US3032362A

US3032362A - Banner hanging implement

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Publication number: US3032362A
Application number: US840291A
Authority: US
Inventors: Paul A Lovejoy
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1959-09-16
Filing date: 1959-09-16
Publication date: 1962-05-01
Anticipated expiration: 1979-05-01

Description

United States Patent O 3,032,362 BANNER HANGING IMPLEMENT Paul A. Lovejoy, Box 488, Plain City, Ohio Filed Sept. 16, 1959, Ser. No. 840,291 6 Claims. (Cl. 294-19) the problem of placing banners or the like in a high position in a store or any other location by materially facilitating this task. Ordinarily, a person hanging banners will use a ladder. At best, the use of a ladder is dangerous, especially in situations where the ladder is not always of the best grade or in the best condition. Furthermore, numerous trips up and down the ladder are required together with a shifting of position of the ladder between trips.

The device to facilitate hanging of the banners is characterized by an extensible handle together with an arm which is movable between a stored position within a cavity at one end of the handle, and an operative position at which it is arranged at approximately right angles to the longitudinal axis of the handle. There are resilient means operatively connected with the handle and the arm to yieldingly hold it in the operative position so that it will remain in place. The arm functions as a support over which a banner may be hung, after which the handle, arm and banner are elevated so that the banner may be deposited on the string. This procedure may be repeated any number of times until all of the banners are hung. Thereafter, the handle can be returned to the non-extended position and the arm restored to the storage cavity.

These, together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent, reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIGURE 1 is a side elevational view of the device in the operative position at which it may be used.

FIGURE 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device in the inoperative position.

FIGURE 3 is a top view of the device in FIGURE 1 but on an enlarged scale.

FIGURE 4 is a sectional view showing a detail of construction.

FIGURE 5 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 6 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 7 is a sectional view taken on the line 77 of FIGURE 4.

In the accompanying drawings there is illustrated a device 10 to facilitate hanging banners, flags or the like on an elevated support, for example, a wire or rope which is strung well above the average height which a person may ordinarily reach. Device 10 is made of an elongated tubular handle 12 having a hand grip 14 at one end, tO-i gether with an arm or bar 16 over which one or more banners may be placed.

Handle 12 is extensible, preferably in telescopic fashion. It comprises two tubular female and

male sections

18 and 20, respectively, which are slidably disposed with reference to each other, tube 20 sliding in the bore of tube 18. Hand grip 14 is preferably made of an elastomeric substance and may be in the form of a socket with a hole 22 at one end. Section 18 has a transverse slit or opening 24 intermediate the ends thereof but adjacent to the end opposite to that end on which hand grip 14 is secured. Clamp 26 consisting of a split, resilient ring or 3,032,362 Patented May 1, 1 962 circular band 28 with

end wings

29 and 30 accommodating screw 32 is secured on the outer surface of section 18 at slit 24. It is evident from an inspection of FIGURE 6 that when the clamp 26 is tightened, the handle sections are held in a selected extended position with reference to each other, the end portions of the split ring 28 engaging the section 20 through the opening 24. Loosening the clamp will enable the sections to be more easily slid together in netted position (FIGURE 2).

Arm 16 has a slot 34 extending longitudinally thereof. The arm may occupy two positions (FIGURES 2 and 3), one being in cavity 36 and the other being on the exterior of the cavity and extending transversely across the handle at approximately right angles to the longitudinal axis thereof. Cavity 3 8 is defined by a portion of the bore of tube 20, and there is a transverse pin 40 attached to and extending across said cavity at the upper, outer end thereof. The pin extends through slot 34 and functions as a guide and a pivot for arm 16.

An open ended cap or short, tubular female end section 42 is fixed, for instance, by rivets or screws 44 or like fasteners, to the outer part of the male section 20 and forms a continuation thereof. Resilient means, for instance, a coil spring 46, is disposed in open ended cap 42, one end of spring 46 bearing on the outer extremity of section 20, and the other end of the spring bearing against pin 40. There is an upwardly opening notch 48 at the outer terminal of cap 42, and it functions as a seat within which arm 16 rests when in the extended position.

In operation, the banners are strung over arm 16 when the arm is in the extended position (FIGURE 2). Then the banners, together with the upper part of the device, are elevated so that the banners may be simply slipped over the overhead wire or the like elevated support.

To operate the devise 10, it is assumed that the starting position is as shown in FIGURE 2. Arm 16 is simply withdrawn from the outer end of cavity 38, pin 40 guiding the arm in its movement. When pulled all the way out to the limit of slot 34, arm 16 is pivotally moved about the longitudinal axis of pin 40 until it assumes a position at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the handle. Then the arm is slid back, while it rests between the sides of notch 48, until the arm extends approximately equidistant to both sides of the longitudinal axis of the handle. In this position, spring 48 (see FIGURE 4) bears against a surface of the arm and holds it tightly and neatly in place.

Thereafter, the clamp 26 may be loosened sufiiciently to allow the sections of the handle to be slid with reference to each other. When the desired handle length is established, clamp 26 is tightened and the device is ready for use. In order to return the device 10 to the collapsed and inoperative position, the above procedure is reversed.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A banner hanging device comprising an elongated tubular handle including telescopic male and female sections and a comparatively short, open end female end section fixedly mounted on the outer end portion of said male section and having diametrically opposite notches in its outer end portion, a pin mounted diametrically in said end section between the notches, a banner supporting bar pivotally and slidably mounted on said pin and engageable in the notches and having a longitudinal slot therein receiving the pin for mounting said bar in an 3 operative, slidably adjustable position transversely on one end of the handle, said bar further being slidably insertable longitudinally in the handle to an inoperative position, and resilient means in the handle and engaged with the bar for frictionally securing the bar in said operative position.

2. A banner hanging device comprising an elongated tubular handle including telescopic male and female sections and a comparatively short, open end female end section fixedly mounted on the outer end portion of said male section and having diametrically opposite notches in its outer end portion, a pin mounted diametrically in said end section between the notches, a banner supporting bar pivotally and slidably mounted on said pin and engageable in the notches and having a longitudinal slot therein receiving the pin for mounting said bar in an operative, slidably adjustable position transversely on one end of the handle, said bar further being slidably insert-able longitudinally in the handle to an inoperative position, and resilient means for frictionally securing the bar in said operative position, said means including a coil spring mounted under compression in the end section between the male section and the pin and slidably receiv ing the bar when said bar is inserted in the handle.

3. A banner hanging device comprising an elongated tubular handle including an open end portion having oppositely disposed notches therein, a pin mounted diametrically in the handle between the notches, a bar slidably insertable to an inoperative position in the handle through the open end thereof and slidably and pivotally mounted on the pin and having a longitudinal slot therein receiving said pin, said bar being engageable in the notches for mounting said bar in a transverse operative position on the handle, and a spring in the handle engageable with the bar for frictionally securing same in said operative position in conjunction with the pin.

4. A banner hanger in accordance with claim 3, Wherein said spring includes a coil mounted concentrically in the handle and encircling the bar when said bar is in said inoperative position.

5. A banner hanger in accordance with claim 4, Wherein the bar is slidable through the coil between said operative and inoperative positions.

6. A banner hanger in accordance with claim 5, Wherein said handle includes a male section and a female end section fixed on one end portion thereof and projecting longitudinally therefrom, said coil being mounted under compression in the end section between said male section and the pin.

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