Display units with socket-mounted standards

Claim 1

A merchandising display unit comprising a horizontal base with horizontal frame members on opposite sides of the base and connected by a plurality of cross frame members, at least one of said cross frame members being a pair of elongated sheets or boards arranged in a contiguous but horizontally spaced, parallel pair, each pair having horizontally spaced, opposed faces lying in respective substantially vertical planes, a pair of opposed, vertically extending grooves each having a vertical bottom wall and planar vertical side walls in said respective opposed faces to provide a vertical socket, a standard-mounting unit embodying a plate having two spaced flanges depending from a horizontal cross wall, said flanges respectively lying against the outermost sides of respective sheets or boards of said pair to hold said sheets or boards together as a pair unit, said horizontal cross wall having a rectangular hole therein positioned substantially midway between said flanges with two opposite edges of said hole being at right angles to said flanges, a metal strap member secured to said horizontal cross wall, said strap member having two, vertical, flat strap legs respectively directly below said respective two opposite edges, said strap legs being at substantially right angles to said flanges, said strap member being seated in said socket with the side edges of said strap legs lying against the respective side walls of said grooves, and a vertical standard having a lower end of substantially rectangular, overall transverse cross section extending downwardly through said rectangular hole with one pair of opposed sides of said lower end lying against and snugly supported by said strap legs and the other pair of opposed sides lying against and supported by said bottom walls of said opposed grooves.