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Abstract

A sign assembly has a frame surrounding an aperture, and a sheet of flexible sign material has a main portion stretched across the aperture and an end portion secured to the frame. The frame has a lip member defining the aperture, the lip member having a free end over which the flexible sign sheet passes, the frame also having a U-shaped channel portion rearwardly of the lip member and receiving an end portion of the sign sheet. A mounting bar extends longitudinally within the U-shaped channel, and the sheet end portion is wrapped, around the mounting bar. A series of spaced U-shaped resilient clips retain the mounting bar and wrapped around sheet end portion therein. The U-shaped channel has at least one wall with a plurality of longitudinally-extending shoulders which face in a rearward direction from the lip member. Each clip is snappingly engageable with successive shoulders in the channel to enable the flexible sign sheet to be tensioned by pushing the clips with the mounting bar and wrapped around sheet end portion retained therein rearwardly in the channel to cause the clip to snappingly engage successive shoulders until the sheet is suitably tensioned.

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