Configurable display holding apparatus and system
A display holding apparatus includes a base, a vertical member, and a bracket. The vertical member is attachable to the base in one of two different orientations to form a stand. The bracket is attachable to the vertical member of the stand in one of four different orientations. The four different bracket orientations includes a low landscape orientation, a high landscape orientation, a low portrait orientation, and a high portrait orientation. A display is attachable to the bracket in one of the four bracket orientations. In an embodiment, the base is mounted on a top surface of a transaction terminal.
1 . A display holding apparatus, comprising:
a base;
a vertical member attachable and detachable to the base in first orientations;
a stand comprising the vertical member attached to the base in a certain first orientation; and
a bracket attachable and detachable to the vertical member of the stand along a first side of the bracket in second orientations, wherein the bracket, along a second side, is adapted to hold a display in a certain second orientation;
wherein first orientations comprise a front orientation and a back orientation, wherein the front orientation includes the vertical member being attached closer to a front edge of the base than that which is associated with the back orientation;
wherein the base includes three pairs of screw holes, a first pair of screw holes associated with the front orientation, a second pair of screw holes associated with the back orientation, and a third pair of screw holes associated with both the front orientation and the back orientation.
2 . The display holding apparatus of claim 1 further comprising, a display cover adapted to fit over a periphery of the display and snap onto a portion of the bracket.
3 . The display holding apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the base comprises an aperture adapted to allow at least one cord associated with the display to pass through the aperture to one or more of a power supply and a device.
4 . The display holding apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second orientations includes a first height landscape orientation for any attached display, a second height landscape orientation that is higher than the first height landscape orientation, a first height portrait orientation for any attached display, and a second height portrait orientation that his higher than the first height portrait orientation.
5 . The display holding apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the vertical member of the stand includes slots.
6 . The display holding apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the first side of the bracket includes a plurality of tabs.
7 . The display holding apparatus of claim 6 , wherein a given pair of the plurality of tabs are configured to be inserted into the slots to form a given second orientation.
8 . The display holding apparatus of claim 7 , wherein at least one pair of the plurality of tabs align for insertion into the slots when the bracket is rotated 90 degrees from an original vertical orientation of the bracket.