US943941A - Announcement-board. - Google Patents

Description

.1T. KING. v ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1908.

943,941 Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

HOFFMAN HOUSE- STOCKSl N LAST LATEST NEWS A T y Pm AND TvE/ 43: T0 ON 450 O0 I IV END 4% U62 k- LTERS !ON ON ENN. 0w. 9

Wihwoow W. N. KING.

ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR? 1a, 1908.

943,941 Patented Dec. 21, 1909. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

I 6 WITNESSES: r VE/VTU/i M a. W W W v ATTORNEY mawzw. a GRAHAM co. rmo'ro-unuxmweasv wAsnmcmN. nv c.

" T" .tiliilliu WILLIAIVI NEPHEVI KING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANNOUNCEMENT-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Dec. 21, 19 99.

Application filed March 18, 1908. Serial No. 421,775.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, YVILLIAM Nnrrmw Kins, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Announcement- Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to announcement boards, and especially to those used in quoting or announcing prices and information about stocks. It may, however, be used for other announcements, for advertising purposes or displays of various kinds.

Gne of the objects of the invention is to provide a board that can be readily moved from one place to another-out on the floor during business hours and removed and stored after the close of the market.

Another object is to provide a board that the quotations thereon can be readily observed.

Another object is to so construct the board that the different quotations can be readily changed.

Other objects will appear from the hereinafter description.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, and in the different views, in wl ich the same reference character tofers to the same part.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of the board. Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view on a large scale showing one of the cards carrying the quotation. Fig. &' is an enlarged detail view of the means for holding said card.

The part marked it on the drawing is what may be termed the board proper, which is supported upon a knockdown easel B. This board it rests upon pins 6, o, of the easel, and it consists of a back piece a two end pieces (4 top and bottom pieces a at, and a front piece a forming a box like construction. Secured to the back piece is a reflector C, preferably a mirror. Secured in the space between the mirror and the front piece is a light, preferably a Cooperiewitt light D, although other means of illumination may be employed.

To the front a is secured a series of horizontal strips E and vertical strips F, dividing the front of the board into a series of spaces 5 g g 9 g and g Tie material in the spaces g, g and g is opaque with translucent letters formed therein. The letters in the space 9 form tl e name of the firm using the board; those in the spaces g form the headings, such as Stocks, Open Last and Latest news, and the letters in 9 also translucent, are the initials or ab breviations of the stocks quoted. The rest of the front plate is translucent, and the horizontal and vertical strips over this translucent part are opaque. These opaque horizontal strips have an undercut portion on their lower edges forming grooves G represents removable translucent plates, preferably made of glass, celluloid, or any other like material suitable to carry the stock quotations and the latest news in opaque letters. These plates can be readily placed on or removed from the board by slipping the upper edge thereof in the grooved portion 2 of the strips hereinabove referred to.

in use, the board is set up on the easel in any desired place, and readily changed from one location to another by moving it on the casters 6. It is to be understood that the board may be set up in other ways than on an easel, this being my preferred means of setting it up when used for stock announcements.

Vi hen the light is turned on it is reflected forward by the mirror C, and the letters and figures appear on either the opaque or trans lucent portion of the front plate, the letters being in sharp contrast to the background. As the quotations change, the attendant removes the translucent card carrying the iuotations and substitutes another, repeating this operation at each change of the latest news.

its many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, I intend that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be in terpreted as illustrative and not in a limit ing sense. I desire it also to be understood that the language used in the following claims intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all s atements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having now described my invention, whathis I claim as new and desire to secure by Letplate, one edge of each strip being plain and ters Patent is: the other having an undercut part forming a 1. In a device of the class described, a reflange, translucent cards having opaque flector, a translucent plate separated from characters thereon between said Strips and 5 the reflector, vertical and horizontal strips removably held in place by said flange, and 20 dividing the plate into sections, the horizona source of light between the plate and retal strips having projections thereon, transflector. lucent cards having opaque letters, said cards In Witness whereof I have hereunto set located between said horizontal strips and my hand at the city, county and State of 10 held in place by said projections, and a New York, this twentieth day of February, 25

source of light between the plate and re- 1908.

I flector. t WILLIAM NEPHElV KING.

2. In a device of the class described, a re- In presence of flector, a translucent plate separated from FRANK T. EARLE, 5 the reflector, horizontal strips secured to the 1 VVM. F. EWING.

Images