EP0721636A1 - Support publicitaire en colonne ou support d'informations similaire - Google Patents

Support publicitaire en colonne ou support d'informations similaire

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Publication number
EP0721636A1
EP0721636A1 EP94915062A EP94915062A EP0721636A1 EP 0721636 A1 EP0721636 A1 EP 0721636A1 EP 94915062 A EP94915062 A EP 94915062A EP 94915062 A EP94915062 A EP 94915062A EP 0721636 A1 EP0721636 A1 EP 0721636A1
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Prior art keywords
balloon
columnar
advertisement support
support according
foil
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Benny Dalgaard
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Individual
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Priority claimed from DK50293A external-priority patent/DK50293A/da
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Publication of EP0721636A1 publication Critical patent/EP0721636A1/fr
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Classifications

    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64B—LIGHTER-THAN AIR AIRCRAFT
    • B64B1/00—Lighter-than-air aircraft
    • B64B1/40—Balloons
    • B64B1/50—Captive balloons
    • 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
    • G09F15/0025—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like planar structures comprising one or more panels display surface tensioning means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F21/00—Mobile visual advertising
    • G09F21/06—Mobile visual advertising by aeroplanes, airships, balloons, or kites
    • 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
    • G09F7/18—Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure
    • G09F7/22—Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure for rotatably or swingably mounting, e.g. for boards adapted to be rotated by the wind

Definitions

  • the invention concerns a columnar advertisement support or similar information carrier in the form of a balloon.
  • Small advertizing balloons which usually consist of rubber with advertising prin .
  • the balloons are either filled with a gas and are retained by a string or are filled with air and are retained on a rod.
  • Advertising balloons are also known in very large sizes, such as airships or blimps, but they are made of reinforced rubber cloth, PVC or other expensive and heavy materials, and their maintenance is expensive because it is necessary to ensure that they are gas impermeable, since the buoyancy medium, ⁇ &.g. helium, escapes easily. Furthermore helium is an expensive gas.
  • the advantage of the blimp type is that it is visible at a long distance. However the ability of large balloons to withstand strong wind or gusts of wind is limited, and it is necessary to tether them securely. It is the purpose of the invention to provide an information carrier in the form of a balloon which does not display these disadvantages.
  • the balloon consists of a cylindrical or prismatic tube of a light and strong foil and that it is inflated so hard that it becomes a stiff body.
  • the foil may be a pre-stretched foil.
  • a preferred embodiment terminates the body at the lower end with a frame which may be mounted with a certain flexibility.
  • a further preferred embodiment utilizes a tilting plate at the lower end which by means of a spring is pulled against a supporting surface which ensures that the balloon remains vertical when there is no wind force. Thus it is automatically ensured that the balloon will straighten itself when the wind force disappears.
  • the spring force must be adjusted to the wind force which would exceed the forces tolerable by the balloon, in order that the balloon deflects downward before it is destroyed.
  • there is in conjunction with the tilting plate provided a further plate as the lower termination of the balloon. Hence it is obtained that the foil of the balloon may be drawn into a groove at the circumference of the bottom plate which in a simple way provides a very stiff connection between bottom plate and the balloon when it it inflated.
  • a supply of air under pressure is fed through the bottom plate.
  • a further advantageous embodiment of the invention prevents downwards deflection in certain directions.
  • TV aerials which with a wind direction from the balloon to the TV aerial would cause the balloon either to be damaged itself or itself damaged the aerial, and therefore there is according to the invention fitted one or several vertical deflector rods on the frame which ensure that the balloon in the downwards deflected condition will have a certain small angle with respect to the wind direction, but this angle will be sufficient to avoid collission with e.g. an aerial.
  • a further advantageous embodiment is used in those cases where downwards deflection cannot be tolerated but where because of the other advantages of the construction it is desired to make use of a self- supporting balloon.
  • the balloon is shaped with an inner, preferably centrally fitted foil tube, through which an iron rod leads from the foundation to a collecting point for a number, typically three, tethering wires.
  • a stiff construction is obtained which will better withstand a wind pressure.
  • An advantageous embodiment utilizes partial metallization of the plastic foil, since it will then be possible to obtain luminous figures in the dark, provided there is a source of light inside the balloon, and provided the metallization has been removed in a pattern corresponding to the figures. Similarly by only metallizing the figures it is possible to make the figures stand as black contours on a luminous background which is constituted by the remainder of the balloon.
  • a further advangeous embodiment of the invention uses fluorescent paint to apply figures or letters on the outside or the inside the foil layer of the balloon. It is furthermore possible to apply such paint on a metallized foil.
  • Embodiments with a bottom plate are particularly suitable as light fixtures may be fitted on it with such a radiation pattern that any desired part of the inner surface of the balloon may be lit with sufficient intensity. Hence it is possible to obtain any kind of sign lit from the inside, with or without colours, dependent on the colour of the foil or print.
  • Fig. 1 shows the lower part of a balloon according to the invention which is mounted on a frame in its position of rest
  • Fig. 2 shows the same balloon with a limited deflection
  • Fig. 3 shows a deflected balloon from above
  • Fig. 4 shows another balloon according to the invention which is mounted around a rod.
  • a balloon 1 in a light, strong plastic foil material which is strapped on to a bottom plate la.
  • the balloon may be in one piece which is welded at the top or it may be welded from several pieces.
  • the bottom plate is mounted on a frame or tube 2 which is connected to the tilting plate 2a. This is held towards a ring 5 by means of a spring and a pullrod 4, however provision being made that a sufficiently large sideways deflecting force on the balloon 1 will cause tilting of the plate 2a on the ring 5.
  • the balloon is supplied with air through a flexible tube which ends in a pipe stub 8.
  • the flexible tube must be so resilient that the balloon may perform the required tilting movements unhampered.
  • the pressure in the balloon changes with in particular temperature, and since the stiffness of the construction is dependent on the presence of sufficient pressure, a pressure regulator and pressurized air supply (not shown) are connected to the pipe stub 8. Obviously any other gas under pressure may be used. In case the inner pressure threatens to exceed the permissible pressure for the foil material or the welding seams an excess pressure valve may be fitted.
  • a stiff rod 3 is mounted on the lower part of the frame by means of a screw 6.
  • the height of the rod decides the degree of deflection, but in most cases the cooperation between the tube 2 and the rod 3 will result in a deflection next to the rod 3.
  • the deflection is shown in Fig. 2, and in Fig. 3 it seen from above how a TV aerial 7 avoids being hit. The balloon is deflected past it. The same effect would obviously be obtained by any other obstacle which is ensured against collision by means of a rod 3.
  • Fig. 2 the height of the rod decides the degree of deflection, but in most cases the cooperation between the tube 2 and the rod 3 will result in a deflection next to the rod 3.
  • the deflection is shown in Fig. 2, and in Fig. 3 it seen from above how a TV aerial 7 avoids being hit. The balloon is deflected past it. The same effect would obviously be obtained by any other obstacle which is ensured against collision by means of a rod 3.
  • a balloon which is made like a very oblong torus, in that the balloon a close to its centre line is supplied with a foil tube b going through the balloon.
  • a rod c preferably of iron but in certain cases of glass fibre reinforced plastic, passes from a bottom plate upwards through the tube b through the balloon and is terminated with a fixing device at the upper end. Since the balloon a would not be able to withstand a wind force the rod c is anchored suitably to the roof by means of e.g.
  • Fig. 4a shows a cross section of the balloon
  • Fig. 4b shows that the bottom plate f to which the balloon may be directly strapped as described above, carries lighting fixtures g. These lighting fixtures are distributed in such a way that it is not possible to see from the outside that there is a rod c inside the balloon which hence appears just as airy as in the tiltable embodiment.

Abstract

Les petits ballons publicitaires ne sont pas très visibles à distance. Les ballons pourvus de mâts d'amarrage ou petits dirigeables sont lourds et chers. L'invention concerne un porteur d'informations se présentant sous la forme d'un corps cylindrique en matière plastique non extensible qui est gonflé pour être autoporté. La base du corps est fixée à une plate-forme qui peut s'affaisser lorsque la force du vent sur le porteur gonflé dépasse une valeur donnée. Tout l'ensemble est alors déporté par le vent.
EP94915062A 1993-05-04 1994-05-04 Support publicitaire en colonne ou support d'informations similaire Withdrawn EP0721636A1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (5)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DK50293A DK50293A (da) 1993-05-04 1993-05-04 Reklameballoner til comercielt brug, udført i folie, med og eller uden metalicering
DK502/93 1993-05-04
DK3394 1994-01-07
DK33/94 1994-01-07
PCT/DK1994/000180 WO1994025952A1 (fr) 1993-05-04 1994-05-04 Support publicitaire en colonne ou support d'informations similaire

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EP0721636A1 true EP0721636A1 (fr) 1996-07-17

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AU (1) AU6645794A (fr)
WO (1) WO1994025952A1 (fr)

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