Merchandise display device

Claim 1

A mechanical display device comprising connector means, a support therefor, and a rack having a plurality of support arms carried by said connector means, said connector means having at least one connector element with a central bore therein and a plurality of circumferentially disposed apertured portions, said support having a portion thereof extending into and interengaged with said central bore for supporting said connector element, said support arms being supportably interengaged with said respective apertured portions, whereby said arms are operatively supported by said support and connector element, said connector means having a plurality of identically shaped and proportioned connector elements, said rack comprising a plurality of sets of said support arms, one of said sets being an inner set and the other seTs being outer sets, said first-mentioned connector element being centrally positioned, certain of the other of said connector elements being outwardly and circumferentially disposed with respect to said first-mentioned connector element, the apertured portions of said first-mentioned connector element being in operative supporting engagement with the inner terminals of the arms of said inner set, the outer terminals of said latter arms being supportingly interengaged with the respective bores of corresponding ones of said outwardly positioned connector elements, the support arms of said respective outer sets being supportably interengaged with the respective apertured portions of correspondingly positioned ones of said outwardly disposed connector elements, whereby the arms of all of said outer sets are adapted to support selected items of merchandise in circumferential relation to their respective coactively positioned connector elements, all of said outer sets being in circumferential relation to said centrally positioned connector element.