US1455103A - Interchangeable and adjustable sign - Google Patents

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c. TQBERRY INTERCHANGEABLE AND ADJUSTABLE SIGN 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 21 1922 wk ATTORNEY May 15, 1923.

C. T. BERRY INTERCHANGEABLE AND ADJUSTABLE SIGN 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 21 1922 /Qm 7% @%W C/ V.

Patented May 15, 1923.

hdeedtld CULLYE T. BERRY, F NEAR DAYTON, OHIO.

INTERCHANGEABLE AND ADJUSTABLE SIGN.

Application filed m 21,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CULLYE T. Benny, a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Montgomery, near the city of Dayton, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in interchangeableand Adjustable Signs, of which the following is a specification.

One ofthe principal objects of my invention is to provide an interchangeable and adjustable sign that may be cheaply constructed and economically maintained. The inventioncontemplates the provision of triangular posts that have'slotted faces to adjustably receive one or more signs for display in positions which are parallelto, or at an angle with, a road or street. For example, one sign-may be secured between two posts for observation by persons when passing it, while other signs may be mounted at an angle on the same posts for view by those persons when approaching them.

The triangular postsmay remain'permanently on a knoll or other place at the side of a road or street to receive different signs from time to time, thus making it unnecessaryto erect a new sign each time it is desired to change it. This interchangeablefeature of my invention reduces advertising costs, and makes for convenience in the erection of a sign. It is another object of my invention to provide an ornamental head piece for the sign which will not only flood light it when desired, but will shed water from it.

Other important and incidental objects will be brought out in the following specification, and particularly set forth in the subjoined claims- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevational view of my interchangeable and adjustable sign. Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the triangular posts. Figure 3 is a cross sectional V ew taken through one of said posts on the line 7 38 of Figure 2, showing how one of the sign supporting brackets secures a sign to a face portion of said post. Figure 4 1s a top plan view of a form of bracket to the side portion of which a sign is secured, the side of the post which receives said bracket being shown in section. Figure 5 is a top plan View of one of the triangular posts, showing how a sign is secured thereto in a posi-- tion parallel to a face of the post. Figure 6 1922. Serial No. 576,410.

is a top plan view of one of the triangular posts, show ng a sign secured to each face thereof and at a right angle to its respective face. Figure 7 is a top plan view of two triangular posts between which a sign visible from the side of a road is supported, and to each of which there is secured a smaller sign that projects outwardly at an angle to the first sign. Figure Sis a front view of the water-shedding and illuminating shield secured to the upper part of the sign. And Figure 9 is a side view thereof.

Throughout the specification and drawings, similar reference characters 1 denote corresponding parts.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 designates a signsupporting post which is triangular in cross section as shown in Figure 3. The post 1, which may be used individually or with another similar post to support one or more signs as shown in Figure 1, has formed in each face a series of vertically-disposed keyhole slots 2. Readily insertable in the round portion of each slot 2 is the disc-shaped head 4 on the reduced neck portion 5 of a bracket member (3 which, in Figure 3, is turned at right angles to said neck portion for attachment by means of screws 7 to the end of a rectangular sign board 8. The neck portion of the bracket member is adapted to descend readily to the bottom of the slot to form, with the head 4: which bears againstthe inside of the face of the post, a firm support for the sign. (See Figure 3.) This bracket member may thus be secured to each side of a triangular post 1, so that by the use of these bracket members three signs 8 may be firmly secured to that post for View from widely different positions. (See Figure 6.)

Instead of securing the above bracket members 6 to the end of a sign, they may be secured to the middle part of the rear side of a sign to hold it flush with one face of a post 1 as shown in Figure 5.

When it is desired to support a sign between two posts 1, l, the form of bracket shown in Figure 41 is preferred. This bracket member, which will be designated by the numeral 9, has a neck portion 10 which is in the same plane, and a head 11 which is inclined to it so as to be flush with the inside surface of the face of the post. By means of screws 12 the brackets 9 may be secured to the rear side of a sign 13 to suspend it between two posts 1, 1. (See Figures 1, 4 and 7.) InFig-tires 1 and 7 the sides o'f' theposts which receive the sign-supporting brac'k'ets9 are at an angle to permit the sign 13-to face a road, and at the same- ;time to permit the mounting of two signs 8, 8 on the adjacent sides of those posts for view by persons approaching the entire sign along that road. It is thus possible to economize space by displaying one large sign and two small ones from two of my triangular posts as shown in Figures 1 and 7, and three small signs from one of those posts as shown in Figured- When itis desired to change a sign, the brackets supporting it may be readily withdrawn from the keyhole slots in the poster" posts whiclr supported it and easily attached to a new signfor erectionon the same post or posts. Each post contains nuniber of thesekeyliole slotsso thatit is'easy to adj net the vertical position of-a sign by inserting theheads'of the supporting brackets in those slots which are atthedesiredheiglitQ Secured'to the top of the sign 13 by screws 14, is the right-angled base portion of an overhanging shield 15 preferably constructed of metal; (See Figures 8 and 9.) This shield will not only shedwater from the sign, but is adapted to reflect light "upon it fromincandescentlamps 16, oneof which is shown in'Figure 9 as projecting forwardly from a socket member 17 mounted upon the bottom of the shield. V

I donot wish to'be limited to the details of a construction and arrangement herein shown and described, and any changes'or modificationsmay be made therein within the scope of said post, and a sign supported by each bracl'iet" device. j

'2 In a device of the" type described, the

combination with a pair of posts triangular in cross section, of brackets attachable to each face of'the posts, a sign supported by the angular in cross section and having'keyhole slots in each face thereof, of brackets having proj ections adapted to enter said slots, a sign removably supported by? the brackets which enter slots in two opposite sideszo-f thephsts,

and a sign supported by the' brackets which enter slots in the face of each postyadjacent tothe face receiving the first-sign-supporting brackets.

4. In a device of the ty-pedeseribed, the

combination with a pair of hollow posts tri angular in cross section and positidnedto' have their opposite facesat'anangle to each: other, each face of said posts beingprovided" with a series of keyhole slots, brackets having projections adapted toenter said slots, a=

flanged head on eaclr projectioniturned at-an angle to the latter to bear'fiush with the in 7 side surface of the faceof' the postcontain-' ing theslot which it entered, asign 'supp'o'i'ted between the posts by said inclinedaliead" brackets, and a sign supported bythe brack-. ets which enter slots in the face of each post, adjacent to the face receiving thefirst sign supporting brackets.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set i my hand this 18th day of July, 1922. I

CULLY-E IBERRY.

Vitness: v

HOWARD S. SMITH.

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