US1122164A

US1122164A - Illuminating-sign.

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Publication number: US1122164A
Application number: US72911912A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert E Schneider
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-11-01
Filing date: 1912-11-01
Publication date: 1914-12-22
Anticipated expiration: 1931-12-22

Description

'A. RSOHNEIDER.

ILLUMINATING SIGN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1912.

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ALBERT E. SCHNEIDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ILLUMINA'IING-SIGN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented. Dec. 22, 191%.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT E. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Illuminating- Signs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to illuminated signs, and has for its object to provide a device of this character in which the lights employed to illuminate it, are 'concealed position on the base plate.

.To these ends the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views :-.-Figure 1 is a front View of my im proved sign. Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view thereof with parts of a letter brokenaway for the sake of clearness. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the letters, and

Fig. 1 is a sectional view taken on the line l4 of Fig. 2.

My improved sign consists of a back frame or base plate 1 provided'with an outwardly beveled edge 2 to form a hollow back portion 3. Contact strips 4 and 5 are secured to the front or exposed face of the base plate and are insulated therefrom by means of the'strips 6 and 7. These contact strips are adapted to be connected in any suitable manner to electric conducting wires for supplying the sign with electric fluid b which the same is illuminated.

Secured to the base plate 1 by means of the adjusting screws 8, are the characters or parallel with the face of the base plate, are 1 spaced 2. suitable distance therefrom and have their interior coated with a suitable reflecting material. A series of electric lamps 10 are mounted in the interior of each letter and are electrically connected by the conductors 11 to the

spring contacts

12 and 13 whichare attached to the letters and which contactwith the strips 4 and 5 when the sign is assembled. Any suitable means may be employed for preventing a short circuit of current from one contact to the other.

The exposed surface of the base plate is suitably coated with a white enamel material which contrasts with that on the outer face of the letters and against which is reflected the rays of light from the electric lamps. The mounting of the letters is such that they stand out in bold relief from the sign board and may be easily read when illuminated at night and yet present an artistic and attractive sign by day. From the foregoing it may-also be seen that when it is desirous of changing the reading matter of the sign it is necessary only to remove the clamping nuts 14 from the inner ends of the adjusting screws and remove the letter from the base plate, which removal also discon nects, through the spring contacts, the electric light connections, thereby doing away with the necessity of unwiringand rewiring the different letters every time a change of the letters is desired.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction and arrangements of parts without departing from the spirit of my invention and therefore I do not wish to be limited to such features except as may be required by the claim.

What is claimed as new is:

A sign comprising a plate, electric conductors mounted upon the plate, letters located in front of the plate and spaced from the same, said letters having front walls parallel with the plate, and side portions at right angles to the plate, lamps mounted contacts electrically connecting the lamps In testimon whereof I afiix my signature Wlthl the conductiorsfiand bogs) cgnnectillllg in presence 0 two witnesses.

the etters with t e p ates an ri 'n t e space between the letters and pla t es and ALBERT SCHNEIDER serving as means for holding the contacts Witnesses:

against the conductors and supporting the R DOLPH BLEIER,

letters in spacedrelation from the plate. LEWIS J. J oHNsoN.