Signs

Claim 1

A FASTENING DEVICE FOR AN INDICIA WHICH COMPRISES: (A) AN INDICIA HAVING AN SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT BODY PORTION BOUNDED AT THE EDGES BY REARWARDLY EXTEDNING FLANGE MEANS, (B) SAID FLANGE MEANS DEFINING A SHALLOW DESPRESSION AREA AT THE REAR OF SAID INDICIA, (C) A SHALLOW BRACKET WHICH IS SECURABLE WITHIN SAID DEPRESSION AREA TO THE REAR FACE OF SAID INDICIA, (D) SAID BRACKET EXTENDING FROM THE SAID REAR FACE UP TO NO MORE THAN THE LIMITING EDGE OF SAID FLANGE, (E) SAID BRACKET DEFINING A POCKET-LIKE RECESS WITH ONE SIDE THEREOF OPEN, (F) AN OPENING AT THE REAR OF SAID BRACKET COMMUNICATING WITH SAID POCKET-LIKE RECESS, (G) SAID BRACKET HAVING A RESILIENT TANG EXTENDING INTO AND THROUGH SAID OPENING AND INTO SAID POCKET-LIKE RECESS AND EXTENDING TOWARD SAID REAR FACE OF SAID INDICIA, AND (H) A CONNECTING MEMBER HAVING A FOOT ELEMENT WHICH CAN BE SET ADJACENT TO AND PARALLEL TO SAID REAR FACE OF SAID INDICIA AND CAN THEN BE MOVED PARALLEL TO SAID REAR FACE OF SAID INDICIA THROUGH SAID OPEN SIDE OF SAID POCKET-LIKE RECESS AND INTO SAID POCKET-LIKE RECESS, (I) SAID FOOT ELEMENT HAVING A TANG-RETAINING MEANS IN REGISTER WITH THE FREE END OF SAID TANG WHENEVER SAID FOOT ELEMENT IS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID RECESS, (J) SAID FREE END OF SAID TANG ENGAGING SAID TANG-RETAINING MEANS TO PREVENT ACCIDENTIAL SEPARATION OF SAID CONNECTING MEMBER FROM SAID INDICIA, (K) SAID CONNECTING MEMBER HAVING A SHANK WHICH IS ANGULARLY DISPLACED FROM AND WHICH EXTENDS REARWARDLY FROM SAID FOOT ELEMENT, AND HENCE FROM SAID BRACKET AND FROM SAID REAR FACE OF SAID INDICIA, TO DISPOSE THE OUTER END OF SAID CONNECTING MEMBER REARWARDLY OF SAID FOOT ELEMENT AND SAID BRACKET.