US576662A - Metal sign-board - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

P. V. BAVENSON.

D R A 0 B N G I S L A T E M No. 576,662. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS V. EAVENSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METAL SIGN-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,662, dated February 9, 1897.

Application filed October 29, 1895. Serial No. 567,282. (No model.)

To to whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, FRANCIS V. EAVEN- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Sign- Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in metal sign-boards; and the object of my invention is to furnish an inexpensive metal sign-board particularly adapted to be secured to and to project outward from Vertical cylindrical iron posts or rods, an awning-post, for example.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which simi lar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout both views, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a sign-board embodying my improvements, and Fig. 2 a plan of blank from which the board shown in Fig. 1 is formed.

A is my sign-board, which is formed from a blank. (Shown in Fig. 2.) The blank being cut substantially to the form shown, its upper face has painted, printed, or otherwise suitably marked upon it the design or words desired. The blank, if of very thin metal, which I prefer for the sake of economy, is now struck up or embossed in dies, so as to form ridges a,

holes 0 in the board and around the post.

When in place, the board projects out substantially at right angles to the axis of the pole.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A metal sign-board formed from a single piece of metal folded over upon itself as shown and one of the sides of the upper and lower ends of which are furnished with ears I) adapted to be bent over upon the opposite side and the ends of which, opposite the end formed by the fold of the metal, are bent one to one side, the other to the other side, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

FRANCIS V. EAVENSON.

Witnesses CHRISTOPHER FALLON, CHAS. A. RUTTER.

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