Display device

• US 3,162,008 A
• Filed: 04/02/1963
• Issued: 12/22/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph Mermelstein, Michael Z. Berger
• Original Assignee: Joseph Mermelstein, Michael Z. Berger
• Inventors: Berger, Michael Z., Mermelstein, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US04/269,911
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• US Class Current: 368/80
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 45/0007 Light-, colour-, line-, or spot-effects caused by parts or pictures moved by the clockwork disc-shaped indicating parts G04B19/046, G04B19/202; figures or parts thereof for indicating the time, moved by the clockwork G04B25/06

Claims

1. A TIME PIECE DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING AN OPAQUE FACE PLATE CARRYING A VISUAL REPRESENTATION ON THE FRONT FACE THEREOF, A LAYER OF LIGHT POLARIZING MATERIAL DIRECTLY SUPERIMPOSED UPON SAID VISUAL REPRESENTATION, A DISC OF LIGHT POLARIZING MATERIAL OVERLYING SAID POLARIZING LAYER, A TIMING MOTOR DISPOSED BEHIND SAID FACE PLATE AND INCLUDING A SECOND HAND DRIVE SHAFT PASSING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID FACE PLATE AND POLARIZING LAYER AND AFFIXED TO SAID POLARIZING DISC SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE CENTER THEREOF, A PAIR OF MINUTE HAND AND HOUR HAND DRIVE CANNON SHAFTS COAXIAL WITH SAID SECOND HAND DRIVE SHAFT AND DRIVEN BY SAID TIMING MOTOR, AND A MINUTE HAND AND AN HOUR HAND AFFIXED TO SAID CANNON SHAFTS AND DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID POLARIZING LAYER AND SAID POLARIZING DISC.