US3456771A - Apparatus for displaying information,particularly for exhibiting advertisements - Google Patents

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US3456771A
US3456771A US618357A US3456771DA US3456771A US 3456771 A US3456771 A US 3456771A US 618357 A US618357 A US 618357A US 3456771D A US3456771D A US 3456771DA US 3456771 A US3456771 A US 3456771A
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    • G09F15/00—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like
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    • G09F19/04—Advertising or display means not otherwise provided for incorporating moving display members operated by the opening or closing of doors, e.g. shop door

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  • the present invention has reference to an improved apparatus for displaying information of the most varied type and form, particularly for exhibiting advertisements or the like, wherein the apparatus is coin-controlled and provided with a plurality of display compartments each adapted to receive an adveitisement.
  • advertisement as employed herein is used in its broadest sense, and therefore, is intended to encompass almost all types of subject matter and information, whether in worded or pictorial form, and generally can be considered broadly as any type of information which the exhibitor wishes to communicate to persons viewing the apparatus.
  • An apparatus which has a number of display compartments into which there can be inserted advertisements which are to be exhibited.
  • two movable holding elements for the advertisements are nitecl States Patent arranged in each display compartment and can be alternately pivoted into the viewing zone of the compartment by a common drive through the agency of a mechanical gear unit. Consequently, one of the two advertisements placed in a compartment always remains hidden from the viewers.
  • none of the known proposals provides a solution for the requirement that each user be guaranteed that his advertisement will remain in the apparatus during a predetermined, minimum period of time and will not be prematurely replaced by the advertisement of another user.
  • Another object of this invention concerns an improved apparatus for displaying advertisements which provides a desired supplementation to the other advertising possibilities, such as newspaper advertisements or the like, and which also can be employed in public places in the Open, at railroad stations and so forth, and therefore, is acces sible for a larger circle of persons.
  • Still a further significant object of the present invention relates to an improved apparatus for exhibiting advertisements or the like which insures that the exhibitor will have his advertisement unquestionably exhibited for a predetermined minimum period of time and guarantees against unauthorized removal of such advertisement until such prescribed time has expired.
  • Yet a further noteworthy object of the present invention relates to an improved apparatus for displaying advertisements in most any form and wherein the apparatus is extremely simple to use, completely reliable in operation, prevents tampering with advertisements which have been placed in the apparatus, and makes absolutely certain that any advertisement which has been placed in the apparatus will remain displayed for a predetermined minimum period of time.
  • the inventive apparatus for the display of information, particularly worded or pictorial advertisements and which is coin operated advantageously comprises a plurality of display compartments each adapted to receive an advertisement.
  • the inventive apparatus is provided with controllable individual locking means for the purpose of opening the display compartments, and further, each display compartment is provided with individual time-controlled switch means which begin to run upon the new occupancy of the asso ciated display compartment.
  • the control means for unlocking or releasing the locking means is dependent upon the expiration of a predetermined minimum period of time of occupancy of the associated display compartment and further upon the insertion of a coin at a coin collecting device.
  • FIGURE 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a single display compartment and depicting the associated locking means
  • FIGURE 3 is an electric circuit diagram for the electric control of the apparatus of FIGURES 1 and 2.
  • FIGURE 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Describing now the drawings, and, in particular, turning attention to FIGURE 1 it will be recognized that the exemplary illustrated embodiment of display apparatus incorporates a casing or carrier frame having an area equipped with a plurality of schematically depicted viewing or display compartments 12. These display compartments 12 serve to receive information which is to be displayed, such as worded or pictorial advertisements 14, as has been illustrated for a number of these display compartments. Further, it will be recognized that the display compartments 12 are secured in a uniform or regular arrangement at the carrier frame 10 and can be individually opened and closed for the purpose of exchanging the advertisements.
  • opening of the display compartments 12 cannot be performed at random by the users, rather to do so two conditions must be fulfilled: In order that a certain display compartment 12 can be newly occupied a predetermined minimum period of time since its last occupancy must have expired, and it is further necessary to insert a required coin at an insert slot 22 provided at the casing or frame 10.
  • a display compartment whose minimum time, as explained above, has expired will be automatically opened after insertion of the coin.
  • the instructions which are arranged at the casing or frame 10 there are also arranged thereat two signal or indicating lamps 24 and 26. Now, either the lamp 24 is illuminated, which indicates to the user that all of the display compartments 12 are occupied, or the lamp 26 is illuminated, which indicates that for at least one of the display compartments 12 the aforementioned minimum time has expired.
  • These lamps 24 and 26 are preferably provided with an appropriate illuminated writing such as Compartments occupied and Compartment free, respective1y.
  • the frame 10 together with the front of the display compartments 12 forms the cover of a non-illustrated housing in which there is accommodated the control mechanism, the electric supply component, the coin collecting box and so forth.
  • the apparatus can be erected in a building or in the open, lowered into the corner of a brickwork, or erected at a wall, or also standing freely upon a pedestal or the like.
  • a lock 16 and the hinges 18 it is possible to open and pivot the frame unit 10 which together with the aforementioned front of the display compartments forms the cover, and this for the purpose of servicing the apparatus.
  • FIGURE 2 depicts a vertical sectional view through a single display or viewing compartment 12.
  • the latter is formed by a housing 30 of relatively shallow depth which serves to receive the advertisement 14.
  • This housing 30 is closed at the front by a frame 32 carrying an inserted glass plate 34.
  • the frame 32 is pivotably mounted at the housing 30 at its lower edge by means of a shaft 36.
  • a lock which, as shown, in the locked condition of the frame 32 piercingly extends towards the rear through an opening 30a provided at the floor of the housing 30 and is operably connected with a pawl 42 or equivalent expedient.
  • This pawl 42 forms the armature of a release magnet A which is secured to the rear wall of the housing 30.
  • Pawl 42 is hingedly connected at location 44 and I constructed as a hinged armature which actuates the work contact a when the magnet A is excited or energized.
  • the locking element 40 is released, and consequently, also the frame 32.
  • the latter tilts into the phantom line open position, as shown in FIGURE 2, under the action of a spring 38 or the like.
  • the previously inserted advertisement 14 can be removed and replaced by a new advertisement.
  • the frame 32 is manually closed the locking element 40 slides over the pawl 42 which is then pushed downwardly and, with a non-excited state 'of the magnet A, momentarily actuates the contact a, as will be more fully developed hereinafter.
  • All of the display compartments 12 are similarly constructed and equipped with the previously considered individual locking elements or means.
  • the display compartments 12 fill the surface or area of the frame 10 and can be secured to a rearward mounting grid or plate 46 as exchangeable units.
  • FIGURE 3 here there is shown the electric circuit diagram for the electric control of the apparatus according to FIGURES 1 and 2.
  • one hundred display compartments 12 are provided and that the minimum period of occupancy for the individual compartments amounts to seven days.
  • the number of compartments and the minimum time of occupancy can be differently selected, depending upon requirements.
  • FIGURE 3 only depicts the circuitry for the display compartments 1, 2, 3 and 100. Additionally, different central switching components are provided which are common to all display compartments 12, as such has been shown in the area Z of FIGURE 3.
  • a relay B having two work contacts b1 and b2 and a rest contact b3, as well as a step-by-step switch means C.
  • This stepping or step-by-step switch means C possesses a contact arm 0 for the nine steps or increments per revolution.
  • the central switching arrangement Z embodies a onehundred positional step-by-step switch means D having a switching arm d, a one-hundred positional manual selector switch means J, a push button K, the coin insert or collector device F with the coin contact 1, an auxiliary relay E provided with a work contact e1 and a makeand-break contact e2, both of the signal or indicating lamps 24 and 26 previously discussed with regard to FIGURE 1, as well as a timing pulse generator G with the impulse contact g.
  • the contacts b1 of all relays are electrically coupled one after the other, i.e. in succession, with the associated contact lamella or blade at the step-by-step switch means D.
  • windings of all of the release magnets A are connected to the relevant contact lamellae or blades of the manual selection switch means J.
  • These electrical connections have been shown for the second display compartment 12 which in FIGURE 3 bears the legend 2, and to preserve clarity in the circuit diagram such connections have only been schematically indicated for the remaining depicted display compartments.
  • the contacts b2 of all relays B are coupled by the conductor 54a with one another and via the further conductor 54 with the winding or coil of the relay E.
  • the conductor 52 which leads away from the timing pulse contact g of the timing pulse generator G is connected via a cross-conductor or connection 52a to all contacts b3, as shown.
  • FIGURE 3 depicts the apparatus in the rest condition in which the minimum period of occupancy has not expired for any of the display compartments 12.
  • all of the relays and magnets are without current, and the indicating lamp 24 is supplied with current via the contact e2 which is in the rest position, so that this indicating lamp 24 will indicate that no display compartment 12 is available for the reception of a new advertisement.
  • a blocking element 50 which is under the action of the relay E serves to block the coin insert slot 22, so that there is positively prevented the mistaken insertion of a coin into the apparatus during such time as all of the display compartments 12 thereof are completely occupied.
  • the contact g is periodically actuated once each day, preferably in each instance at 12 noon. These timing pulses arrive via the conductors 52, 52a at all of the display compartments 12, and then from this location arrive at the magnetic switch means C through the agency of the associated contact b3. As a result, the switching amis c of all of the time-controlled magnetic stepping switch means C are moved or indexed one step or increment. Upon completion of one revolution of the switching arm c the relevant or associated relay B is energized. With the situation basically depicted by the circuit diagram of FIGURE 3 such is the case for the second display compartment 12, hearing reference numeral 2 in the upper left hand corner, when the next timing pulse is delivered, whereby its minimum period of occupancy has expired.
  • the relay E By actuating the contacts of the relevant relay B the further conducting of timing impulses to the associated magnetic switching means C is interrupted by means of the rest contact b3, and by means of the working contact b2 thereof and the conductor 54 the relay E is energized.
  • the make-and-break contact e2 extinguishes the signal lamp 24 and ignites the signal lamp 26, so that at the outside of the apparatus it is indicated that at least one display compartment 12 of the one-hundred provided compartments is available for a new occupancy or insertion of a new advertisement.
  • the relay E actuates the blocking member 50, whereby the coin insert slot 22 is freed.
  • the coin contact 1 will be momentarily or periodically actuated. Consequently, the magnetic step-by-step switch means D receives an impulse from contact e1 via the contact 1 and indexes the switching arm a! one further step.
  • the release magnet A is energized through the agency of the switching arm d and the contact b1. This release magnet A attracts the pawl 42 which, in turn, releases the locking element 40 so that this display compartment opens.
  • the contact a is also actuated, whereby the stepping switch means C is energized so as to index the switching arm 0 through one further step.
  • the stepping switch means C now once again receives the impulses from the impulse contact g via the associated contact b3. Only after the switching arm 0 has received seven daily impulses, that is, after the minimum period of occupancy for the second display compartment has expired, does the switching arm 0 again arrive at the ninth position where it energizes the associated relay B.
  • the manual selection switch means I and the push button K are only accessible for a maintenance personnel when the apparatus is opened. This arrangement enables the maintenance personnel, when a situation requires, to open any given display compartment by appropriately setting the manual selection switch means I and then actuating the push button K. Further, it should be appreciated that it is also possible to have any number of individual display compartments reserved for continuous use, in which event the automatic control of such display compartment or compartments is interrupted.
  • Apparatus for displaying information, particularly for exhibiting advertisements in worded or pictorial form comprising:
  • coin collector means operably associated with said display compartments
  • controllable individual locking means provided for locking each display compartment and capable f being actuated in order to open the associated display compartment
  • said electric circuit means including individual timing switch means for each display compartment, means to actuate said timing switch means upon each locking of the associated display compartment, and control means for actuating each of said locking means, operation of said control means being dependent upon the expiration of'a predetermined minimum period of time of occupancy of said display compartments as determined by said timing switch means and upon the insertion of a coin at said cOin collector means.
  • each of said individual timing switch means is defined by a stepping switch, said electric circuit means further including a central timing pulse generator for delivering timing pulses to said individual timing switch means.
  • Apparatus for displaying information particularly for exhibiting advertisements in worded or pictorial form as defined in claim 4, further including means for interrupting the delivery of timing pulses to each respective stepping switch of each associated display compartment as soon as said minimum predetermined period of'time of occupancy of the associated display compartment has expired.
  • Apparatus for displaying information particularly for exhibiting advertisements in worded or pictorial form as defined in claim .1, wherein said display compartments with associated locking means are constructed as exchangeable units.

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