US1268488A - Display device for flags. - Google Patents

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R. R. PULLEN. DISPLAY DEVICE FOR FLAGS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10 19H.

mfiwssa i Patented June 4, 1918.

MYMOND E. PULLEN, 0F OCEANIQ'NEW JERSEY.

IDI$PLAY DEVICE FOR FLAGS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND R. PULLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oceanic, Monmouth county, State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful limprovements in Display Devices for Flags, of which the following is a specification.

The display device of this invention is particularly adapted to hold and display flags. It is a light metal structure provided with a clamp for fastening it to any suitable support or the front part of an automobile, as for instance the filling cup of the radiator. It also includes means for holding a vertical rotatable shaft carrying an attractive object or objects, preferably flags. To 1 insure auto-rotary action of the flags and shaft the flags extend in opposite directions from the shaft. The flags are made of a stifl or rigid material, which may be sheet metal, and are so curved or bent as to ofler resistance to air currents at one side of the shaft and to spill the air at the other side of the shaft. The device also comprises laterally extending branches or arms, the ends of which are provided with means for holding the staffs of other flags, preferably in inclined positions. These flag holding means consists of bends at the ends arms having a certain amount of resiliency and suitably perforated to the staffs of the flags, placed throu h the perforations. The perforations or ho es are so located that when the bends are compressed the holes will aline for the free admission of the sta'fls, and the holes will firmly grip the stafl's by the resiliency of the bends when the same are released, and so securely hold the flags in set positions.

All parts of the display device may be integral, suitably shaped by a unching process, the various parts bemg ormed or bent.

into shape to properly perform the desired functions. Or the parts may be made separately and then connected together to constitute a complete display device.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an embodiment of the mvention.

Figure 1, is a face view of the device comlete. V p Fig. 2, a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3, a vertical central section; and Fig. 4, shows a blank, in the fiat, adapted to be formed into shape, as shownin the 1 other views. I

Fig 4; shows a. properly shaped blank specification of Letters Patent.

of the lateral act as clamps for Patented June a, 19318.

Application filled July 10, 1917. Serial Bio. 179,707.

from. which the device may be made. It comprises two lateral extensions 5, 5, each having a puncture or hole 6, 6, at its end; two lateral bars 7, 7, adjacent the extensions 5, 5, and each having two holes 8, 8, at its end, an extension 9 at right angles to 5 and 7, and punctured by a hole 10, at its end. The extension 9, has also a hole 11, mediate its ends and a tongue 12, slit from its end adjacent the bars 7, 7. It maybe expedient from a manufacturers view-point to build the device up from separate pieces; in such case the parts 5, 5, and 9, may be secured together by rivets, as indicated by dotted circles .13, 13, and the bars 7, secured to the part 9, as indicated by the dotted circles 14, 14. Inother views the parts 7, and 9, connecting' rivets 14, 14, are shown in full, the parts 5, 5, and 9, being integral.

The clamp feature of the device is made from the parts 5, 5, bent so as to embrace any suitable support and securely held thereon by a screw bolt 15, passed through the holes 8, 8, so as to draw the ends of the clamp together. It is shown in Figs. 1 and 8 embracing the filling cup 16, of the radiathe bearings 10 and 11. Y This shaft 19, may

carry any auto-rotary objects; represented as double flag 20, which is printed, or otherwise impressed or marked on both sides of a sheet of a suitable rigid material that will maintain curvatures formed at its edges, such as shown in the lan view Fig. 2. The convex sides of the o ject. 20, ofi'er less re- ,tor of an automobile. The means for holdsistance than the concave sides to currents of air when the device is stationar and when it is carried on a moving Vehic e. A single flag maybe applied to each side of the object.

The bends formed at the ends of the.

branches or bars 7,7, as'shown in Fig. 1 are resilient and the holes 8,8, are'located in the bends in such manner that when the bends are somewhat: closed by pressure applied to their ends 21, the holes willaline to afl'orda free passage for the insertion of a stick or rod of a display object therein. The resiliency of the bends will, when their ends are released, cause the stick or rod to be securely gripped by the edges. of the holes. Small flags 22, 23, areshown as the objects carried at the ends of the bars 7 7, their stafis 24, being of a size to be adequately held in the holes 8, 8, of the resilient bends.

I claim:

1. A display device, comprising a clamp for securing the device to a support in operative position, an extension having holes adapted to act as bearings for the vertical shaft of a rotatable object and a tongue out from the base of the extension and formed to act as a step bearing for the vertical shaft and lateral branches or bars eac'h provided at its end with means for holding the stafi' of a flag.

2. A display device, comprising a clamp for securing the device to a support in operative posi-tlon, means centrally located on the device for holding a rotatable object having a vertical shaft and lateral branches or bars each having at its end a resilient bend provided with holes adapted to grip and firmly hold the stafi' of a flag by the resiliency of the bend.

4;. A display device, composed of sheet I metal having side pieces adapted to be formed into a clamp for securing the device to a support, a central extension having holes formed therein and a tongue piece cut therefrom and bent to bring the holes and the end of the tongue in alinement, and lateral branches having their ends bent with two holes in each bend angularly arranged.

Signed at New York, county and State of New York, this 9th day of July, 1917.

RAYMOND R. PULLEN.

In the presence of LATHAM D. PEARSALL, WM. J. DOLAN.

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