US1337237A - Hoisting and displaying device - Google Patents

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P. LIGHT. HOISTING AND DISPLAYING DEVICE. APPLICATION men OCT. I. ma.

1,337,237, Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

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P. LIGHT.

I HOISTING AND DISPLAYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1- I919.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

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PETER LIGHT, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

HOISTING AND DISPLAYING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Application filed October 1, 1919. Serial No. 327, 714.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER LIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hoisting and Displaying Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hoisting devices and to flags, banners, signs or other display devices; and the objects of my improvement are to provide an attractive sign for advertising purposes or the like, which will as nearly as possible be proof against derangement by the wind, or moisture, ice, or other weather manifestations, as well as by tampering; .and which will at the same time be readily changed or renewed; and which will be readily kept in repair. A further object is to provide secure and readily manipulated means for supporting flags, pennants, streamers or the like, and for raising and lowering them; and which will keep such flags and the like in full display regardless of the direction of the wind. Other objects will appear in the course of the ensuing description.

I attain these objects by t. device illustrated, for example, in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the entire device; with a single sign or banner displayed;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper part only, with two opposite flags or signs dis played, and also showing by dotted lines, how the device displays two opposite triangular flags, streamers or pennants, or signs of this shape;

Fig. 3 is a partial plan view showing four equally distributed spars for displaying that many flags, signs, streamers of the like:

Fig. 4 is a partial side elevation of the lower part of the device, open for raising or lowering the display, and indicating by the inclined dotted line the position of the cable when the lower housing is a considerable distance above the ground;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view, enlarged, of an upper part of the device, showing one of the hangers and associated elements;

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification of the attachment of the fla banner, sign, streamer or the like;

ig. 7 is a sectional side elevation, en-

larged, with intermediate and lower end parts represented as broken away and omitted, for lack of space;

Fig. 8 is a similar sectional'front elevation; and

Fig. 9 is a side elevation of the staff, spar and associated parts, with intermediate parts of the staff represented as broken away and omitted, for lack of space.

As herein shown, and as I prefer to construct my invention, the mast or pole comprises the lower base section 1 and the middle section 2, joined by a lower housing 8. These sections are preferably of iron pipe, the base section being of larger diameter than the middle section and being set in a suitable manner, preferably by the concrete setting 4, in the ground (Fig. 1). The setting a may have a flat paving extension 5 all around the pole as shown.

The base-section 1 may be of any desired length to support the housing 3 any desired height above the ground, either at a height to be conveniently reached by standing on the ground, or at a greater height, to be reached by a portable ladder or the like. This housing 3 is like a pipe-coupling, being threaded at its lower and upper ends. of sizes to receive the. respective pole sc tions 1 and 2. In addition, it preferably has the reinforcing bushings 6 and 7 screwed into enlarged threaded parts of its ends and fitting tightly around the respective pole sections 1 and 2 (Fig. 7). to prevent breaking at the pipe threads.

The front of this housing 3 has a door opening 8 with a door 9 having a lower transverse hinge pin 10 on which it swings open downwardly, Preferably there is a flanged roller 11 journaled on the hinge pin 10 in the middle of the hinge and exposed at the bottom of the door opening when the door 9 swings open. At the-upper end of the door opening 8 an ear 12 projects forwardly, and the upper end of the door 9 has lugs 13 that flank the ear 12 when the door 9 is closed, through which ear a padlock 14 may be secured in front of the lugs 13.

Just inside the door opening 8, the lower sheave 15 is journaied on a transverse pin 16 held in the opposite housing sides.

The middle pole section 2 extends up a desired distance, preferably being a full 1 sions 19,

pipe-length, as these pipes are obtained in the market, and there is a top pole-section 17, which may also be iron pipe, connected to the upper end of the middle section 2 by a. connecting head 18. This head 18 is like a pipe-coupling, screwed to the adjacent ends of the pole sections 2 and 17 in the usual manner. As here shown, the top sec tion 17 is of thesame diameter as the middle section 2; but it may be smaller, with the ends of the head 18 threaded accordingly.

This head 18 has opposite lateral extenpreferably the full height and width of the head, with fiat faces.

The top housing 20 preferablytcomprises the bottom section 21 with a bottom neck 22 threaded and screwed onto the upper end of the top pole section 17, and the top section 23 in the shape of a roof slanting down in four directions from its center and extending out over the lower or bottom section 21. The apex or center of the top section 23 may have any suitable device such as the ornament 24 shown, ora weather vane or the like.

These top- housing sections 21 and 23 are joined in a horizontal plane, sheaves 25 have their preferably integral spindles 26 the housing. These sheaves 25 are of such diameter and so positioned that their inner parts overhang the interior of the hollow pole or mast, and their outer parts extend out a considerable distance at opposite sides of the exterior thereof. The bottom section 21 l of the respective sheaves 25. Otherwise, this housing 20 completely inclose the sheaves 25; being elongated transversely and having its partsinside next to the sheaves curved, to conform closely tothe sheaves.

The swivel head 28 surrounds the middle pole section 2 and is slidable up and down thereon between the lower housing 3 and the connecting head 18. It preferably comprises a central nipple 29 with its lower end screwed into a flange-disk 30 and its upper end screwing into a collar 31. has opposite pairs of ears 32. Y The swivel hub 33 surrounds the nipple 29 between the lower disk 30 and the upper collar 31, by which latter it is held down on ball-bearings 34 on the disk 30. It has a series of flat-faced bosses 35, in this example four in'number, facing in various directions, around its sides.

Links 36 have their lower parts pivoted between the respective opposite pairs of ears 32 of the .collar 31, and the upper ends of these links have secured to them respective cables 37, preferably by readily detachable means, as the snap-hooks 38, as here shown. These cables 37 pass up through the respective bottom opening 27 of the top housing 20, over the respective upper sheaves 25 therein which upper OurnaIed at opposite sides of' ms openings 27 under these outer sides This collar 31 b .theh

tensions 19, and extend forwardly and rearwardly, each having at its forward and rear end a respective hanger 42, paired with and extending in toward the hanger 42 on the other yoke but spaced therefrom to allow ample clearance for the respective link 36 and cable 37 to swing and travel therebetween.

Each hanger 42 comprises a lower part 43 with its bottom 44 curving upward and inward toward the pole or mast, to a relatively short upwardly extending finger 45, and an upper longer finger 46 extending upward and inward over the shorter finger 45 with its outer side forming a continuous upward inward curve 47 with the outer side of the lower part 43, which meets the curved bottom 44 in an extreme lower and outer nose 48. The fingers 45 and 46 are spaced apart at their bases, leaving a crotch 49 between them; and the upper free ends of the fingers are suitably rounded and are substantially end, a pin 50, which preferably has journaled on it, at opposite sides of the respective link, rollers 51. apart for these pins and their rollers 51 to pass between thev yokes; but the hangers are so close together that their bottoms 44 will e engaged by the rollers 51 as the latter come up from of the fingers 46 will be engaged by these rollers 51 as these come down from above angers. I

Thus, the bottoms 44 will guide these rollers 51 up over the short fingers 45 and then the tension on the cables and links will swin these rollers out over the crotches 49. Then a slackening of the cables by the operator allows the swivel head and hub to drop, with these rollers 51 entering these crotches 49, so that the swivel parts are suspended on the hangers 42 by their links 36, without any strain on the cables 37.

By pulling down on the cables 37 at the bottom of the device, drawing the swivel parts up till the rollers 51 pass the upper below, and the outer sides The yokes 41 are far enough ends of the longer fingers 46, which have, during this movement, guided these rollers 51 inwardly, the tension will throw the rollers 51 out over the curved outer sides of these fingers 46, to travel down therealong and therefrom at the nose 48, permitting the swivel parts to be lowered.

For these raising and lowering operations, a portable cable 52 is secured to the ring 39, temporarily, as by the snap-hook 53. This cable 52 will pass up under the lower sheave 15 as the parts are lowered, and will come out therefrom and be detached when the parts have been raised and again caught in the hangers 12.

Each fiat-faced boss 35 is adapted to have secured to it, as by bolting or by the cap screws shown, a bracket 54, with a vertical opening through its outer end part 55, in which is a set screw 56 entering the opening. By this means, an upright staff 57 is clamped at any desired height on the swivel hub ()n the upper end of this staff 57 is the hinge-bracket 58 with an elongated channeled top. The spar 59 has one end fixed in a hinge-piece 60 that has its bottom elongated and coming between the side members of the channeled top of the hingebracket 58, with a pivot pin 61 through all, of these near the end where the spar extends out. Near the other end of these parts are a plurality of holes 62 in the bracket 58 and holes 63 in the piece 60, adapted to register variously as the spar is swung up and down on the hinge thus formed, and to have a fastening pin 64 passed through the alined holes, whereby the spar 59 may be held horizontal as shown by the solid lines, or more or less inclined downward, as shown by the dotted lines, in Figs. 2 and 3. Also, with the fastening pin 64 left out, the spar 59 may be swung down alongside the staff 57. for storage and shippingof the device. The staff 57 and spar 59 are preferably of metal tubing.

On the staff 57 and spar 59 are clips 65, to which the edges and corners of the flag, banner. sign or the like may be tied or otherwise suitably secured, as for instance the sign 66 of Fig. 1. or the flags 67 or pennants or streamers 68 of Fig. 2. There may be one or more such combinations of staffs and spars held on the swivel hub 33 as just described, at its several sides; as the one in Fig. 1, two in Fig. 2, or four in Fig. 3.

\Vhere two or four are carried, or other number evenly distributed around the hub 33. they will balance. But where only one, or an unevenly distributed plurality are carried. I prefer to provide the angle-bracket 69. Thus. as seen in Figs. 1, 7 and 8, this bracket 69 has an upright member bolted or screwed to the fiat face of the boss 35 opposite to the single staff and spar, and a horizontal member extending under the flangedisk 30, with a ball-bearing 70 up against the under side of the disk. This prevents tilting and binding of the swivel hub 33.

The collar 31 preferably has a skirt 71 over the swivel hub 33, all around, and the latter similarly has a skirt 72 over the disk 30 and the ball-bearings. Also, the hingepiece 60 is preferably provided with extensions 73 over the sides of the hinge-bracket 58. These skirts or extensions shed moisture away from the bearings which they cover, as does the top housing 20 from the upper sheaves 25 and their bearings, due to its shape as before described. This prevents disablement of the device by sleet or other ice accumulation.

In the modification of Fig. 6 the device differs merely in having the spar 59 hinged directly to the swivel hub 33 by a suitable hinge-bracket 74, which may be adjustable, similar to the before described hinge parts 58 and 60; and a weight-collar 75 slides freely up and down on the middle pole-section 2 with an eye 76 to which is suitably attached the lower inner corner of the flag 67 or streamer 68, as the case may be, either of which latter has its upper edge secured to the spar 59' in the manner before described. The weight-collar keeps the inner edge of the flag, streamer or the like stretched down, and yields up with it as the flag or the like is blown by the wind. When the flag or the like is lowered, it collapses as the weight-collar 75 first engages the lower housing 3 and the swivel parts then come down to the weight-collar.

It will be seen that when the spar of either example is held horizontal, it supports a quadrangular flag, banner, sign or the like; or when inclined more or less, it supports triangular signs, streamers, pennants or the like, of different proportions.

In any case, the flag, banner, streamer, pennant, sign or other article of textile or other or limp material, is prevented from wrapping around the staff, mast or pole, as is the disadvantage with such devices as they are usually hung. By having the swivel mounting, so that the one or more flags, signs or the like may revolve around the pole or mast under the action of the wind blowing in varying directions, the flag, sign or the like is blown out at all times under such conditions, as it would not be with a spar along its upper edge and merely stationary on the pole or mast.

By having the staff adjustable up and down on the swivel hub, it may be accommodated to different heights of flags, signs or the like, or may support the flag, sign or the like at different heights relative to the main supporting pole or mast. By having the spar adjustable to different inclinations. it accommodates flags, signs or the like of different shapes and proportions, or may be entirely folded down out of the way, as before alluded to.

By having these parts readily lowered and raised again by an operator close to the ground, their changing or renewal is made convenient; and by having them supported on the hangers, the cables are relieved of the constant strain they would otherwise be subjected to, as with the cables merely secured at the lower part of the pole or mast. Also, the greater parts of the cables are inclosed in the pole or mast, except when the device is lowered, and are thus protected from the weather. The exposed parts of the cables at the top are protected by the downward extensions of the top housing; and all bearings are protected, as before described. The flanged roller 11 receives the temporary cable 52 during the raising and lowering operations, when the lower housing 3 is somedistance above the ground, as it may be mounted if it is desired to raise its locked door out of the ready reach of persons who might tamper with it. The operator then carries a small ladder, on which he reaches the door, then stands on the ground, with the cable 52 running down as indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 4. He may use the ladder for reaching the spar for changing the flags, signs or thelike. Where the spar is directly on the swivel hub, as in Fig. 6, it comes farther down, and may be more easily reached.

With the cables connected to the links at their upper ends and to the ring 39 at their lower ends by the snap-hooks or other readily detachable connections, these cables are readily renewed; the new cable being pulled up through the top housing by means of the old one, ered, to the end of the old cable where it was connected to the link. For this purpose, the snap-hooks should be small enough to pass through the openings and around the upper sheaves, in the top housing;

The device may be used with advantage for advertising along country roads and along railroads and other such places, as well as in any situation where a flag or similar article requires more or less frequent raising and lowering or replacement or changing. It is amply protected against tampering or theft by having its lowering cables locked out of reach, and additionally so when the lock is high from the ground. If desired, for greater convenience of the operator or caretaker, however, the lower housing 3 may be placed within easy reach, and the lock may be depended upon to safeguard the device in the respects just noted.

Other modifications may occur in adapting the invention to various uses, or under different conditions, and therefore, while certain constructional details are deemed preferable in connection with my invention,

connected,owhile the device is low- 3 and I have shown and described these rather specifically in elucidating the construction and use of my invention, as is required, I do not wish to be understood as being limited to such tion, but

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the character described, a pole element, a swivel element rotatable around said pole element, upright means carried by said swivel element and adjustable up and down thereon, and laterally extended means carried by said upright means.

2. In a device of the character described, a pole element, an element slidable up and down on said pole element and guided by said poleelement, a cable supported on said pole element for hoisting and lowering said slidablev element, holding means for holding said slidable element in an elevated position on said pole element and relieving said cable precise showing and descripof strains exerted on said slidable element,

and a display element carried by said slidable element.

3. In a device of the character described, a pole element, an element slidable up and down on said pole element and guided by said pole element, a cable supported on said pole element for hoisting and lowering said slidable element, holding means operatively engageable or disengageable by virtue of tension of a cable, for holding said slidable element in an elevated position on said pole element and relieving the hoisting and lowering cable of strains exerted on said slidable element, and a display element carried by said slidable element.

4.. In a device of the character described, a pole element, an element slidable up and down on said pole element, means carried by said slidable element to extend a limp, flag-like object laterally from said pole element and maintain said object in' upright position, cable-supporting means on said pole element above said slidable element, a cable running over said cable-supporting means with parts extending down along said pole element, one of said parts being connected to said slidable element, a hanger on said pole element between said cable-supporting means and said slidable element, having an' upwardly opening crotch, engaging means connected to said one of said parts of said cable to swing therewith, and means for swinging said engaging means into and out of said crotch by virtue of the tension of said cable.

5. In a device of the character described, a pole element, a swivel element slidable up and down on and rotatable around said pole element, means carried by said swivel element to extend a limp, flag-like object laterally from said pole element and maintain means toward said door where they are accessible through said door, the other part of the respective cables being connected to said slidable element, and a temporary cable detachably connected to the first mentioned parts of said cables through said door.

13. In a device ofgthe character described, a pole element, an element slidable-up and down on said pole element to extend a limp, flag-like object laterally from said pole element and maintain said object in upright position, oppositely laterally extended cable,- supporting means on said pole element above said slidable element, cables running over the respective supporting means with parts extending down along said pole element, one of said parts of each cable being connected to saidslidable element, hangers on said pole element above said slidable element and under the respective cable supporting means, each having an upwardly opening crotch, engaging means connected to said parts of said cables that are connected to said slidable means, to swing with said parts, and means for swinging said engaging means into and out of respective ones of said crotches by virtue of the tension on the respective cables.

14. In a device of the character described, a pole element, a swivel head slidable up and downon said pole element with a lower radially extended bearing element, a hub sur- .rounding said head and having a readily rotatable mounting against said head and on said bearing element, whereby it is rotatable around said pole element, and means carried by said hub to extend a limp, flaglike object laterally from said pole element and maintain said object in upright position.

15. In a device of the character described, a pole element, a swivel head slidable up and down on said pole element with a lower radially extended bearing element, a hub surrounding said head and having a readily rotatable mounting against said head and on said bearing element, whereby it is rotatable around said pole element,'supporting means carried by said hub to extend a limp, flaglike object laterally from said pole element and maintain said object in upright posi tion, and an extension element on a side of said hub remote from said supporting means, extending under and having a readily rotatable mounting up against the under surface of said bearing element.

16. In a device of the character 'described, a pole element, cable supporting means on an upper part of said pole element, a cable running over said means with parts extending down along said pole element, an object connected to one of said parts to be hoisted and lowered,

a hanger on said pole element between said cable-supportingmeans and said object, having an upwardly opening connected to said crotch, engaging means one of said parts of said cable to swing therewith, and means for swinging said engaging means into and out of said crotch by virtue of the tension of said cable.

17. In a device of the character described, a tension element adapted to swing, and holding means comprising a short finger and a longer finger inclined to said short finger, with a crotch between said fingers, and a nosed part displaced at right angles to the general direction of said tension element .from said crotch, and displaced longitudinally from said crotch, on its side remote from said fingers, and engaging means connected to said tension element to swing therewith, said engaging means being guided by said nosed part along said shorter finger when approaching the nosed end of said holding means, into a position to swing opposite the open end of said crotch under the tension of said tension element, whereby said engaging means enters said crotch upon slackening of said tension means, and said engaging means being guided alon said longer finger, when drawn out 0 said crotch, into a position to swing to the opposite side of said longer finger when it passes the end thereof, to be guided by said opposite side back over said nosed part to a position for again being guided by said nosed part as aforesaid upon recurring approach thereto. 4

18. In a device of the character described, a holding means comprising a short finger and a longer finger inclined to said short finger, with a crotch between said fingers, and a nosed part disposed at right angles to the general direction of said fingers from said crotch, on its side remote from said fingers.

19. In a device of the character described, a housing having means at its opposite ends for connecting it to respective tubes, whereby it forms a coupling for said tubes, and having a door opening at one side, a door having a hinged pin near one end of said housing on which said door swings toward said end, and rotary means journaled on said hinge pin and exposed at the adjacent end of said .door opening when said door 1s swung open.

20. In a device of the character described, a tubular element, and a connecting element having internal threads near one end, into which said tubular element is screwed, said connecting element having additional internal threads in said end, of greater diameter than said tubular element, and a reinforcing bushing screwed into these additional Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,337,237.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 1,337,237, granted April 20, 1926, upon the application of Peter Light, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for an improvement in Hoisting and Displaying Devices, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 6, line 102, claim 18, for the word disposed read displaced; same page, line 110, claim 19, for the Word hinged read hinge; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to-the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice,

Signed and sealed this 25th day of May, A. D., 1920.

[sEALJ M. H. COULSTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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