US1683921A - Street sign - Google Patents

Description

Patented Sept. 11,1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES G. ROSS, on SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR or FORTY PER 'oENT To ELSIE GUYER, E SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

STREET SIGN.

Application filed July 27,

This invention relates to signs and more particularly to a Sign adapted to be suspended from an overhead support at a street intersection to indicate the names of the interseeting streets.

One objectot the invention is to so construct the Sign that it may be firmly engaged with its overhead support and prevented from becoming detached from the support or having movement which would prevent it from being easily read.

Another object of the invention is to form the Sign of strong shcetmetal and to somark its faces that it may not only indicate the names of the intersecting streets but also indicate the street numbers of the blocks adjoining the intersection.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side'elevation showing the improved sign suspended from an arm carried by a light post;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the sign;

Fig. 3 a vertical sectional view through the sign, and

Fig. -l is fragmentary sectional view showing a m rlilied means for connecting the sign with its supporting arm.

The s n. which 1s indicated in general by the numeral 1, has been shown suspended from a depending'end portion 2 of an arm 3 secured to a lamp post l in any desired manner and projecting transversely therefrom. This arm 3 may be disposed at any height desired upon the lamp post 4S0 that the sign may be easily read by persons approaching a street intersection upon a sidewa k or in the street. The sign is formed of strong sheet metal and is preferably substantially rectangular in shape and disposed to provide side corners and upper and lower corners. A neck 5 projects from the upper corner of the sign and intermediate its length is bent to provide an oilset upper portion 6 having a shoulder at its lower. end. By referring to Fig. it will be seen that the lower end of the depen ng portion 2 of the suspending arm 3 tapers to a point and, therefore, when forming the ofi set upper portion 6, the neck is so bent that the shoulder 7 will conform to the taper of the lower end of the suspending arm. It will be understood, however, that, if desired, the depending end of the suspending arm may have its lower end out stra ght across in which case the neck would be simi- 1927. Serial No. 208,839.

may employ bolts 8 which are passed through ahned openings 9 and 10 in the arm and neck and carries a securing nut 11 or a tongue 12 may be cut from the depending arm, as shown 1n 4,"and after being passed through an opening in the neck bent into engagement with the outer face of the offset upper end.

portion of the neck. In either easethe sign will be securely but releasably held in engagement with the depending free end portion of its suspending arm. I It. should be further noted that since the lower end of the depending suspending arm has flat contacting engagement with the shoulder 7 movement of the Si n transversely of the suspending arm will be prevented and, therefore, the sign will be retained in the vertical position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In the preferred form, each face of the sign is bent to define a vertically extending arrow 18 having a head 14 at its lower end and a horizontally extending arrow 15 having heads 16 at its ends. The name of one street is marked upon the arrow or strip 13, as shown in Fig. 2, and the numeral designating the major numeral of the street addresses of houses in the next block. The cross strip or arrow 15 also bears the name of the intersecting stret, compass points, and the numerals constituting the major numerals o'f houses in the adjoining blocks. Therefore, a person walking along a street which may be 8th Avenue, as shown in Fig. 2, may know that he is at the intersection of 8th Avenue and Market Street and by reading the sign will know that upon crossing 9 Market Street he will be in the 200 block of 8th Avenue. If he desires to turn into Market Street, he will know that the adjoining block to the east of 8th Avenue is the 100 block of Market Street, whereas the adjoining block of Market Street to the west side of 8th Avenue is the 500 block. It is prefered to color the strips 13 and 15 of the sign White and the remainder of the sign and street names black so that the sign may be very easily read but other color schemes maybe substituted if so desired.

Having thus described the invention, I claim:

1. In a device of thecharacter described, a

11ers, and an attaching neck extending from the upper end of said body and having an offset upper portion adapted to be secured to a support, and formed with a V-shaped shoulder to bear against the lowerend of the support, said body having a face marked to define a verticalily extending strip and a cross strip, intersectingvthe Vertical strip, the Vertical strip terminating in an arrow head at the lower corner portion of the body and hav ing its upper end portion extending alongsaid neck and shaped to define a feathered end for the arrow by the V-shaped shoulder, the cross strip terminating in arrow heads at the side corners of the body, said strips having the nan'ies of intersecting streets provided thereon. r

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JAMES e. ROSS. L 8.

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