US1452396A - Advertising device - Google Patents

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Apr. 17,1923.

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Patented Apr. 17, 1923.

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LLOYD HENRY rS'IERNER, HENRY M. LANDROTH, AND MJINNIE ESTELLA. STERNER, 0F FREMONT, NEBRASKA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application filed February 1, 1921. Serial No. 441,708.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, LLOYD H. STERNER, HENRY M. LANDROTH, and MINNIE E. STERNER, citizens of the United States, residing at Fremont, in the county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification. l

The invention relates to improvements 1n advertising devices, and more especially to a novel form of sign support for display of advertising matter thereon.

The primary object of the invention is to provide for a device of the type mentioned, and one of a comparatively simple and inexpensive construction and arrangement of the parts thereof.

Another object of the invention is to provide for a portable display sign support, and one which is adapted for use on the sidewalk in front of a place of business, and capable of movement in the wind whereby to attract the attention of persons passing in its vicinity, but which will always return to a vertical position when not affected by the wind.

A further object of the invention is to provide for a sign support of the character set forth, and one which is practically indestructible under eXtreme hard usage or exposure to the weather.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the inventionresides in the certain novel and useful construction and arrangement` of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a rear elevation,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view, and,

Fig. 4.- is a vertical section through the base of the sign support.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 10 indicates a base member of any suitable form, or substantially semi-spherical as shown, having its curved face acting as the supporting surface thereof, but to hold the upper flat face thereof normally parallel to the ground, this curved face is slightly fiattened medially of the same, as in 10', so

that, should a rocking movement be imparted to the base, the same will always return to normal position. This base 10 is preferable of a suitable amount of metal cast or molded to proper form, and rising` medially from the upper flat face is the standard or post 11, which has its lower end split to provide outwardly flared inherent anchoring portions 11', so as to be firmly imbedded in the metal cast or molded around the same. The standard 11 may be a pipe section as shown, or of a solid rod formation as desired, and in either case, the upper end of the same is bifurcated, as at 12, for the reception therein of a signboard or disk 13, as the case may be, of galvanized sheet metal or the like, the board or disk being secured in position within the slot or bifurcation 12 by means of suitable fastenings or bolts 14. If desired, the board or disk 13 may be provided on one side, preferably the rear side, with a horizontally eX- tending reinforcing element or strip 15, of angle iron or the like, or the same may be otherwise made rigid as by forming a clip or groove across the face thereof in lieu of the strip 15.

In the use of the device, the signboard or disk 13 may have any desired advertising matter applied directly to one or both faces thereof as by painting the same thereon, or gluing printed sheets to the faces thereof, or the same may be formed in the ,faces as by stamping, embossing, or otherwise in any suitable or known manner.

The device thus pro-vided is particularly designed for use in the open, so that the slightest wind breeze will cause it to rock in a manner to attract the attention of passersby, the same always returning to a vertical position when not being affected by a current of wind, or if the same should be otherwise forced out of its normal ver tical position.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed, is As a new article of manufacture, a combined portable and tiltable sign having inherent means to automatically cause it to assume a vertical position when shifted from perpendicular and when pressure is removed therefrom, and comprising a tubular standard having' a, relatively short longitudinal split at its inner end disposed with respect to the longitudinal axis thereof and providing a pair of semi-cylindrical short portions, each lslightly flared, and asolid metal base of substantially se1ni-spherieal-form cast around the lower portion of and depending from the lower terminus of said standard and having its outer periphery uninterrupted throughout.

In testimony whereof, We afiix our signatures hereto.

LLOYD HENRY STERNER. HENRY M. LANDROTH. MINNIE ESTELLA STERNER.

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