright having a plurality of spaced apart holes, holes in each of the said suspension uprights being at the same elevation and facing one another in pairs; a support upright; a tie member joining said uprights in a vertical array, said suspension uprights being laterally spaced apart from one another, and said support upright being spaced from both of said suspension uprights and spaced to the rear of them by a given distance from a line drawn between them; and a plurality of rack members each comprising a base member, a hook on said rack member adjacent to the lower edge thereof to restrain an article resting on the rack member from sliding off, and a stiffly flexible cross member, said base member, hook and cross member being joined together to form an integral structure, said cross member being attachable to the suspension uprights by being flexed and its ends inserted into a pair of said holes, one in each of said suspension uprights, each said cross member including a pair of bends, one reverse to the other, at each end permitting the entry of the end of the cross member into a hole in the suspension upright when flexed in one direction, and inhibiting its removal when the cross member is unflexed or is flexed in the opposite direction, the rack member having a width greater than said given distance, whereby at least one of said rack members, when its cross member is attached to the suspension uprights, leans in abutment rearwardly and downwardly against the support upright and being freely pivotable without engagement to the support upright except in said leaning abutment.