US3883969A - Animated surface display device - Google Patents

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US3883969A
US3883969A US267234A US26723472A US3883969A US 3883969 A US3883969 A US 3883969A US 267234 A US267234 A US 267234A US 26723472 A US26723472 A US 26723472A US 3883969 A US3883969 A US 3883969A
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    • G09F11/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a movable support which brings it to the display position
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  • these display 40/36 devices may be utilized for advertising, decorative or teaching purposes, or they may be employed in various indicator systems.
  • ABSTRACT The invention relates to a display device of the kind 10 Claims, 16 Drawing Figures a. t E
  • the present invention has for its object a device ofthe kind comprising at least one animated surface formed by the juxtaposition of separate facets belonging individually to separate mobile elements.
  • these mobile elements are flexible sheets which are passed so as to form a U on individual guiding means arranged in the plane of the animated surface, and which are coupled, at the rear of these guiding means, to driving means adapted to permit them to slide on their respective guiding means.
  • This arrangement has the especial advantage of permitting, if desired, a very high definition of the animated pictures obtained, and an advantageous progressive transition of the successive images which can be presented.
  • This arrangement also possesses the advantage of facilitating an extension of the field of application of the animated surface device which is provided with it; a device of this kind may be employed equally well as an advertisement poster and as a sign, representation, indicator panel, demonstration panel, theatre scenery, display board, etc.
  • FIG. 1 is a view in perspective with parts broken away, of an animated surface device according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a partial view in perspective of a series of flexible sheets utilized in this device
  • FIGS. 3A, 3B are diagrammatic views in side elevation of these flexible sheets, illustrating respectively the extreme positions of the sheets;
  • FIGS. 4A-4B, 5A-5B, 6A-6B are views respectively similar to FIGS. 3A-3B and relate to various alternative forms of construction;
  • FIG. 7 is a view similar to FIG. 2 and illustrates a further alternative form of construction
  • FIG. 8 is a view in perspective similar to FIG. 2 and illustrates a special form of embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a partial view in perspective of an alternative form of construction of the guiding means for the flexible sheets according to the invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a partial view in side elevation of another alternative form of construction of the said guiding means.
  • FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic plan view of an alternative form of construction of the driving means associated with the flexible sheets according to the invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a diagrammatic view in side elevation similar to FIGS. 3A to 6B and is concerned with another alternative form of embodiment of the invention.
  • a device of this kind comprises, for each of these animated surfaces, a frame formed by two vertical angle-irons 10A, 108 respectively, coupled together by two horizontal cross-members 11A, 11B.
  • angle-irons 10A, 10B of the frame A are coupled to each other in the example shown by a system of parallel sections 12A which form between them slots 13A.
  • transverse dimension of these sections may have any desired value; however, the slots which separate them are preferably as narrow as possible.
  • transverse dimension of these sections determines the fineness of definition of the animated images obtained, as will become apparent later.
  • this distance apart may be of the order of 30 cm.
  • each section 12A, 12B there is associated with each section 12A, 12B a mobile element formed by a quadrangular flexible sheet 15A, 15B placed in the form of a U on the corresponding sections 12A and 128 by means of the slots 13A and 138 which separates these sections.
  • the flexible sheets thus each form two sides, one upper and the other lower, and there are two sets of flexible sheets.
  • the sections 12A and 12B constitute flat individual guiding means for the sheets 15A and 15B, and are arranged in the plane of the frames A and B, that is to say in the plane of the corresponding animated surfaces, these animated surfaces being thus constituted by the juxtaposition of these parts of the sheets which cover the outer surface of the corresponding sections 12A and 128.
  • the flexible sheets 15A and 15B are unfolded perpendicularly to the ani mated surfaces A and B, behind these latter, where they are associated with driving means.
  • these driving means associate any flexible sheet 15A of the frame A to the corresponding flexible sheet 15B of the frame B. They are provided, at the two angles of one of the sides of these sheets 15A and 15B, with oblique rigid connectors 18, common to the two flexible sheets 15A and 15B and rigidly fixed respectively to driving rods 19 which extend parallel to the angle-irons 10A and 10B of the frames A and B, on each side of these frames, and which are common to all the flexible sheets 15A and 158.
  • these driving means further comprise straight connectors 20 which couple together two by two the sheets A and 15B of each frame A and B to the other, at the corners of the other sides of these sheets.
  • the driving rods 19 are provided at their extremities with threaded blocks 21 engaged by screwing on threaded rods 22, and these rods are rotatably mounted on the frame of the device, between the frames A and B of this device.
  • the flexible sheets In the example shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 slide two by two simultaneously in opposite direcfected in opposite directions by a suitable choice of the direction of screwing of the corresponding threaded rods 22.
  • FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate an alternative form of construction, in which a free space 31, shown diagrammatically by broken lines 32, is formed between the free edges of the flexible sheets 15A and 15B of the device shown in FIG. 1 by a sliding movement of these flexible sheets limited in amplitude for that purpose, and also by an appropriate choice of their length.
  • This free space 31 may be advantageously utilized for housing lighting means, such as vertical tubes 33 for example, in the interior of the device according to the invention.
  • the device according to the invention may be utilized either with flexible sheets previously provided on their surface with printing, designs, inscriptions or other suitable images, or with-virgin flexible sheets on which such designs, printing or inscriptions are applied after the sheets have been placed in position.
  • This design may beapplied in any appropriate manner, for example. by serigraphy (silk screen process).
  • the width of the sections may be increased and may, for example, be greater than or equal to 4 cm., the number of different images which it is possible to show successively being reduced inconsequence.
  • the images produced by the device according to'the invention are clearly .visible. at a surfaces by light projection
  • the animation of the images that is to say their successive presentation, constitutes the sole apparent movement, and this presentation is therefore very good.
  • the device according'to the invention may be pro- V v, I I v I I y of ten watts for example, it may be fed from a battery or accumulator.
  • the flexible sheets according to the invention which constitute the mobile image-carrier elements may be readily interchanged in case of need, which, with their possibilities of being printed in situ by means of current printing methods, assist in an advantageous reduction of the cost price of the animated images obtained.
  • These flexible sheets may be of any appropriate material, simple or composite, especially of fabric, paper, synthetic material, of plastic film such as poly-tere phthalate of ethylene, polyethylene, etc., of a composite or complex product comprising a support of flexible material and a coating sheet of a fabric, paper, synthetic material or the like, and/or they may have on their surface an emulsion or a sensitive coating enabling them to receive a photographic impression directly.
  • the designs applied on these flexible sheets may be effected by perforating the sheets.
  • they may be intended for advertising, decorative, or teaching purposes, or alternatively they may be employed in various indicator systems.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrates two particular forms of construction.
  • any one of the flexible sheets A of the animated surface A forms a continuous assembly with the corresponding flexible sheets 15B of the animated surface B, and the assembly 25 thus constituted is integral with a similar assembly 35 in its immediate vicinity, the two assemblies being for example produced by a single continuous band suitably folded from one of its free edges 36 to the other.
  • a flexible sheet of the animated surface A is directly coupled by itself to a flexible sheet of the animated surface B.
  • the flexible sheets 15A associated with the animated surface A are formed by the successive folds of a single continuous band 38, and this is also the case for the flexible sheets 15B, associated with the animated surface B.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates an alternative form of construction, in which the guiding means associated with a flexible band 15A for example are reduced to two projections M) provided on two opposite edges of the animated surface A at a distance from and in the extension of each other.
  • a sheet ISA is simply engaged by its edges on these projections, of which only one can be seen in FIG. 9.
  • Such projections may be produced for example by forming indentations on the vertical members of the frame delimiting the corresponding'animated surface.
  • the guiding means associated with a flexible sheet are constituted by a roller 41 rotatably mounted with respect to the frame delimiting the corresponding animated surface.
  • these guiding means are slots or alternatively rods, tubes, cross-members or the like, which, as in the construction shown in FIG. I, run over the whole corresponding dimension of the animated surface, and
  • FIG. 11 is a plan view illustrating an alternative form of construction, in which the driving means for a flexible sheet ISA or 158 comprise flexible connectors 42A, 428, coupled to the corners of a free edge of this sheet, the said connectors being passed over the rollers 43 common to all the sheets, and coupled at a point 44A, 443 to these latter.
  • driving means such as a motor or a manual crank-handle, as in the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 1.
  • the flexible connector 42A for example is coupled, not to the nearest corner of the corresponding flexible sheet, but to the farthest corner of this latter, after a return around the flexible sheet, which increases the useful travel of the sheet.
  • a broken line 50 in FIG. 11 the flexible connector 42A for example is coupled, not to the nearest corner of the corresponding flexible sheet, but to the farthest corner of this latter, after a return around the flexible sheet, which increases the useful travel of the sheet.
  • the flexible sheets 15A and 158 may be oblique on the animated surfaces A and B which they form, which enables the overall dimension in depth of the device to be reduced. It will be noted that in FIG. 12, the angle C is shown as being of the order of by way of example.
  • this angle C may have any other appropriate value, depending on the applications, and in particular it may be made almost zero when it is desired to produce flat elements such as card carriers, pockets or the like.
  • the sections which serve as guiding means for the flexible sheets may be fluorescent or phosphorescent, or even reflecting.
  • these sections may be hollow and can thus serve as a housing for a lighting means such as a tube or the like, at least a part of the internal surface of the said sections being lightreflecting.
  • the internal space of the chassis or frame in which the flexible sheets are housed is put under a slight superatmospheric pressure, which ensures a slight inflation of these sheets and facilitates their sliding movement on their guiding means by the interposition of a film of air, this sliding movement then taking place practically without friction.
  • a display device comprising a plurality of separate facets juxtaposed in a first plane and forming an animated surface therein, said facets belonging individually to a plurality of quadrangular flexible sheets, a first plurality of guiding means disposed in said first plane and having a width not more than about 1 centimeter and a length not less than about 1 meter, each of said flexible sheets passing over one of said guiding means in the shape of a U and thus forming two parallel sides, a second plurality of second guiding means disposed in a second plane parallel to said first plane, the two sides of each said flexible sheet being coupled to each other by flexible linking means passing over one of said second guiding means in the shape of a U, and driving means connected to said flexible sheets at the rear of their guiding means and enabling said flexible sheets to effect a sliding movement on their respective guiding means, the said driving means being coupled to said flexible sheets by a plurality of lateral connectors fixed only to the corners of one side, the end of each said side of each flexible sheet being wholly free from any
  • said guiding means for a flexible sheet comprise a fixed crossmember extending over the whole corresponding dimension of said corresponding animated surface.
  • each flexible sheet of an animated surface is determined in such manner as always to leave a free space between the free edges of said flexible sheet and the free edges of the flexible sheet of the other animated surface, and in which lighting means are disposed in said free space.
  • a device as claimed in claim 1 in which said flexible sheets are arranged into a frame, the internal space of which is maintained at a slight superatmospheric pressure.
  • a display device comprising one first plurality of separate facets juxtaposed in a first plane and forming a first animated surface therein, said facets belonging individually to a first plurality of first quadrangular flexible sheets, a first plurality of first guiding means disposed in the said first plane and having a width not more than about 1 centimeter and a length not less than about 1 meter, each of said first sheets passing over one of said first guiding means in the shape of a U and thus forming two parallel sides, driving means connected to said first flexible sheets at the rear of their guiding means and enabling said first flexible sheets to effect a sliding movement on their respective guiding means, a second plurality of separate facets juxtaposed in a second plane parallel to said first plane and forming a second animated surface therein, said second facets belonging individually to a second plurality of second quadrangular flexible sheets, a second plurality of second guiding means disposed in the said second plane and having a width not more than about 1 centimeter and a length not less than about 1 meter, each

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