Modular display device

Claim 1

A modular display device comprising: a base member having extending upwardly therefrom a cylindrical projection having therein axial slots defining inwardly deformable projection portions each having at the upper end thereof an outwardly extending flange; a plurality of modular members stacked vertically above said base member, the lowermost said modular member having therein a central hole of a diameter approximately equal to the outer diameter of said projection, said projection portions being deformable inwardly to enable said lowermost modular member to be assembled onto said base member with said projection extending through said central hole, said projection portions deforming outwardly after said lowermost modular member is assembled onto said base member, said flanges thereafter preventing unintentional removal of said lowermost modular member from said base member; each said modular member having equally circumferentially spaced therearound a plurality of radially outwardly extending arms, each said arm including a bottom wall and two opposite side walls defining a product receiving space, each side wall forming a dihedral angle with the adjacent side wall of the adjacent arm, each pair of side walls defining a dihedral angle being joined at the tops thereof by a triangular element, each said triangular element having a free edge with a notch therein, each said arm having depending downwardly therefrom a tongue element; said tongue elements of each said modular member being received in said notches of the next lower modular member, each said modular member being circumferentially angularly displaced with respect to the next lower modular member, said notches being positioned and dimensioned such that the receipt therein of the tongue elements of the next upper modular member rigidly fixes together the respective said modular members; and an upper member having depending downwardly therefrom a plurality of tongue elements which fit and are received in the notches of the uppermost of said modular members.