US1607042A

US1607042A - Advertising display device

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Publication number: US1607042A
Application number: US98870A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mathew P Bedel; Charles A Meurer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-03-31
Filing date: 1926-03-31
Publication date: 1926-11-16
Anticipated expiration: 1943-11-16

Description

NOV. 16 1926. 1,607,042

M. P. BEDEL ET AL ADVERTISING DISPLAY DEVICE Filed March 51 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l Nov. 16 1926. I 1,607,042

M. P. BEDEL a-r AL ADVERTISING DISPLAY DEVICE Filed March 31 1926 2 Sheets-Shet 2 :5 u

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Patented Nov. 16,1926.

I ADVERTISING DISPLAY DEVICE.

This invention relates particularly ,to a device which will attract the eye for the purpose of drawing attention to a product to be sold. p

. An object of the device is to employ a to tally unrelated subject to create or bring about the attention of. a prospective customer to a product to be sold, and to display. the product itself to best advantage whilst holding the attention through the agency of the A. further object is to produce a device in which the mechanism employed adapts itself to innumerable combinations of toys or figures and their gyrations, to usage in store windows and in other locations wherein an easily moved and readily portable advertising medium and joy producer for young and oldmay be employed. I r I These and other ob'ects are attained'in the device described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which I Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the device embodying our invention.

Fig. 2 is an end view, partially in section, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view in section upon the line 33 of Fig. 1.

The device we have shown has its mechanism mounted in any suitable manner, as

upon a base board 4, and enclosing the mech- ,1

anism is a casing 5. The top of the "casing carries a series of trapeze structures 6, 7 and 8 as well as two turntables 9 and 10 which carry the product or article to be displayed. Each of the trapeze structures carries a r-evolubly mounted horizontal bar 11, see Fig. 2, to which the arms of a propelling manikin 12 are rigidly attached. 'Also upon bar 11 trapeze 13 is pivotally swung. trapeze in turn carries a manikin 14which is pivotally attached thereto through its hands. By rotating the bar 11 the two manikins and the trapeze will be causedto operate in the performance of their gyrations as is very specifically described in U. S. Let ters Patent No. 1,329,623 issued February 3, 1920, to Charles A. Meurer, who is one of the inventors herein. No claim is made in the present invention to this feature and only general descriptive reference is made for' I this reason thereto. However, in th1spresent invention the rotation of bar 11 is attained by a pair of

miter gears

15 and 16, the former being secured to bar 11 and This.

f Application rum March 31, 1926., Serial No. 98,870.

the, latter to a vertical shaft 1'? which occupiesa hollow standard of the trapeze dc vice. Each of-the vertical shafts 17 is driven by a pair of

mitergears

18 and 19, the latter gear of each setof which is secured to a longitudinally extending horizontal shaft 20 which'is journalled in bearings 21,- 22and 23 on the base board.

Each of the'turntablesQ and 10 is mounted on a

respective shaft

24 and 25. These shafts carry respective 26 and'r27 which mesh with the gears 28 and 29, on a shaft30, softhatwhenoneturntable is rotated the other one will rotate also. 'To accomplish this we connect shaft 30 with shaft 20 'by means of a shortshaft upon which gears 31 and 32 are mounted, the for mer meshing with gear 26 and the-latter with a gear 33 on shaft 20. I

And now, in order to accomplish the driving of the acrobatic mani-kins and the turntables, we employ shaft 20 as the drive shaft and cause its rotation through the following mechanism. A motor 34 furnishesthe power.

miter gears A worm 35 of the motor shaft drives through worm gear 36 on a jack'shaft 37 which is carries aworm 40. This worm 40 in turn meshes with'a' gear 41 on a short shaft 42 which is journalled in a bearing 43 and car ries on its opposite end a crank disc 44.. This crank disc carries a connecting rod or pitman 45 and has provided thereon a series of teeth 46 which mesh with a gear'47 located between two guiding discs 48 and 49 on a short shaft which carries'a gear 50 meshing with a gear 51 on the drive shaft 20;

Thus power is transmitted throughout the structure in an unique and interesting manner, which, from the m0tor 34 to pitman is always a continuous and unidirectional motion, but, because "of the pitman 45, is changed into a reciprocating motion and thence into a reversingrotary motion starting with gear 47 This reversing rotary mo-- tion is carried through to

shafts

17, 24 and 'mounted in'bearings 38' and- 39 and which 25, and results in a rotation of the ,bars 11 as well as the turntables 9 and 10 in one di-v rection for a period oftime. and'then in a complete reversal and rotation of these elements in the opposite direction for a further and equal period of time. Of course the proportioning of speeds, number of IQtPUDIOIIS' and other features may be governed by deslgnmg the mechanism and gear ratios to meet the requirements.

1. A display device comprising a series of' display mechanisms, a shaft adapted to operate each display mechanism, a drive shaft for said mechanism shafts, gears on said shafts for transmitting motion from one to the other, and means for transmitting oscillating rotary motion to the drive shaft, consisting of a crank, a'pinion operatively con nected with the drive shaft, a pitman connected at one end with the crank and having rack gearteeth formed at theopposite end for engagement with the teeth of the pinion,

and means for rotatingthe crank;

2. YA display device'comprising a series of display mechanisms of one type, a series of display devices of another type, avshaft extending from and adapted to operate each display device, a drive shaft extending adjacent to and adapted to operate the display mechanisms of the first mentioned type, gears connecting the shaft and the drive shaft of the'first mentioned type, a'drive shaft extending adjacent'and adapted to operate the display mechanisms of the second mentioned type, gears connecting the shafts and the drive shafts of the second mentioned type, means operatively connecting the drive shafts, acrank," a geared pinion, a pitman operatively connected atone end with the crank and having rack teeth on its opposite I end for cooperation with the teeth of the means adapted to drive the crank.

3. A displaydevice comprising a series of "display mechanisms of a type designed for indirect advertising, a series of display clevices of a type designed for direct advertising and alternating in position with that of the first mentioned type, a shaft extending from and adapted to operate each display device, a drive shaft extending adjacent to and adapted to operate the display mechanisms of the first mentioned type, means operativeiy connecting the shaft and the'drive shaft of the first'mentionedtype, a drive shaft extending adjacent to and adapted to operate the display mechanisms of the second mentioned type, means operatively connecting the shafts and the drive shaft of the second mentioned type, means operatively connecting the drive shafts, a crank, a

geared pinion, a pitman operatively connected atone end with the crank, and having rack teeth at its opposite end for cooperation with the teeth of the pinion, means operatively connecting the pinion with the drive shafts, a source of power, and speed reduction I mechanism o-peratively connect ing the source of power and the crank.

In witness whereof, we-afiix our signatures. r.

MATHEW RBEDEL; CHARLES A. MEURER.