Display materials, accessories therefor and methods

Abstract

A kit of components for use with a pin permeable board, the kit of components comprising a pin suitable for penetrating the pin permeable board for frictional engagement with the pin permeable board; and a magnet; further wherein the pin has a gripping handle, the gripping handle having a magnet attractive top surface configured to receive the magnet; whereby the magnet can be attached to the gripping handle by magnetic force thereby to allow an object to be displayed to be secured to the gripping handle between the handle and the magnet, and wherein the magnet remains in position on the gripping handle by magnetic attraction through the object when the pin is engaged in a vertically disposed pin permeableboard.

1 . A kit of components for use with a pin permeable board, the kit of components comprising:
 a pin suitable for penetrating the pin permeable board for frictional engagement with the pin permeable board; and   a magnet;   further wherein the pin has a gripping handle, the gripping handle having a magnet attractive top surface configured to receive the magnet; whereby the magnet can be attached to the gripping handle by magnetic force thereby to allow an object to be displayed to be secured to the gripping handle between the handle and the magnet, and wherein the magnet remains in position on the gripping handle by magnetic attraction through the object when the pin is engaged in a vertically disposed pin permeableboard.   
     
     
         2 . A pushpin comprising:
 a pin suitable for penetrating a pin permeable object for frictional engagement with the pin permeable object;   a gripping handle on the pin;   the gripping handle having a pin permeable surface so that another pin can be inserted into the handle thereby to allow an object to be displayed to be secured between the gripping handle and the other pin.   
     
     
         3 . A magnet comprising:
 a first magnetic material;   a second material attached to the first magnetic material, the second material being permeable to a pin for frictional engagement of the pin, whereby the first magnetic material can be attracted to a magnet attractive surface and a pushpin can be inserted into the second material to hold an object to be displayed between the second material and the pushpin.   
     
     
         4 . A pushpin comprising:
 a pin suitable for penetrating a pin permeable object, the object having a magnet attractive attribute;   a magnet disposed attached to and adjacent the pin;   whereby the pushpin allows securement of an object to be displayed to the pin permeable object by both the frictional engagement of the pin in the pin permeable object and magnetic attraction by the magnet attractive attribute.   
     
     
         5 . The pushpin of  claim 4 , wherein the magnet surrounds the pin. 
     
     
         6 . The pushpin of  claim 4 , further comprising a housing for the pin, the magnet being disposed in a recess in the housing. 
     
     
         7 . The pushpin of  claim 6 , further comprising a plurality of pins in the housing. 
     
     
         8 . The pushpin of  claim 6 , wherein the housing is pin permeable to allow at least one other pin to be inserted into the housing to allow display of objects held by said at least one other pin. 
     
     
         9 . A magnet comprising:
 a magnet;   an adhesive disposed on at least one surface of the magnet; whereby the magnet may be adhered with the adhesive to a nonmagnetic or nonmagnet attractive object to allow the object to be secured to a magnet attractive surface.   
     
     
         10 . The magnet of  claim 9 , wherein the adhesive comprises an adhesive releasably attached to a substrate. 
     
     
         11 . The magnet of  claim 10 , wherein the substrate comprises a sheet of material. 
     
     
         12 . The magnet of  claim 11 , further comprising a plurality of magnets releasably attached by adhesive to said sheet of material.