US1292433A - Advertising-sign. - Google Patents

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S. COHEN.

ADVERTISING SIGN.

Patented Jan. 28, 1919.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJ. 19H.

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SIMON COHEN, 0F HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

ADVERTISING-SIGN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1919.

Application filed August 7, 1917. Serial No. 184,964.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON COHEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising- Signs, of which the following is a speclficat-ion.

My invention relates to improvements in advertising signs, of the form that is provided with illumination by means of 1ncandescent lamps, and the object of my 1mprovement is to produce a sign that is unique and attractive, and in which the sign proper has some movement, responslve to air currents, the sign being adapted for outdoor use.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of my 1mproved advertising sign, as adapted for use on the front wall of a building.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevation of the upper part.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevation of the lower part.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation, in part brok en out, of the lantern, showing the interior structure.

Fig. 7 is a bottom view, in part broken out, of the lantern.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the form adapted to be mounted on a roof.

Fig. 9 is an end elevation of the same.

My improved advertising sign comprises a frame 10 adapted to be supported from the front wall of a building in any sultable manner,-as by means of brackets 11 or to rest on the roof of a building and held in place by braces 11, and operatively mounted in the said frame is a, moving structure composed of a lantern 12 and a set of wings 13 extending outwardly from the said lantern, the side faces of the wings serving as the signs proper and being illuminated by lamps 14 housed in the lantern.

The frame 10 is formed of strap iron, bent into the form of a closed loop of rectangular form, having parallel top and bot tom bars 15.

The lantern 12 is a symmetrical structure, mounted on an axial shaft 16 of tubular form that is plugged at the lower end to provide a V-shaped bearing 17 that serves as the main support, the body portion 18 being of hexagonal form, and the top and bottom portions 19 extending from the body portion 18 to the shaft 16 in pyramidal form.

There are two wings 13 extending outwardly from opposite corners. The two lantern sides 20 on the corners to which the wings are connected are provided with windows 21, and positioned back of-the windows is a lamp 14, backed by a reflector 22. The lantern sides 23 intermediate the windows 21, one at the front and the other at the back are blank, and may be provided with a false window 24 in the form of a mirror. The panels 25 that compose the top and bottom portions 19 of the lantern structure may be provided with inserts of colored or ornamental glass, such inserts serving for ornamentation merely, and serving in no way for useful illumination of the adjacent display space, the panels 25 being made of sheet material.

The bottom bar 15 of the frame 10 is provided on the upper face with a bearing strap 27, having a V-shaped bearing 28 for receiving the bearing 17 of the shaft 16, and positioned above the bearin 28 is a guide strap 29 having a hole 30 or receiving the shaft 16 and guiding the same.

The upper bar 15 is provided on the under side with a hood 31 for housing and protecting the electrical connections and the upper bearing structure. Extending downwardly from the middle of the hood 31 is a fixed pin 32 that supports the upper fixed bearing member 33. The said bearing member 33 serves also as an electrical contact member, being insulated from the pin 32 by means of a bushing 34, and having a terminal 35 for a wire 36, and has the lower end 37 of conical form. On the upper end of the shaft 16, and insulated therefrom by r 'bore of the hollow shaft 16. Between the of the two wings 13.

washer plate and the top plate is oneof the ends of the wire 13 that extends d0wnwardly through the shaft 16. Screws 44:,

provided with suitable nuts, serve to hold the said wire end in place and to hold the top plate 40 to the washer plate 42.

The top late 40 is provided with a V- shaped bearing 45 for cotiperating with the bearing 37.

Just below the bearing structure 89 there i is a fixed strap 46 having a bearing guide hole that is engaged with the shaft 16.

wires. and at the same time permitting of free rotation of the moving structure.

The, wings 13 are formed of sheet material, the top and bottom edges being wired, the wire 51 in each case extending continuously across the axis, passing through the shaft 16, and along the corresponding edges The junction of the wire 51 and the shaft 16 corresponds in position approximately to the position of the apex portion of pyrami dal top end portion 19 or bottom end portion 19, as the case may be, so that the entire lantern structure 12 is substantially contained in the space between the top and bottom wired edges, as determined by the wires 51.

Thus the wings 13 are parts of a generally rectangular structure having the lantern l2 extended'across the middle. The parts of the said rectangular structure that extend outwardly laterally from the body portion 18, at the middle of the lantern 12, are positioned suitably to be illuminated by the lamps housed in the lantern, and are, therefore, adapted to serve as display devices, and they are also adapted to serve as positioning means responsive to air currents impinging thereon for positioning the moving structure.

Theparts of the said rectangular structure above and below the body 18, extending across the pyramidal end portions 19. and bounded by the wired edges mentioned, are

of appreciable depth and are, by reason of their positions and their relation to the adj ace'nt said end portions 19, particularly adapted to serve as positioning vanes for cooperation with air currents for positioning the moving structure.

of the said end portions 19 serves to reduce to a minimum the obstruction to the air currents.

The parts or zones of the wing structure 13 directly outward from 'the body portion 18 are positionedsuitably to be illuminated. by the said lightingdevices and serve as dis play devices or signs proper, and they also serve as positioning vanes in cooperation with air currents, and the parts or zone-sot the said wing structure that are above and below the body portion Y18 and that are'joutward from' the tapered: or pyramidal end portions are out of the range of the lighting devices of the bodyport'ion 18, and serve merely as positioning vanes, being in the form of extensions of themiddle or intermediate zone entioned? The wing structure 13 being plain and flat operates to position themoving structure in a plane that is. coincident with the directional plane of the'air'currents, and thereby distinguishes in operation 'from devices in the form of propellers, having c'urv'ed blades. g

I claim as my invention 1. An advertising sign comprising a moving structure supportedv so as to swingon a vertical axis, the said moving structure com: prising a generally rectangular plate-like member that extends across the axis in an axial plane and a lantern incorporated in the said member, and positioned at the" axis, the said lantern having a body portion being provided with lighting devices in the interior and havingwindows in the side wall, the said plate-like member having a zone positioned outward from the said body portion suitably to receive illumination from the said lighting devices, and the saidplaterlike member having zones above and below the first mentioned zone that areout of range of such illumination and "that operate as positioning vanesfor the moving structure responsive to the'efi'ects of air currents.

2. An advertising sign comprising a7m0ving structure supported so as to swing on a vertical axis, the said moving structure comprising a generally rectangular plate-like member that extends across thesaid axis in an axial plane and a lantern incorporated in the said member, positioned at the axis, the

' said lantern having a body portion that is provided with lighting devices, and the said outside of the range of the said lighting demoving stru cture being constructed and arvices and serve only as positioning devices in ranged so that a portion only of the said cooperatlon with air currents.

plate-like member receives illumination SIMON COHEN. 5 from the said lighting devices and is adapt- Witnesses:

ed to serve as a display portion and other J. GOLDENBERG,

portions of the said plate-like member are M. VIDIMAN.

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Washington, D. 0."

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