Jukebox display unit

Claim 1

A display unit for the selections available for heating on a jukebox, comprising: a housing adapted for mounting to a jukebox and including a transparent front face; a plurality of frames interchangeably supporting graphic displays of available selections, each frame having a tab thereon; spaced and substantially parallel shafts slanted rearwardly in the housing; means for pivotally attaching one of the frames to each of a plurality of the shafts to that the tabs on the frames attached to the shafts are laterally spaced from each other; a track extending substantially horizontally; a slide member; means for attaching the slide member to the track for substantially horizontal sliding movement relative to the track; a knob carrying a rearwardly projecting finger; means for mounting the knob to the slide member for movement relative to the slide member in a rearward and forward direction between a tab engagement position and a tab release position, respectively, said finger on the knob situated in overlapping relationship in a fore and aft direction with a plurality of said frame tabs with the knob in said tab engagement position, and said finger situated forwardly of the plurality of said frame tabs with the knob in the tab release position so that the knob can be slid along the track without interference between the knob finger and any of the plurality of tabs when in the tab release position; and means for baising the knob to the release position, whereby a user can slide the knob horizontally without engagement between the knob finger and tabs until the knob is in front of a desired selection and thereafter urge the knob rearwardly against the biasing means to place the finger and a tab on the desired selection in fore and aft overlapping relationship and slide the knob horizontally to engage the knob finger with the tab and thereby pivot the frame supporting the desired selection to examine the desired selection.