US1448299A - Fixture for advertising signs - Google Patents

Description

Mar. 13, 1923.

T. P. HOLLIDAY FIXTURE FOR ADVERTISING SIGNS Filed Dec. 10, 1921 Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

THOMAS P. HOLLIDAY, or SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

FIXTURE ron ADVERTISING SIGNS.

Application filed December 10,1921. Serial No. 521,523.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs P. HOLLIDAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Savannah, in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Fixtures for Advertising Signs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in methods of displaying advertising signs, flags, banners, posters, bill boards and bulletin boards by the use of new and economical fixtures which provide for the display of two different advertisements on the one fixture, making what might be called two-face signs.

They have the distinct advantages of partially and completely revolving and moving back and forth freely thereby attracting attention and thereby reducing the exposure of the sign to the rain, and also reducing the wear and tear from the action of the wind on outdoor signs.

I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of the entire fixture; Figure 2 an adaptation, and Figure 3 is another adaptation for use in displaying advertising signs, etc., by means of artificial currents of air. Figure 4 shows a preferred method of assembling the parts.

In Figure 1, A represents the wire frame which is made of one piece of wire into this ingenious shape so that it supports the ad vertising sign, and by means of the loops or rings E and IE" it revolves freely around the sup-porting pole or post B, in

accordance with the way the wind blows, and this moving of the sign attracts attention and thereby increases the value of the ad vertisement. D represents the advertising sign which may be made of various ma terials, such as cloth, paper, card-board, weather-proof paraflined fibre, tin, etc. I The sign is made double so that it has two faces two advertisements, and the wire frame A fits in between them so that the supporting wire frame is hidden from view.

In Figure 2, C shows an extension of the wire frame beyondthe point of the brace at the top, and the brace at the lower end is attached to the wire frame at E, about midway between E and E. In this adaptation the wire frame A is also made of one piece of wire.

Figure 3 shows an adaptation of the twoface revolving sign for indoor display, using artificial currents of air to make it revolve. A shows the wire frame which is made of one piece of wire with rings at top, and bottom so that it revolves freely around the post B, which has a screw hook at the top to attach to the electric fan F, and at the bottom a screw eye to which aweight is attached, for the purpose of holding the sign steady, as it revolves. and the wire frame and post fit in between, so that they are almost, and sometimes, entirely hidden from view. In this adaptation Figure 4 shows another method of attaching the wire frame to the post by means of the screw hook eye at the bottom.

This isan improved and preferred design in which the rings E and E are reduced in size to fit the screw hook and screw eye as shown in Figure 4, thereby simplifying the assembling of the parts and also reducing the friction so that the easier.

In the use of cloth and other similar signs, the material may be cut approximately double the size of the finished sign, and the desired advertising matter be printed, lithographed or painted on one side thereof. It may then be folded in the middle and sewed at the top edge, leaving a hole, as at the upper left hand corner of Fig. 1 for the loop of the frame A to slip through. When displaying paper posters composed of two at the top and the screw The sign is double sign will revolve separate sheets on these fixtures, the said 7 sheets may be secured together by the well have been made and patented which involve '7 the principle of revolving like the weathervane. i I therefore do not claim such a combination broadly; butI claim:

1. A device of the class described comj prising a single wire bent to provide a sub stantially horizontal member, a plurality of intersecting members dependlng therefrom, a pivoting loop in said horizontal member, and a similar loop adjacent the ends of said intersecting members.

2. A device of the class described comprising a single wire bent to provide a substantially horizontal member, a plurality of inclined members intersecting substantially beneath, the mid point of said horizontal a pair of intersecting members depending: 10 member a pivoting loop at substantially therefrom, and pivoting loops, adapted to said mid point, and a second pivoting loop engage said support, in said horizontal mematthe intersection of said inclined members her and adjacent the intersecting point of 3. The combination with a sgipport, o; a said depending members.

air of character bearin sur aces" an a T Substantially triangular fiame between said TIIOMAS HOLLIDAY' surfaces, composed of a single Wire bent to \Vitness: provide a substantially horizontal member, M. W. BARRY.

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