US2079303A

US2079303A - Advertising device

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Publication number: US2079303A
Application number: US107881A
Authority: US
Inventors: John B Pinner
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-10-27
Filing date: 1936-10-27
Publication date: 1937-05-04
Anticipated expiration: 1954-05-04

Description

May 4,1937. J. B. PINNER ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed 001;. 27, 1936 Patented May 4, 1937 STATS PATENT OFFICE Application October 2'7,

2 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in advertising devices, and it consists in the combinations, constructions, and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide an advertising device which may be set on the counter of a store or in some other conspicuous position, and which has movable parts so as to attract attention.

A further object is to provide an advertising device of the class described having a plurality of vanes or plates, each of which not only revolves about its central axis but revolves oppositely to the direction in which the whole group of said vanes revolves, thereby insuring the advertising matter on said vanes remaining in view longer than otherwise. Y

A further object is to provide a second group of vanes which revolves in the same direction as that in which the main group revolves, but oppositely to the vanes themselves in said main group.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming part of this application, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device,

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional View along the line 22 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a substantially horizontal section along the line 33 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a similar section along the line 4-4 of Figure 2, and

Figure 5 is a detail sectional view illustrating the support for the reversing idler.

In carrying out my invention I provide a base portion 5 in the form of a cylindrical box. Within this cylinder is a motor M having a speedreducing driving connection with the bottom extension of a shaft 5. Said driving connection consists of small and

large pulleys

4, 3 and a con- 40 necting belt 2. A bracket 1 is secured to the bottom of the box-like container 5, as shown at 8.

This bracket extends above the motor, as shown in Fig. 2. Mounted on the bracket is a stationary ring gear 9, spacers if] being provided and 45 the gear being secured to the bracket by means of bolts H or in any other suitable manner.

Secured to the shaft 6 is a rotatable vane supporting plate or top portion l2 which is provided with a thrust bearing l3 having anti-friction devices M. The

motor driving connection

2, 3, 4 may revolve the plate l2 either clockwise or counterclockwise, the clockwise direction (arrow a, Fig. 1) being chosen merely for illustration.

Carried by the plate I2 is a circular group of vanes I5. Each vane has a depending spindle IS Eli 1936, Serial No. 107,881

which passes through the plate I2, and the lower end of which fixedly carries a gear l! in mesh with an idler 30 (Fig. 4) which, in turn, is in mesh with the stationary ring gear 9. Each idler is suspended from the plate l2 by a support 31 on which the idler revolves. The effect of the intermediary idler 30 is to cause the respective vane l5 to revolve to a direction (counterclockwise in this instance, arrows b, Fig. l) opposite to. that of the plate I2, consequently opposite to that of the whole group of vanes, thereby keeping the advertising matter C in view longer than otherwise.

The upper end of the shaft 6 is secured to a box-like casing l8 of a diameter commensurate with that of the box casing or base 5. The shaft 6, plate I2 and casing l8 comprise a unit and, collectively, are the supporting means for the main group of vanes. The upper ends of the vanes have a stub-shaft or spindle 19 which is journaled in the lower wall of the casing 18.

One of the vanes has its stub-shaft l9 prolonged, and is provided with a pulley 20 thereon, which is connected by a crossed belt 21 with a pulley 22 on a spindle 23 which is journaled in a socket 24 at the upper end of the shaft 6. This spindle 23 passes through a central enlargement 25 of the casing l8. Secured to this central spindle 23 is an X-shaped frame 26 having slots for receiving advertising cards or plates 21 which may be placed therein on each side of each arm of the X-shaped frame.

A ball 28 or other ornamental object may be placed at the top of the X-shaped frame. The motor is designed to be actuated by a switch 32 having a plurality of speeds like a fan, these speeds being controlled by the turning of the thumb-wheel 29, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to positions indicated on the outer surface of the container or base 5. The specific features of the switch or rheostat which gives these desired speeds form no part of the present invention.

On turning the wheel 29 current is supplied to the motor which then rotates and revolves the plate l2 clockwise (arrow a, Fig. 1) and with it the casing I8, so that the main group of vanes revolves clockwise as a unit. The gears I! deriving motion from the stationary ring gear 9 by virtue of proceeding around it, but having the idlers 30 interposed, cause the rotation of each vane IE on its longitudinal central axis in the counterclockwise direction (arrows 6, Fig. l), the speed of revolution of each vane being the same since the gears are of equal diameter.

The rotation of one of the vanes l5, 1. e., the

one at the left shown in Fig. 2, causes the rotation of the shaft 23, but because of the belt 2| being crossed (Fig. 3) the direction of revolution of the X-shaped frame 26 is opposite to that of the vanes 15, but the same as that of the whole group of said vanes.

Therefore the advertising device presents the spectacle of a main group of vanes moving in one direction, the individual vanes of that group revolving in the opposite direction, and a lesser group of vanes which revolve in the same direction as the main group. The chief advantage of having the individual vanes of the main group revolve as they do, is to insure the advertising matter staying in view longer than otherwise, the foremost purpose of any advertising device being to impress the minds of the observers as deeply as possible. Y

I claim:

1. An advertising device which consists of a plurality of vanes, supporting means on which the vanes are arranged in a main and circular group, a second group of vanes carried by the supporting means, means to revolve the supporting means in 25 one direction, means to simultaneously revolve reference to the base, a ring gear and means by which it is affixed to the bracket, a plurality of vanes arranged in a main circular group in the space between said elements, each vane having a spindle journaled on said plate and carrying a pinion, an idler between each pinion and the ring gear and means by which the idlers are carried by the plate, a second group of vanes above one of the elements and having a spindle which is journaled in a socket in the shaft, and means to drive the last said spindle from one of the main vanes.

JOHN B. PINNER.