Frame assembly for signs

Claim 1

A frame assembly for removably retaining a sheet material sign about peripheries thereof comprising: first and second upright means each having one portion configured for removable insertion into supporting terrain, each having another portion disposed upwardly from said one portion formed of angle stock having elongate flanges mutually integrally associated to exhibit internally disposed surfaces defining an internal angle therebetween extending from an internal apex; first and second mutually spaced and parallel cross-member assemblies each having termini rigidly connected with said first and second upright means, configured to retain said first and second upright means one and other portions in mutually spaced parallel relationship and retaining at least said other, upwardly disposed, portions in orientations wherein said internal angles thereof are arranged in mutually facing relationship symmetrically disposed about a plane extending in common between the said internal apexes of said spaced first and second upright means other portions, said first cross-member assembly being positioned between said first and second upright means respective other portions at or substantially near the upwardly disposed ends thereof and comprising a first bar member, the oppositely disposed ends of which are rigidly joined with corresponding mutually opposite said internally disposed surfaces at positions thereon spaced from corresponding said apexes; said one portion being fashioned having a first tip configured for insertion within said terrain and extending along a given axis therefrom a select length to a base support portion extending normally to said axis a select distance to a second tip, said internally disposed surfaces of said base support portion being normally upwardly disposed when said first tip portion is inserted within said terrain; said other portion associated with said one portion being coplanar with and parallel to said given axis and rigidly coupled with said one portion second tip; and said second cross-member assembly comprising a bar member, the oppositely disposed ends of which are rigidly joined with the said one portion angle stock along the apexes of the internal angle exhibited by the internally disposed surfaces thereof at respective locations spaced from said base support portion, said section cross-member bar member and that portion of each said one portion angle stock extending to a respective said base support portion providing a three-edge periheral support for at least a second said sheet material sign.