US1301620A - Advertising or signaling apparatus. - Google Patents

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ADVERTISING OR SIGNALING APPARATUS.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, ijil.

Application led August 11, 191'?. Serial No. 185,635.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. TA'rosIAN, a subject of the King of Armenia, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising or Signaling Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates, generally, to improvements in signaldisplayingor advertising devices; and, the present invention has reference, more particularly, to a novel construction of signal-displaying or advertising device, comprising a suitably shaped box, casing, or frame-work, in which are suitably mounted a plurality of aprons, said aprons having movements in opposite directions and independent of each other, and said aprons carrying display-signals or advertisements in the form of words, pictorial representations, or the like.

The present invention has for its principal objects to provide a novel and simply constructed signal-displaying or advertising device provided with a plurality of independently moving display-aprons, and suitable mechanism for intermittently moving said aprons back and forth in a reciprocatory manner, directly back of a display-window or opening, and then after a time-interval moving other portions of the aprons forwardly into position back of the said display-window or opening, for similar reciprocatory movements and the consequent displaying of another signal, advertisement or pictorial representation of an object or ob- `ects. J The invention has for its further object to so arrange and move the several displayaprons that any pictorial arrangement thereon will receive an animated appearance, as in the case of the representation of a flag, the latter will seem to be waving.

@ther objects of the present invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

With the various objects of the present invention in view, the said invention consists, primarily, in the novel signal-displaying or advertising device hereinafter set forth; and, the present invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in detail in the following specification and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim, which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation of the signal-displaying or advertising device, with a portion of the front of the casing represented as being broken away, so as to illustrate in elevation a portion of the mechanism for actuating the display aprons or belts in the manner heretofore stated.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the box or casing of the device, illustrated in connection therewith in inside elevation, the general arrangement of the display-aprons or belts and the mechanism for actuating said aprons or belts.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional representation of the device, said section being taken on liiie 3-3 in said Fig. 1; and Fig. AI is a detail vertical representation of certain parts of the mechanism, said section being taken on line 4 4 in said Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow e.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the said above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said figures of the drawings, the reference-character l indicates, in the present instance, a casing or boX of any suitable size, shape and material, the said easing or boX comprising -a base 2, sides 3 and 4, back 5, top 6, and front 7, said frontbeing provided with a suitable display opening or window, as 8.

Suitably mounted within said box or casing, in any desirable manner, is a frame comprising a pair of uprights or standards 9 and 10. Said standards or uprights are provided with suitably disposed holes or perforations in which are journaled the respective end-portions of a plurality of spindles or shafts 11, each shaft or spindle being formed with or having suitably mounted thereon an enlarged cylindrical portion or leo i roller, as 12. At one end, each shaft or spindle 11 is also provided with a toothed wheel or pinion 13, the several pinions upon the several shafts or spindles being in mesh with each other, substantially as represented in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Directly back of the front 7 of the box or casing 1, and suitably secured upon the inner faces of the sides 3 and 4, are suitable frame-plates, as 14, connected by means of laterally extending rods 15, or the like, and upon which are rotatably mounted suitable cylinders or rollers 16. The reference-character 17 indicates a series of display-aprons or belts, each apron or belt, as will be seen from an inspection of said Fig. 2, passing over a roller 12 and over a pair of oppositely located cylinders or rollers 16.

Also rotatably mounted between the said uprights or standards 9 and 10 is another shaft or spindle 18, carrying upon its one end-portion a toothed wheel or pinion 19 which is in mesh with the lowerpinion 13, as shownin Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. Suitably secured in a proper location upon said shaft or spindle 18, by means of a pin 20 or other means, is a toothed wheel or gear 21, said wheel or gear being formed upon the face of its hub-portion 22 with ratchet-teeth 23.

The said shaft or spindle 18 has also fixed thereon, by means of a pin 24 or other suitable fastening means, a sleeve or collar 25, and loosely mounted upon ,said shaft or spindle 18, is another toothed wheel or gear 26 which is formed upon the face of its hub-portion 27 with ratchet-teeth 28 adapted to engage with the ratchet-teeth 23 of the toothed wheel or gear 21 in the manner and for the purposes to be presently more fully described. Engagement of the said ratchet-teeth 28 with the ratchet-teeth 23 is caused by the arrangement of a helical spring 29 which is mounted upon that portion of the shaft or spindle 18 located between the sleeve or collar 25 and the hubportion 3() of the toothed Wheel or gear 26.

Non-rotatably connected with the upright or standard 9, at its one end, is a laterally extending cylindrical rod, as 3,1, having its other end-portion carried by a standard or pedestal 32, suitably mounted upon the base 2 of the box or casing 1. 'Securely fixed upon the said rod 31 by means of pins 33 and 34, or other fastening means, are a pair of collars or sleeves 35 and 36. Loosely and rotatably mounted upon said rod 31, contiguous to the sleeve 35, is a gear or sprocket-wheel 37 which has upon its hubportion 38 a laterally extending projection or finger 39. Loosly mounted upon said rod 31, so as to slide or move sidewise upon said rod, and also so as to be capable of oscillation upon said rod, is a disk or wheel, as 40, formed with peripheral gear-teeth 41 adapted to be brought into time-related mesh with the teeth of the gears 21 and 26, in the manner and for the purposes hereinafter more fully described.

As indicated in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the said rod 31 is provided with a channel or groove 42, in which is slidably disposed a key 43 of a cam-shaped element or sleeve, as 44, having its vertical face 45 in frictional contact with the face of the hubportion 46 of the disk or wheel 40, against the counter-action of a helical spring 47 mounted upon the rod 31 between the collar or sleeve 36 and the said disk or wheel 40, and having its cam-surface 48 in contact with the previously-mentioned projection or linger 39 of the gear or sprocket-wheel 37. Projecting from the side of the said disk or wheel 40, at the proper location, is a projection or pin 49 formed with an enlargement or head 50.

Referring now to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, it will be seen that the bottom 2 of the box or casing 1 is provided with a pair of pedestals or standards 51 and 52 formed with bearing portions 53 in which is rotatably mounted a shaft or spindle 54, said shaft or spindle having suitably mount` ed thereon a worm wheel 55. ln mesh with said worm-wheel 55 is a worm 56 carried upon the shaft or spindle 58 of an electric motor, as 57, or other suitably-driven element for driving the said shaft or spindle 54. Secured upon said power-driven shaft or spindle 54 is a sprocket-wheel 59 overwhich and` the previously mentioned sprocketwheel 37 passes a drive or link-chain, as 60. Suitably affixed upon said shaft or spindle 54 is a crank or disk 61 having a projection or pin 62 formed with an enlargement o r head 63. Mounted upon the said projections or pins 49 and 62 of the respective elements 40 and 61, are the respective eye- portions 65 and 66 of a suitably constructed connecting rod or link, as 64.

Having in the foregoing clearly set forth the general arrangement and construction of the several devices and parts comprising my novel advertising or signaling device, I will now briefly set forth its operation for actuating the display aprons or belts for the purposes previously stated.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawings, it will be seen that the disk or wheel 40 is in mesh with the gear or pinion 26. Now, in starting the motor 57 the result will be that the shaft or spindle 54 is revolved, causing the sprocket wheel 59 and the crank or disk 61 to also revolve with the said shaft or spindle 54. At the same time, the link-chain 60 will actuate the gear or sprocket-wheel 37, which is loosely mounted upon the fixed rod 31. The rotary motion of the crank or disk 61, at this time, by means of the link or connecting rod 64, produces a sufficient movement of the disk or wheel 40, so that the gear or pinion 26 is 'correspondingly actuated, which owing to the intermeshing relation of the ratchetteeth 28 with the ratchet-teeth 23 of the gear or pinion 21, causes the shaft or spindle 18 upon which said gear or pinion is secured to revolve, as will be clearly evident. Owing to this rotary action of the shaft or spindle 18, the toothed wheel or gear 19 which is also secured upon said shaft or spindle 18 will correspondingly cause the proper actuation of the several toothed wheels or pinions 13, in the directions of the several arrows w, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. As long as the wheel or disk 10 is in actual mesh with the toothed wheel or pinion 26, the several belts or aprons 17 will move in the direction of the several arrows y, also as indicated in said Fig. 2. During the roe tary motion oi' the sprocket-wheel, the engagement and action of the projection or finger 39 with the cam-surface L18 of the cam-element la is such, and has been timed in such a manner, that -the element i4 slides upon the rod 31 from lett to right, whereby at the proper time the teeth of the disk 10' are forced out of mesh with the teeth of the pinion 26, and into active engagement with the teeth of the pinion 21, the action taking place against the compression of the coils of the spring1 47. The rotary action of the crank or disk G1, owing to the connection of the rod or link 6d therewith and and with the disk a0 produces, as will be clearly understood, reciprocatory rotary movements or' the pinions or gears 19 and 13, and corresponding reciprocatory movements or" the several belts or aprons 17. The

contact or engagement of the said projection or finger 39 with the cam-surface 4S of the cam-element 1d is such that the recipro catory movements of the said belts or aprons 17 take place for a longer time than the direct movements of the said belts or aprons in the direction of the arrows y, the action of said projection or finger 39 with the cam# element 44C and of the spring 117, causing alternately and intermittently the intermeshing action of t-he disk d0 with the pinions 21 and 2G, so as to produce alternately and intermittently the reciprocatory and direct novements of the several belts or aprons 17.

From the foregoing description of the present invention it will be clearly seen that a simply constructed and eiectively operating device has been produced, which may be used for advertising or signaling purposes, and in which the belts or aprons are actuated in anmanner so as to present animated advertisements or pictorial representations, either for advertising or signaling purposes, and then after a certain time-interval, the belts or aprons being moved to present to the eye other portions of the belts or aprons for the display of a different advertisement, picture, or signaling display.

Ot course 1 am aware that changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction oli' the said parts, without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the foregoing specification, and as dened in the clauses of the claim which are appended to the said specification. Hence, 1 do not limit my present invention to the eXact arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts as described in the said specification, nor do I coniine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I claim 1. An advertising or signaling device comprising a body having a display-portion, a plurality of rollers mounted in said body, a plurality of display-aprons movably mounted upon said rollers, a set of intermeshing pinions mounted upon journal-por tions of said rollers, a cranlnactuated mechanism in engagement with said set of interineshing pinions for producing reciprocatory movements of said pinions and the said aprons back of the display-portion of the body.

2. An advertising or signaling device comprising a body having a displayportion, a plurality of rollers mounted in said body, a plurality of display-aprons movably mounted upon said rollers, a set of intermeshing pinions mounted upon journal-por tions of said rollers, a crank-actuated mechanism in engagement with said set of intermeshing pinions for producing reciprocatory movements of said pinions and the said aprons back of the display-portion of the body, during a certain period of time, said crank-mechanism cooperating with said pinion for producing at other times direct movements of the said aprons back of the display portion of the body.

3.11111 advertising or signaling device vcoimi'rising a body having a display portion,

a plurality of rollers mounted in said body, a plurality of display-aprons movably mounted upon said rollers, a set of internieshing pinions mounted upon j ournal-portions of said rollers, a main driving shaft within said body, a sprocket-wheel upon said shaft, a non-rotatable rod within said body, a sprocket-wheel loosely and rotatably mounted upon said rod, a link-chain mounted upon said sprocket-wheels, a crank-disk Y mounted upon said main driving shaft, a spring-controlled toothed disk loosely mounted upon said rod, a link connecting said crank-disk with said toothed disk, a cam-element slidably mounted upon said rod, a projection extending from the sprocket-Wheel upon said rod in engagement with said cam-element, an auxiliary shaft, a pinion secured in a fixed position upon said auxiliary-shaft, a second pinion loosely mounted upon said auxiliary shaft, aratehetlike means of Connection between Said pinions, and a third pinion also secured in a fixed position upon said auxiliary shaft7 said last-mentioned pinion being in mesh With said set of intei'n'ieshing pinions, substanl0 tially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony, that l claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hancl this Qthday of August, 1917.

CHARLES M. TATOSIAN.

Witnesses:

FREDK C. FRAENTZEL, FREDK H. W. FRAENTZEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner o1' Patent, Washington, D. G.

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