A display device - Patent 1387335

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EP 1 387 335 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	15.12.2004 Bulletin 2004/51

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	04.02.2004 Bulletin 2004/06

(21)	Application number: 03254799.4

(22)	Date of filing: 31.07.2003

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: G09F 11/29

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK

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Priority:

31.07.2002 GB 0217678

(71)	Applicant: Keymite Ltd.
	Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5HT (GB)

(72)	Inventor:
	Gray, Richard John Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5HT (GB)

(74)	Representative: Stanley, Michael Gordon
	Michael Stanley & Co., P.O. Box 270 Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5YY Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5YY (GB)

(54)	A display device

(57) A display device comprising a holder (23) having at least one display window (24) with a respective elongate flexible strip (10) bearing characters (11) for display in the window (24). The strip (10) has longitudinal edges (12,13) having a plurality of spaced elongate notches(14) extending longitudinally along one edge (13) at regular intervals, and the window (24) has a side (34) with a lug (33) thereon which is engagable with said notches (14) when a repeat unit of the strip is correctly positioned in the window (24). The strip (10) is transversely moveable within the window (24) to disengage the lug (33) from a notch (14).

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