EP0508729B1 - Encadrement pour un panneau d'affichage - Google Patents

Encadrement pour un panneau d'affichage Download PDF

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EP0508729B1
EP0508729B1 EP19920303081 EP92303081A EP0508729B1 EP 0508729 B1 EP0508729 B1 EP 0508729B1 EP 19920303081 EP19920303081 EP 19920303081 EP 92303081 A EP92303081 A EP 92303081A EP 0508729 B1 EP0508729 B1 EP 0508729B1
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Roger Nevil Gibbins
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F15/00—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like
    • G09F15/0006—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like planar structures comprising one or more panels
    • G09F15/0012—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like planar structures comprising one or more panels frames therefor

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  • This invention relates to the framing of signs, for example using extruded aluminum frame members.
  • Display panels especially those bearing indicia as advertisements, frequently benefit from being framed.
  • a frame confer aesthetic benefits, it also provides a considerable degree of mechanical stability, and can allow a point or points for attachment of the framed display panel to a suitable support.
  • a known frame for such an application necessitates manual folding of a metallic flange of a frame member over the edge of the display panel. This is a time-consuming operation, and one that tends to lead to unsightly mechanical damage to the display panel or its frame in the hands of an unskilled or impatient worker.
  • US 4727183 discloses a modular framing system for a display panel having side and corner peripheral frame members that join end-to-end and have a channel to receive the panel.
  • the frame members are held together by threaded connectors.
  • DE-U-8802578 discloses a picture frame in which framing strips running along each side of a picture are held together by corner pieces that interact with channels in the strips. The picture is then hung using cord stretched between holes in the corner pieces.
  • a framing system for framing a display panel comprising side and corner peripheral frame members and connecting means for joining the frame members end-to-end, each frame member comprising a channel to receive an edge of a display panel and one or more connecting channels with inturned lips, the connecting means fitting and being securable within said connecting channels of adjacent frame members so as to bridge the two frame members when placed in end-to-end abutment, some at least of the side frame members, but preferably not the corner frame members, being also provided with mounting channels with inturned lips opening rearwardly with respect to the panel.
  • the mounting channels could also constitute the connecting channels, but preferably separate connecting channels are provided adjacent the panel-receiving channels.
  • the framing system may also include a strengthening frame member, which may be attached to the rear of the display panel with or without additional attachment to the peripheral frame members.
  • This strengthening member may also be shaped so as to provide a further said mounting channel.
  • the strengthening frame member has the same cross-section as the corner or side frame members but without the panel-receiving channel.
  • the strengthening member may be joined to a peripheral frame member by a connecting means secured in connecting channels of the strengthening and peripheral frame members.
  • the connecting means between frame members may comprise a bar which slides lengthways into the aligned connecting channels of mutually abutting peripheral frame members and can be secured therein by any convenient means such as adhesive, crimping of the channels, or both.
  • the connecting means may comprise nuts and bolts, the bolt heads or nuts being capable of fitting slidably but non-rotatably in the connecting channels and whose shanks project through the mouths of the channels for securing a connecting plate which bridges the adjacent frame members.
  • This latter type of connecting means could also be used to join the strengthening member to the adjacent frame member, the connecting plate being an angle-bracket.
  • a sign comprising a sign panel framed by a framing system as described above.
  • the sign panel may conveniently be secured within the panel-receiving channels of the peripheral frame members by adhesive.
  • the strengthening frame member may also be conveniently secured to the reverse face of the sign by adhesive.
  • the sign may be mounted to a suitable support such as one or more mounting posts by conventional mounting devices which locate within the mounting channels of the frame members. Such mounting devices are well known in the art, and may be for example, as described in patents GB1416734, GB1511145 and GB1533412.
  • a frame member for a sign comprising an extrusion for attachment to a panel and having one or more connecting channels with inturned lips, and either or both of:
  • the corner frame member 10 is an aluminum extrusion having a channel to receive the edge of the sign panel (see Fig. 5), and two connecting channels 18, each of which is restricted by inturned lips 20. Beyond the connecting channels the frame member is provided with an extension 21 having an inturned lip 23.
  • the side frame member 12 shown in Fig. 2 is similar, except that beyond the connecting channels 18 it has a mounting channel 22 restricted by inturned lips 24 and opening in the direction away from the connecting channels.
  • the outer side wall of the mounting channel 22 matches the extension 21 of the corner frame member shown in Fig 1.
  • a typical frame produced using this system will consist of side frame members 12 on the four sides of the panel, four corner members 10, and normally eight connecting means 14. In situations where additional rigidity in the frame is required up to sixteen connecting means 14 may be used.
  • the channels 16 of side frame members 12 are slide over the edges of the sign panel 40 (see Fig. 5).
  • Each side frame member 12 will be abutted at both of its ends by a corner member 10, similarly slid onto the panel, and connected to the adjacent side frame members by connecting means 14.
  • the connecting means is a bar which is slidable lengthways along the connecting channels 18 of the adjacent corner and side frame members so as to bridge the joint.
  • the sign panel may be strengthened by having one or more strengthening members 32 secured to its reverse face.
  • a preferred form of such optional strengthening member is shown in Fig 4.
  • the strengthening member is similar in cross-section to either of those depicted in Figs 1 and 2, but lacks the panel-receiving channel 16, and instead has a flange 26 for attachment to the rear of the panel.
  • the flange 26 corresponds to one wall of the panel-receiving channel 16, but also has a shallow recess 27 to receive adhesive by which it is secured to the sign panel.
  • the strengthening member may include a mounting channel 22 to provide additional mounting positions for attaching the frame to a suitable support.
  • connection is provided by an L-shaped bracket 28 which fits in the angle between strengthening member 32 and a side frame member 12 over the mouths of the connecting channels 18.
  • the L-shaped bracket contains holes through which may be passed bolts 30, the heads of which are non-rotatable within channels 18 and are held captive by the inturned lips 20 and the channels 18. The bracket is then secured in position by nuts.
  • This method of securing the joint between the strengthening member and side frame members may be also be used in place of the bars 14 to join side and corner frame members, the connecting plate in that case being planer rather than L-shaped.
  • connections between frame members may be made between their mounting channels 22, using a connecting plate and nuts and bolts.
  • Fig. 1 The cross-section shown in Fig. 1 is preferred for the corner frame members in that extrusions of this shape may be more easily worked and bent through 90° than would be the case if they were provided with mounting channels 22. It is of course not normally required to attach the corner frame members to a support. Also, by not having mounting channels 22 on the corner frame members, the mounting device for the sign can be slid lengthwise in the open ends of the mounting channels of the frame members 12.
  • the side frame members 12 may also have this section at the vertical sides of the frame, since it is normally the top and bottom horizontal frame members 12 that are used for mounting the sign.

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  1. Système d'encadrement pour l'encadrement d'un panneau d'affichage (40), comprenant des organes périphériques latéraux (12) et de coins (10) de cadre et des moyens de connexion (14) pour joindre les organes de cadre (10, 12) bout-à-bout, chaque organe de cadre (10, 12) comprenant une gorge (16) pour recevoir un bord d'un panneau d'affichage, caractérisé en ce que chaque organe de cadre (10, 12) comprend également une ou plusieurs gorges de connexion (18) avec des lèvres (20) retournées vers l'intérieur, les moyens de connexion (14) s'adaptant et pouvant être fixés dans lesdites gorges de connexion (18) d'organes adjacents de cadre (10, 12) afin de relier deux organes de cadre placés en aboutement bout à bout, au moins certains des organes de cadre latéraux étant pourvus de gorges de montage (22) avec des lèvres (24) tournées vers l'intérieur ouvrant vers l'arrière par rapport au panneau.
  2. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 1 où les organes de cadre des coins ne sont pas pourvus desdites gorges de montage.
  3. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2 où les gorges de connexion (18) sont prévues adjacentes aux gorges de réception des panneaux (16) et elles ouvrent dans la même direction que les gorges de réception de panneaux (16).
  4. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 1 où les gorges de montage (22) constituent également les gorges de connexion.
  5. Système d'encadrement selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes dans lequel les moyens de connexion (14) comprennent une barre longitudinalement coulissante le long de gorges alignées (18) de connexion d'organes périphériques de cadre mutuellement en aboutement et peuvent y être fixés.
  6. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 5 où la barre est fixée ou peut être fixée par un adhésif, ou bien en sertissant les gorges, ou les deux.
  7. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 6 où la barre est profilée pour recevoir ledit sertissage.
  8. Système d'encadrement selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7 comprenant de plus un organe de cadre de renforcement (32) pouvant être attaché à l'arrière du panneau d'affichage.
  9. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 8 où ledit organe de cadre de renforcement (32) est configuré afin de produire une autre gorge de montage (22).
  10. Système d'encadrement selon la revendication 8 ou la revendication 9 où ledit organe de cadre de renforcement (32) a sensiblement la même section transversale que les organes de cadre des coins (10) ou latéraux (12) mais sans la gorge de réception du panneau (16).
  11. Système d'encadrement selon l'une quelconque des revendications 8 à 10 où l'organe de cadre de renforcement peut être attaché aux organes périphériques de cadre par des moyens de connexion (28, 30) fixés dans les gorges de connexion (18) des organes de cadre de renforcement et périphériques.
  12. Système d'encadrement selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes où au moins une partie des moyens de connexion comprend des écrous et des boulons (30), les têtes de boulon ou les écrous étant capables de s'adapter en coulissant et de façon non rotative dans les gorges de connexion (18) et dont les tiges peuvent dépasser à travers les embouchures des gorges, pour fixer une plaque de connexion qui relie des organes adjacents de cadre en utilisation.
  13. Affichage comprenant un panneau d'affichage (40) encadré par un système d'encadrement selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
  14. Organe d'encadrement pour un affichage comprenant une extrusion à attacher à un panneau (40), l'organe d'encadrement ayant une ou plusieurs gorges de connexion (18) avec des lèvres (20) retournées vers l'intérieur, une gorge (16) pour recevoir un bord du panneau (40) d'un côté de la gorge ou des gorges de connexion (18) et une gorge de montage (22) avec des lèvres (24) retournées vers l'intérieur de l'autre côté de la gorge ou des gorges de connexion (18) et ouvrant au loin du panneau (40).
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