US1841806A - Sign arrangement - Google Patents

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Jan. 19, 1932. A. HARRIS SIGN ARRANGEMENT Filed Aug. 9, 1928 Patented Jan. 19, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALEXANDER HARRIS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO ART METAL WORKS,

INC., A CORPORATION 015 NEW JERSEY SIGN ARRANGEMENT Application filed August 9, 1928. Serial No. 298,478.

This invention relates to sign arrangements and more particularly to the combination of a sign, either advertising or ornamental, or otherwise, and special means for attaching the same.

The main object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient sign of the lightreflecting variety adjustably mounted as on the radiator cap of an automobile so that it can be used to reflect received light forwardly for the purpose of exhibition, indication, advertisement, or ornamentation.

Further and more specific objects, features, and advantages will more clearly appear from the detailed description given below taken in connection with the accompanying drawings which form part of the specification, and which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, and in which,

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of the front of an automobile with the device mounted on the top of the radiator;

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical view taken through part of the sign and the radiator ca liig. 3 is a front elevation of the device in position on the cap; and,

Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the adjustable means for mounting the device on the cap.

The preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings comprises a sign casing or framework having angularly related top and bottom walls 10 and 11. At the rear of these walls the casing is closed but at the front it is open. The top wall has an opening 12 therein in which a plate or stencil 13 is held by means of clips 14. This stencil may have thereon any sign, symbol, or other matter which it is desired to exhibit by reflecting it forward from a reflector plate or surface 15 mounted on the lower wall 11 and held thereon by means of clips 16, and by sign I include any ornamental and other matter as well as advertising matters. The stencil plate 13 may be of glass or other material suitably constructed to receive and transmit the insignia to be reflected, while the reflector surface or plate 15 may also be a glass mirror or highly polished metal. The

light, preferably the sun light, will pass 7 through the stencil and strike the reflector plate 15. From this the image of the symbol to be exhibited will be thrown forward by rea-- son of the angle between the top and bottom 1 plates 10 and 11. The symbol will be visible because the stencil 13 hasits surface treated in such manner that the light passes to a diflerent degree through the symbol than through the rest of the plate.

In order to most prominently display the device in a position where the material to be exhibited will show up to advantage, I mount the casing on a supporting member,

preferably the top of the radiator cap 17 of an automobile. In order to be able to throw the reflected image in any desired direction and to;very readily adjust it in the desired position, I mount the device on the cap 17 by means of an adjustable bracket which comprises a lower U-shaped plate 18 with its legs extending upwardly. This plate 18 has its base fastened to the top of the cap 17 by means of a bolt 19 provided with a clamping and adjusting nut 20. By this construction,

the plate 18 can be turned around a vertical axis at will and adjusted in any desired position. i

The adjustable bracket further comprises an upper U-shaped plate 21 with its legs eX- tending downwardly and adapted to lie alongside the legs of the plate 18. These adjacent legs are provided with aligned holes through which passes a bolt 22. An adjusting and clamping nut 23 disposed on the end of the bolt 22 permits of the upper plate 21 being moved around a horizontal axis and adjusted in any desired position. The base of the U-shaped upper plate 21 is fastened to the under side of the bottom plate 11 of' the casing, preferably by means of rivets 2 1.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the device is prominently displayed on the automobile in such position that the material being exhibited will be readily seen by all passers-by as it approaches them. There is a further advantage derived by mounting it on the radiator cap, which, by being readily removable from the radiator, will permit of the devicebeing readily taken ofi for replacement, repair, or to change the stencils. Without taking it off the radiator, however, the adjustable supporting means permit the osition of the device to be quicky and easi y adjusted so that the exhibited material can be seen from almost any desired angle.

While I have described my improvement in detail and with respect to a preferred form thereof, I do notdesire to be limited to such details or form since many changes and modifications may be made and the invention embodied in other forms without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in its broader aspects. Hence I desire to cover all modifications and forms coming within the language or scope of any one or more of the a pended claims. What I claim as new and esire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination, an automobile radiator a bracket member, means for fastening said bracket member to said cap for movement around a vertical axis, a second bracket member, means for connecting said second bracket member to said first bracket member for movement around a horizontal axis, and a light reflecting sign mounted on said second bracket member.

2. In combination a supporting member, a bracket member fastened thereto, a second bracket member supported by the first bracket member and adjustable about a horimental axis with respect thereto, a framework mounted on the second bracket, means carried by the framework to receive sunlight and to transmit thereby an image, and means carried by the framework to receive lllGh light and image and reflect it from the framework.

.In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ALEXANDER HARRIS.

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