Beverage delivery truck with signage device for selectively displayed messages

• US 20060248763A1
• Filed: 05/09/2005
• Published: 11/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Admobile Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Admobile Incorporated
• Inventors: Tarabella, Robert M.
• Application Number:
  US11/125,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20060248763A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/590
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2011/0081 Roller-band displays used on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/048 Advertisement panels on sides, front or back of vehicles

Abstract

A beverage delivery vehicle with a plurality of lateral side-accessible bays for transport of beverages and having a back wall to which a signage device attaches and having a plurality of discrete signage messages for selective display during travel of the beverage delivery truck. A method of display of signage messages during travel of a beverage delivery vehicle is disclosed.

Claims

1. A beverage delivery vehicle with a plurality of lateral side-accessible bays for transport of beverages and having a back wall, the improvement comprising a signage device attached to the back wall and having a plurality of discrete signage messages for selective display.

2. The beverage delivery vehicle as recited in claim 1, wherein the signage device houses a plurality of rotatable signage assemblies each having a plurality of sign panels, with each sign panel defining a portion of a one of the plurality of signage messages, and means for displaying simultaneously the sign panels associated with the same one of the plurality of signage messages.

3. The beverage delivery vehicle as recited in claim 1, wherein the signage device is an electronic image display screen and further comprising an electronic controller having a memory for holding electronic signals representative of the plurality of signage messages and operative for selective display of the signage messages on the display screen.

4. The beverage delivery vehicle as recited in claim 1, wherein the signage device includes a pair of opposing rollers that receive a panel bearing images for display, at least one of the rollers selectively operative by a driver device to advance the panel for display of the images carried on the panel.

5. The beverage delivery vehicle as recited in claim 4, wherein the panel is an endless belt.

6. A method of providing a display of an advertising message for a plurality of advertisers, comprising the steps of:

(a) attaching a signage device to a back wall of a beverage delivery vehicle having a plurality of lateral side-accessible bays for transport of beverages;

(b) providing a plurality of discrete signage messages for selective display by the signage device;

(c) operating the signage device for display of the signage messages during operation of the beverage delivery vehicle for delivery of beverages.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step (b) comprises the step of providing an electronic expression of the signage message to a memory device for display on an electronic image display screen in the signage device.

8. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step (b) comprises the step of providing a an endless loop signage panel bearing a plurality of signage messages for disposing around opposing rollers for rotation to display the signage messages selectively.

9. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein the step (b) comprises the step of providing a plurality of sign panels for attaching to separate signage assemblies, the plurality of sign panels bearing a complete signage message for display and the signage assemblies operatively linked so that the sign panels for a signage message are displayed for viewing simultaneously.

10. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising the step of tracking and reporting the display of the signage messages.