US1495741A - Advertising mail-box support - Google Patents

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E. L. HIGDON. JR

ADVERTISING MAIL BOX SUPPORT Filed Sept. 5,

Patented May 27, 1924.

UNITED sras ELIJAH LEE HIGDON, JB., 0F BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

ADVERTISING MAIL-BOX SUPPORT.

Application filed September 5, 1922. Serial No. 586,188.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH LEE HIonoN, Jr., a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Mail-Box Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an advertising frame support for rural mail boxes which can be cheaply constructed; which will afford a firm and satisfactory mounting for the mail box; and which comprises a frame work preferably formed of light structural iron and containing an advertising panel adapted to form a brace for the light frame which is disposed at right angles to the road to display both sides of the panel to the road.

My invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part-of this specification, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a mail box mounted on my improved advertising frame support. 7

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of the mail box as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4; shows a light structural metal frame with the advertising panel and mail box detached.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated, I show a mail box. 1 of the ordinary rural delivery type which is mounted on a frame preferably formed of light angle irons and comprising a vertical front member 2, a short horizontal top member 3 and an inclined rear member I, the members '2 and 4 being connected near their lower ends by the cross brace member 5. I thus form a support having its front leg vertical, its rear leg inclined, and having a space formed between the members 2, 3, 4 and 5 which forms a frame adapted to receive a metal sheet 6 which acts like a gusset plate to brace the frame and which forms an advertising panel. The lower ends of the members 2 and 4 are intended to be anchored in concrete foundations 7 and 8, respectively, and the flange of the front leg 2, which stands parallel with the road, is provided with a pair of bolt holes 9 adapted to receive any suitable roadway sign for the direction of travelers, or for advertisin purposes, but such a sign should be 0 such character as not to interfere with the vision of the main advertising panel 6, as the mail box is approached in either direction along the roadway 10. The angle irons forming the support all having their sides at right angles to the roadway 1 ing on the same side of the panel, the rame itself being mounted at right angles to this roadway with its horizontal top flange formed by the member 3 carrying bolts or like fastenings 11 which project through the box bottom and receive nuts 12 or like fastenings by which the mail box itself is rigidly attached to the frame. The bolts 13 which are utilized to connect the frame members together at their intersections also serve to mount the bracing and advertising panel 6 snugly in place in the frame, thus makin the construction strong, durable, light an inexpensive, and at the same time providing an effective mounting for the mail box and a most attractive advertising display.

It will be observed that the vertical leg 2 is disposed so as to be overhung by the end of the mail box adjacent to the road, thus making it possible for the mail carrier to drive up to the mail box and both collect and distribute mail without interference with the support for the box.

Though I have described with great particularity the details of the embodiment of the invention herein shown, it is not to be construed that I am limited thereto as changes in arrangement and substitution of equivalents may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- Y the space bound by the connections and intergles, the top frame connection carrying posed leg sections and mounted on the frame means to mount a mail box no position over- Work, the frame Work being formed of anhanging said front leg. 1o

gles all disposed to have one side thereof In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. 5 overlap the same side of the advertising ELIJAH LEE HIGDON, JR.

panel Which is adapted to fit snugly within Witness:

the frame Work by the other side of the an- NOMIE WELSH,

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