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US3566525A
US3566525A US876213A US3566525DA US3566525A US 3566525 A US3566525 A US 3566525A US 876213 A US876213 A US 876213A US 3566525D A US3566525D A US 3566525DA US 3566525 A US3566525 A US 3566525A
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    • G09F13/00—Illuminated signs; Luminous advertising
    • G09F13/04—Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia
    • G09F13/0404—Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia the light source being enclosed in a box forming the character of the sign
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  • a sign preferably for advertising purposes, having an opaque box-shaped hollow body, a source of light mounted therein, and at least on one face to be viewed transparent portions to be penetrated by light from the source of light in the form of projections, beads or ribs arranged so as to make the contours or boundaries of the advertised object stand out from the surrounding sign surface and shine in the dark.
  • the most customary type of advertising signs is the neon sign.
  • the predecessor of the neon sign is the sign outlined in the foregoing, and in recent years this type of signs has made a successful come-back due to the progress made in the synthetic plastics industry and has now begun to supersede the neon signs by reason of its considerably lower price.
  • the irst-mentioned signs still are inferior to the neon signs in several respects.
  • one of the great advantages of the neon sign resides in that it is easy to read also at a distance due to the high contrasts and sharp contours produced in the sign by the luminescent, relatively slender tubes.
  • the primary object of the present invention is to provide a sign that displays the advantages of the neon sign with regard t the possibility of reading the sign both at a distance and from a lateral direction and that, as distinct from the neon sign, is inexpensive and simple and also designed in such a way as to permit any one to exchange burnt-out lamps and effect other minor work on the sign.
  • the sign suggested by the present invention is characterised in that the box or body which preferably is in the shape of a letter and comprises two mating trough-shaped portions, on the face to be viewed has transparent portions in the form of projections, such as beads or ribs, extending from the box surface and having a width smaller than that of the said face, and counted from the said face a height approximately equal to the width of the projections.
  • the box or body which preferably is in the shape of a letter and comprises two mating trough-shaped portions, on the face to be viewed has transparent portions in the form of projections, such as beads or ribs, extending from the box surface and having a width smaller than that of the said face, and counted from the said face a height approximately equal to the width of the projections.
  • FIG. 1 is a section of part of a letter sign
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the entire sign
  • FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view illustrating two sections of the sign.
  • the letter sign illustrated in the drawing comprises a front portion 1 and a rear portion 2.
  • the rear portion is of opaque synthetic plastics and houses a holder 3 for fluorescent tubes 4. It has a bottom 5 and side walls 6 which are directed obliquely outwardly from the bottom 5.
  • the front portion 1 has identical side walls 7 the rearwardly facing edges 8 of which correspond to the forwardly facing edges 9 of the rear portion 2. Like the rear portion 2, the side Walls 7 are made entirely from an opaque synthetic plastics. 'The front face 10 of the front portion 1, which is to be viewed and is glued to the side walls, has its edges provided with outwardly extending bead-shaped or channel-shaped portions or ribs 11 of transparent, preferably colored material. The portions 12 between the said beads or channels may be of non-transparent material, but in the embodiment illustrated the entire front face 10 is of transparent material, the areas 12 intermediate the ribs 11, however, having been made opaque by means of, for instance, metal foil 13 applied to the inner sides of the said areas 12.
  • the front portion 1 and the rear portion 2 of the sign are connected together with the aid of strips 14 of channel section which are engaged over projecting anges 15 and 16, respectively, at the abutting edges 8 and 9, respectively, of the sign side walls.
  • the strip 14 of channel section is attached alternately to the flanges of the one and the other portion.
  • strip segments are thus attached to the ilange 15, while the ange is devoid of strip segments at the remaining side walls.
  • the ilange 16 of the rear portion 2 which flange corresponds to the strip carrying iiange parts of the front portion 1, is devoid of strip segments, while the flange 16 of the rear portion 2 has associated to it a strip of channel section opposite those ilange parts of the front portion 1 which are devoid of strip segments.
  • the flange parts of the two sign portions 1 and 2 that are respectively provided with strip segments and devoid of strip segments, are so located in relation to each other that the sign portions 1 and 2 can be fitted together, the ilange parts devoid of strip segments being received, like in grooves, between the inner side of the strip 14 of channel section and the outer side of the flange carrying it.
  • the rear portion 2 see the lower half of FIG.
  • strips are attached to the ange parts extend-V ing along the downwardly facing lateral or transversely extending surfaces 17 of the sign and those surfaces 18 thereof which are vertical or face inwardly and downwardly, while strips are attached to the flange 15 of the detachable front portion 1 (see the upper half of FIG. 3) at the upwardly facing or transversely extending sides 19 and the outwardly and upwardly facing sides 20 of the sign which converge towards each other.
  • the sign described above and illustrated in the drawing is useful not only as a one-sided sign. It can also be made double-sided, readable from two directions, the opaque bottom of the rear portion 2 being replaced by a further face which is provided with transparent ribs.
  • a sign comprising in combination: hollow front and rear sections having corresponding peripheral outwardly extending flanges adapted to be interengaged when the sections are assembled together, releasable connecting means for securing said flanges together to hold said sections assembled, said front section including a face comprised of a central opaque portion and a peripheral transparent portion surrounding said opaque portion and projecting outwardly from said opaque portion, a source of light mounted in one of the sections for transmitting light solely through said transparent portion whereby said transparent portions simulates a tube of a neon sign or sections havingr corresponding peripheral outwardly ex- 45 4 tending flanges adapted to be interengaged when the sections are assembled together, releasable connecting means for securing said flanges together to hold said sections assembled, said releasable connecting means including a plurality of channel strips respectively secured to portions of the flanges of each section with other portions of each of the anges being free of such channel strips and with the channel strips of onel section being positioned for registry and
  • said flanges include first and second straight portions converging towards each other and extending along opposite sides of the sign, and third and fourth portions extending transversely between said first and second flange portions, and wherein the channel strips of one section are secured to said first, second and third ange portions thereof while the fourth ange portion thereof is free of channel strips, and the channel strip of the other section are secured to said fourth portion thereof with the first, second and third portions thereof being free of channel strips.
  • fianges include fifth and sixth generally straight converging portions spaced inwardly from said first and second portions, and wherein said fifth and sixth iiange portions of said first sign section are free of channel sections and wherein said fifth and sixth fiange portions of the other sign section have channel strips secured thereto.
  • a sign defined in claim 5 having a generally A-shape.

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US4201004A (en) * 1976-06-28 1980-05-06 Colite Industries, Inc. Apparatus forming three dimensional sign display character
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US4202123A (en) * 1976-06-28 1980-05-13 Colite Industries, Inc. Apparatus forming three dimensional sign display character
US4714581A (en) * 1976-06-28 1987-12-22 Colite Industries, Inc. Method forming three dimensional sign display character
US4891896A (en) * 1988-08-15 1990-01-09 Gulf Development Corporation Simulated neon sign
US5146704A (en) * 1991-04-01 1992-09-15 Dugan Billy G Illuminated sign
US5345705A (en) * 1992-05-20 1994-09-13 Lawrence Gary L Lightweight, three-dimensional sign
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US6594931B1 (en) * 1999-08-19 2003-07-22 Jeffrey C. Barton Fluorescent illuminated sign assembly
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US4122616A (en) * 1976-06-28 1978-10-31 Colite Industries, Inc. Method and apparatus forming three dimensional sign display character
US4201004A (en) * 1976-06-28 1980-05-06 Colite Industries, Inc. Apparatus forming three dimensional sign display character
US4201003A (en) * 1976-06-28 1980-05-06 Colite Industries, Inc. Apparatus forming three dimensional sign display character
US4202123A (en) * 1976-06-28 1980-05-13 Colite Industries, Inc. Apparatus forming three dimensional sign display character
US4714581A (en) * 1976-06-28 1987-12-22 Colite Industries, Inc. Method forming three dimensional sign display character
US4140405A (en) * 1977-04-07 1979-02-20 Anchor Plastics Company Inc. Sign letter structure
US4891896A (en) * 1988-08-15 1990-01-09 Gulf Development Corporation Simulated neon sign
US5146704A (en) * 1991-04-01 1992-09-15 Dugan Billy G Illuminated sign
US5345705A (en) * 1992-05-20 1994-09-13 Lawrence Gary L Lightweight, three-dimensional sign
US5921012A (en) * 1995-10-11 1999-07-13 Caivano; Fernando A. Illuminated display device and mold useful for the formation of same
US6594931B1 (en) * 1999-08-19 2003-07-22 Jeffrey C. Barton Fluorescent illuminated sign assembly
US20070113441A1 (en) * 2003-12-09 2007-05-24 Slowski Darrel R LED illuminated house number and sign characters
US7685753B2 (en) * 2003-12-09 2010-03-30 Slowski Darrel R LED illuminated house number and sign characters
WO2012089087A1 (zh) * 2010-12-31 2012-07-05 吴江宇星金属工艺装潢有限公司 一种三维立体字及使用该三维立体字的灯具
WO2013013596A1 (zh) * 2011-07-22 2013-01-31 吴江宇星金属工艺装潢有限公司 三维标识牌及其制作方法
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