EP0531037A1 - Dispositif d'affichage - Google Patents

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EP0531037A1
EP0531037A1 EP92307747A EP92307747A EP0531037A1 EP 0531037 A1 EP0531037 A1 EP 0531037A1 EP 92307747 A EP92307747 A EP 92307747A EP 92307747 A EP92307747 A EP 92307747A EP 0531037 A1 EP0531037 A1 EP 0531037A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F7/00—Signs, name or number plates, letters, numerals, or symbols; Panels or boards
    • G09F7/02—Signs, plates, panels or boards using readily-detachable elements bearing or forming symbols
    • G09F7/14—Constructional features of the symbol bearing or forming elements
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F7/00—Signs, name or number plates, letters, numerals, or symbols; Panels or boards
    • G09F7/02—Signs, plates, panels or boards using readily-detachable elements bearing or forming symbols

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  • This invention is concerned with display means, especially but not exclusively for use in or by retail outlets, as for example in shop windows and the like.
  • Temporary window signs such as those which are to be seen whenever a retail store is advertising a short-term promotion, such as the holding of a sale or is carrying out a particular sales promotion, are to be found throughout the world. Such signs are used for very many other purposes, but are predominantly used on the internal surface of a glass door or window, although they may be used on products themselves within a retail outlet.
  • the present invention seeks to provide an alternative means of providing a display essentially of alphanumeric characters but not necessarily exclusively thereof, in which not only can the characters be readily created by the user with a uniqueness of style, but wherein the essential elements can be used and re-used and stored easily and can be arranged uniformly prior to use as a window sign so as to provide a neat, professional presentation.
  • the present invention provides re-usable display means for creating alphanumeric characters and displays thereof for mounting on flat display surfaces, the display means comprising a plurality of like elements, each formed from planar display material and having the general shape of an elongate rectangle having chamfered, tapered or rounded end portions whereby adjacent elements can be located in juxtaposed relationship to form alphanumeric characters as aforesaid, each element having a coating or being formed of or including a material whereby it will adhere to a display surface and can be readily removed therefrom by peeling or lifting therefrom.
  • multiples of said elements may be integrally formed in end-to-end relationship to provide unitary strips of said elements.
  • Such an arrangement assists the creation of characters such as those having a elongate vertical element as do the letters B, D, E, F, H, I, K to N, P, R, T and U. It has been found that strips which are equivalent to two, three or four elements are most useful in this respect.
  • each element is each formed at substantially the same angle of and within the range of from substantially 40 degrees to substantially 45 degrees, as this provides considerable flexibility in forming and designing alphanumeric characters, as will be explained hereinafter, to provide a unique character set. Whilst 45 degrees is perceived as an optimum angle, particularly for non-italicised characters, it will be appreciated that for some character sets, different angles may be more appropriate.
  • each element may be curved to semi-circular or elliptical form and the elongate edges of the generally rectangular shape of the element may be shallowly curved.
  • each element is trapezium-shaped with each base angle of the trapezium also within the aforementioned range.
  • the elements themselves can be formed from any flexible or semi-rigid material, preferably a plastics material, made from or coated with or including a material which will allow the element to be mounted removably on a display surface.
  • a plastics material made from or coated with or including a material which will allow the element to be mounted removably on a display surface.
  • Such materials include film-form plastics materials which adhere electrostatically to surfaces such as of glass, wood and metal, and materials which are formed from releasably self-adhesive compositions or are coated, on at least the surface which is to be applied to the mounting surface on which a display is to be formed, with such compositions.
  • the material of the elements and strips may comprise magnetic materials or may be coated at least on one surface with a magnetic coating.
  • the present invention further provides a former for use with display means according to the invention for producing alphanumeric characters, the former comprising one or more templates each having an aperture therein which corresponds in outline to the outline of one or more of the characters to be formed.
  • the present invention also provides a display kit comprising display means according to the invention and means for assisting correct layout and positioning of each element to form the characters prior to mounting or positioning on a display surface, the latter means comprising a support sheet having indicated thereon a plurality of markings which correspond to the positions to be adopted by individual elements in the formation of each alphanumeric character, in juxtaposition to adjacent characters, the support sheet having a support surface onto which the elements can be placed and from which they can be transferred to a display surface.
  • the present invention also provides a method of forming a display of one or more alphanumeric characters from display means according to the invention, the method comprising the steps of selecting a plurality of elements of the display means, assembling the elements in a preformed template having the external shape required of the or each alphanumeric character and positioning the or each alphanumeric character so formed on a display surface or on a surface from which the or each alphanumeric character can be transferred to the display surface.
  • the element according to the invention which is shown therein comprises a piece 10 of flexible plastics material having a length-to-width ratio of approximately two to one.
  • the element is rectangular and has chamfered corners 12 with the length of each chamfered edge 14 being substantially equal to the length of the remaining central end edge 16 of the piece 10 .
  • the element is mounted on a piece of backing material from which it can be peeled when required and onto which it can be replaced after use.
  • Figure 2 there is illustrated a second embodiment 20 which has the same length-to-width proportions as that shown in Figure 1 but which has semi-circular end portions as shown.
  • the element 30 is substantially trapezoidal in shape with the longer side 32 being about twice the length of the shorter parallel side 34 and the width of the element being about half the length of the shorter parallel side. This formation provides tapered edges which are at about 45 degrees to the parallel sides of the element.
  • the segments can be butted together at their chamfered edges alone.
  • the flexibility of the system which the present invention provides is such that the characters can be formed in a number of different ways without detracting from the proportions of the characters. If for example, a display were to be created from simple rectangular elements then it is quickly established that certain characters have disproportionate gaps or overlaps in their structure as compared to the size of the character itself while in some instances it is not possible to create characters which are not confusingly similar to others; this can be readily appreciated from comparison of the two characters 'D' and 'O', for example.
  • Figure 5 there are illustrated further letters of a different style formed from elements such as are shown in Figure 3.
  • Figure 6 A further comparison of character variation is shown in Figure 6.
  • the elements shown in these Figures can, as with those shown in Figure 4, be assembled without disproportionate sizing of any of the characters due to the shaping of the end portions of the elements. The effect of this can be most clearly demonstrated with reference to the characters 'K' and 'S' where other than chamfered end portions would provide characters which were either too broad or too tall.
  • the elements are readily formable from sheet-form plastics material mounted on a backing material from which the elements are readily peelable.
  • a former may be provided which illustrates a complete alphanumeric character set, including possible variants of some characters, printed thereon.
  • the former also includes alignment marks which provide guidance to a user for positioning a backing sheet of transparent plastics material thereon onto which the elements of each character can be placed as the backing sheet is positioned manually on the former to present each next character space over the character representation in order to overlay the elements on the appropriate segments of the representation.
  • the backing sheet is provided as an elongate strip which is long enough to form a word or slogan thereon.
  • the entire sheet can then be presented to the surface onto which the characters are to be transferred, and the backing sheet peeled away.
  • the backing sheet peeled away.
  • a series of templates may be used as an alternative to the process described in the last preceding paragraph but one.
  • the series of templates provides all of the outline shapes for all the twenty-six alphabetic characters and for the numbers from '0 'to '9'.
  • Two such templates are illustrated by way of example in Figures 9A and 9B.
  • the template 40 shown in Figure 9A is suitable for forming the letters A, C, E, F, H, I, L, N, O, Q, T and U and the numbers 3 and 8
  • the template 42 shown in Figure 9B is suitable for forming the letters B and P and the numbers 4, 6 and 9. Wherever a diagonal is present in a character, as in the letter N, the diagonal element is inserted by hand.
  • a former can be provided on which the character representations are formed in mirror image.

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EP92307747A 1991-09-03 1992-08-25 Dispositif d'affichage Withdrawn EP0531037A1 (fr)

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GB919118765A GB9118765D0 (en) 1991-09-03 1991-09-03 Display means
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WO2002009072A1 (fr) * 2000-07-25 2002-01-31 John Michael Brennan Appareil d'affichage

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NL8000910A (nl) * 1980-02-13 1981-09-16 Den Berg & Slothouber B V Van Werkwijze voor het op een doorzichtig vlak aanbrengen van zelfhechtende letters.
US4583312A (en) * 1983-07-18 1986-04-22 King Design, Inc. Changeable sign board with magnetic characters
CH665041A5 (en) * 1984-12-17 1988-04-15 Johann Kaspar Truninger Information e.g. price display panel for petrol filling station - uses segmental alphanumeric characters comprising magnetic segments of two different lengths attached to metal support surface
EP0333285A1 (fr) * 1988-03-14 1989-09-20 Gerben Wiebe Bootsma Méthode pour l'application d'une couche magnétisable et un objet ou une surface pourvu d'une telle couche

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NL8000910A (nl) * 1980-02-13 1981-09-16 Den Berg & Slothouber B V Van Werkwijze voor het op een doorzichtig vlak aanbrengen van zelfhechtende letters.
US4583312A (en) * 1983-07-18 1986-04-22 King Design, Inc. Changeable sign board with magnetic characters
CH665041A5 (en) * 1984-12-17 1988-04-15 Johann Kaspar Truninger Information e.g. price display panel for petrol filling station - uses segmental alphanumeric characters comprising magnetic segments of two different lengths attached to metal support surface
EP0333285A1 (fr) * 1988-03-14 1989-09-20 Gerben Wiebe Bootsma Méthode pour l'application d'une couche magnétisable et un objet ou une surface pourvu d'une telle couche

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WO2002009072A1 (fr) * 2000-07-25 2002-01-31 John Michael Brennan Appareil d'affichage

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