US1382225A - Sign - Google Patents

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Patented June 21, 1921.

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G. R. PYPER.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21,1919.

1,382,225. Patented June 21, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORG-E R. PYPER, 0F SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

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19382,-2256 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 21, 1921, f Application mea November 21, 191e. serial No. 339,670.

To all lwhom t may concern.'

Be' it known that I, GEORGE R. PYPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt ake yand State of Utah, have invented new and useful Improvements in Signs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in illuminated and animated signs and is designed to produce a simple and novel animating member provided with vanes eX- tending therefrom so that it can be readily rotated by a current of air, as from an electric' fan.

In the drawings: Fi ure 1 is a front elevation of a sign embo ying the present invention, the illuminatingdevices and parts of the operating mechanism being shown by dotted lines.

. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, showing the manner of mounting the rotatable .member and the circuit breaker operated thereby.

Figs. 3 to 8 inclusive illustrate different l:designs of the front 'of the rotatable mem- Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein like characters of reference denote corres onding parts, the reference character 15 in icates the sign member, which, as shown and described in my Patent No. 1,251,282, dated December 25, 1917, may be constructed of cardboard or other material and provided with openings 16, for the passage of light, the said openings'being preferably covered by a strip of translucent material 17. These openings may be arranged after. the manner of the patent previously referred to, or they may constitute a border for the sign member, as shown in Figs. 1,2 and 3.

Located at'the rear of the signlmember 15, is a casing 18, the said casing having mounted therein a shaft'19, the *latter being arranged substantially at right angles with respect to the sign. Mounted for free rotation upon the shaft 19, is a member 20. This member, as shown in Figs. 3 to 8, may be provided with a plurality of spirally or radially arranged openings 21,' and upon its rear face with vanes or projections 22. These vanes or rojections are so arranged that a current of air directed toward preferably one half of the rear face of the rotat! able member 20 will cause the latter to rotate upon the shaft 19, the speed of such serve to prevent longitudinal movement of the member 20 upon the said shaft.

Positioned within the casing 18, behind the rotatable member 20, is a source of light 24, herein shown as an electric bulb. Any number ofbulbs desired may be arranged toprovide the light and they may be of the same colors, or of different colors, as shown in my previous patent.

Also arranged behindl .thesign member 15, is a casing 25, within which is arranged a source of light inthe form of incandescent lamps 26, the said casing being provided with an extension 27, having also arranged therein incandescent lamps'28. The lamps 26 are designed to illuminate advertising, or other matter, formed by perforating the sign'member and covering .the said perforations with suitable translucent material, or the advertising or otherv matter may be formed by any other desired means.y There is illustrated in the drawings the extension 27, which is provided with an opening 29, which is covered by suitable translucent material, the said opening being arranged to represent a shaft, or bolt of lightning, the elect being increased by illuminating and extinguishlng the lamps 28 in a manner to preferably placed in the 'bottom of the casing with its armature shaft at right angles to the axis-.of the rod `19,- so that a strong current of air will strike the vanes 22 on the lower half only of the disk 20.

1t i-s also the purpose of the invention to alternately illuminate and extinguish the lamps 24, 26 and 28, and to accomplish this, there is provided a circuit breaker, which is connected with and operated by the rotatable mem-ber 20. `This circuit breaker is in the form of a cylinder or wheel 31, which may be formed on or detachalbly secured to the rotatable member and provided around its periphery with'spaced contact members 32, suitably insulated apart. The extremities of the contact members 32 project out- Wardly beyond the periphery of the cylinder or Wheel 31, and are adapted to conta/ct with a stationary contact member or brush 33. This contact member or brush 33 is mounted upon an arm 34, secured upon the rod 19. The contacts 32 will be placed in 'branches containing some of the lam- ps 24, 26 and 28 so that they will be alternately illuminated in a manner well known to those skilled in the art.

ln Fig. 5 of the drawings there is illustrated a direct drive for the shaft 19, which carries the rotatable member 20. This co-nsists in securing a pulley '40 to the member 44, is identical 20 and operating .lthesame through the medium of a belt 41, driven by a pulley 42, from a shaft 43, which is in turn operated by an electric fan or motor which operates rlhe diameters ofv the rotatable member. the pulleys 40 and 42, are such as to cause the shaft 19 to rotate at a greater speed than the shaft 43. In this form of the invention, the circuit breaker, which is indicated at in construction with the one previously described, but instead of .Ibeing mounted upon the shaft 19 is mounted upon the shaft 43.

Figs. 3 to 8 inclusive illustrate different forms of the rotatable member 20, any one of which may Ibe substituted for -the one shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by removing the shaft 19 from its bearings, and replacing it with the desired form of member 20 to meet the particular requirements of the part to be animated.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of con-struction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is: l

1. In an apparatus of the class described,

\a rotatable animating member having portions thereof removed to permit the intermittent passage of light therethrough as' it is rotated and having radially disposed vanes extending laterally from the lbody thereof to be engaged by a lcurrent of air for rotating the same, in combination with a casing having a display surface parallel to the animating member, and alight in the casing back of the animating member, substantially as and vfor the purpose described.

2. An illuminated sign embodying a member having light transmitting portions, e a source of light spaced from said member, a rotatable mem'ber interposed between the rst mentioned member and the source of light for alternately cutting 0H and permitting the lights rays to reach the said rst mentioned member, laterally extending radially disposed vanes carried -by the rotatable member, and means f-or supplying a current of air to the said rotatable member to operate the same.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GEORGE R. PYPER.

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