EP0514310A1

EP0514310A1 - Recipients attachable to parking inhibitor rods

Info

Publication number: EP0514310A1
Application number: EP92500052A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Enrique Francisco Pérez Ferre; Javier Gonzalez Gomez
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1991-05-06
Filing date: 1992-05-05
Publication date: 1992-11-19
Also published as: ES1017338U; ES1017338Y

Abstract

RECIPIENTS ATTACHABLE TO PARKING - INHIBITOR RODS, comprising a tubular element of a square cross-section (1), susceptible to being fitted over a conventional parking-inhibitor rod (2) to which the connection is made by means of screws (3). This tubular element, at the top, has two receptacles (5) that can be adapted to any configuration whatsoever. The entire structure is integrated within a case (7) having a large area useful for publicity purposes.

Description

The Patent Law in force establishes that new inventions involving an intentive activity and which are susceptible to an industrial activity are suitable for patenting (Article 4-1).
The invention is considered new when it is not anticipated in the present state of the technique, meaning that it is not understood in everything that, prior to the date of filing the application for the new patent, was accessible to the public, in Spain when it is a question of Utility Models, or in Spain and abroad when it is a question of Invention Patents. Similarly to be understood as within the present state of the technique is the object of any application, both of Invention Patents and Utility models, whose filing date were prior to the filing date of the new application, so long as the previous applications have been published or are due to be published later (Article 6.)
The invention is considered to have inventive activity if it is not deduced from the present state of the technique in any evident manner (when it is a question of Invention Patents) or in any very evident manner (when it is a question of Utility Models) appraised by an expert in the subject (Articles 8-1 and 146-1).
Finally, an invention is considered to be susceptible to industrial application when its object can be manufactured or used in any type of industry, including that of agriculture.
Therefore, in virtue of what goes before and based upon the set of articles that gather up the expressed concepts, it should be considered that the invention to which reference is made in this present report possesses the above conditions of novelty, inventive activity and industrial application as demanded, with its thereby being worthy of the patent for which the application is being made, and also of the rights of exclusive manufacture, commercialization, use, offer and introduction into commerce that the Law in force acknowledges (Articles 50, 51 and 152 of the Patent Law dated March 1986).
The object of the present invention, as expressed in the ABSTRACT of this descriptive report, is a RECIPIENT ATTACHABLE TO PARKING-INHIBITOR RODS.
The present device is susceptible to being fitted over the rods or metal columns used generally for impeding vehicles to be parked on the sidewalks, or else for setting apart the areas in which traffic is restricted or forbidden, due to which these rods are normally situated along the kerbs of the sidewalks, above all being of relatively small dimensions.
The purpose of the novelty recipients consists in introducing an improvement to these rods both in the aesthetic and practical sense.
In the aesthetic sense, because they thus allow coupling flower pots with live or artificial plants therein, and in the practical sense because at the same time a functional ashtray may be coupled to the rod.
On the other hand, this device increases the surface area of this type of city furnishing element, making it possible for it to be used as a showcase for publicity announcements or for any other type of indications.
The novelty recipient is composed of a tubular element of a square cross-section suitable for fitting over the rod to which it is connected and held immobile by means of two screws in the tubular part which apply pressure against the rod. At the top of this tubular piece there are two receptacles suitable for use as flower pots or as ashtrays or both at the same time. The entire complex can be integrated within a case of a variable shape whose sides can accept all kinds of publicity designs.
With the purpose of illustrating what has been put forth to here, accompanied to this present descriptive report and forming an integral part hereof is a sheet of drawings on which in a simplified and schematic manner an example of the operation is presented, merely in an illustrative and not limiting sense of the practical possibilities of the invention.
These drawings correspond to the representations of the elevation bottom, and right and left profiles of a recipient according to the principle of the claims, equipped with a case of a generally triangular in shape.
According to the drawings, the novelty recipient attachable to parking-inhibitor rods consists in a tubular element of a square cross-section -1- which susceptible to being fitted over a conventional parking-inhibitor rod -2- to which it is connected and held immobile by means of two screws -3- through its surface which apply pressure on the rod, thus impeding its being removed.
This device is equipped at the top with two receptacles that are capable of being used, as per the different versions, as flower pots, in which case it will be provided with a perforated base -4- that allows the evacuation of the excess water used for irrigating the plant contained therein, or as an ashtray in which case it will be covered -5- and provided with a small hole -6- which allows introducing cigarette butts and other refuse of small dimensions, as well as the extraction of that refuse by aspiration.
The entire complex can be integrated within a case -7- with a surface that is useful for publicity purposes and which, for maximum adaptation to the city environment, will present a width not very much in excess of the diameter of the rod itself in such a way that it does not overlap the edge of the kerb of the sidewalk nor hinder the transit of pedestrians.
Once made the description to which the previous report makes reference, it is essential to insist on the fact that the details in carrying out the idea as put forth may vary, meaning that they may undergo simple alterations, always based on the fundamental principles of the idea and which are in essence those which are reflected in the paragraphs of this description as put forth.
Indeed, the Patent Law in force establishes as unsuitable for patenting any changes of shapes, dimensions, proportions and materials in any already patented object, thus establishing the criterion of the legislator in the sense that nobody may base themselves on an idea that has been patented and which can give rise to a practical and industrially useful reality in order to present it as new and their own under the pretext of having introduced slight modifications therein.
Having established the given concept, to the extent to be given in the protection requested, next drawn up is the Note of Claims, thus synthesizing the novelties that we wish to claim:

NOTE

In summary, the privilege of exclusive exploitation that is applied for will be based upon the following claims:

Claims

RECIPIENTS ATTACHABLE TO PARKING-INHIBITOR RODS, of the type generally placed along the kerbs of sidewalks for impeding vehicles to be parked thereon, characterized essentially by their consisting in a tubular part of a square cross-section susceptible to being fitted over the parking inhibitor rods and which, in order to be connected thereto, is availed of two screws underneath which are screwed against it and are which are capable of applying pressure to the rod.
RECIPIENTS according to the claim, characterized essentially because the tubular part presents, at the top, two or more receptacles that are susceptible to adopting indistinctly the configuration as a flower pot, in which case they will be provided with a perforated base for the evacuation of excess irrigation water or as an ashtray in which case they will be covered and equipped with a small hole for introducing refuse.
RECIPIENTS according to the previous claims, characterized because the entire complex formed by the tubular part and the receptacles can be integrated within a case that covers the parking-inhibitor rod either partially or totally.
As such, and as is described in the present descriptive report which consists of six sheets, correspondingly numbered, typed on one side only at one and a half spaces, and a seventh sheet containing drawings.