Multiple vision sign

• US 3,246,410 A
• Filed: 05/08/1964
• Issued: 04/19/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Joseph Festa
• Original Assignee: Joseph Festa
• Inventors: Festa, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US04/365,973
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• US Class Current: 40/472
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 11/025 the members being rotated simultaneously, each face of the member carrying a part of the sign

Claims

1. A MULTIPLE VISION SIGN COMPRISING:

AN UPPER AND A LOWER ENDLESS CHAIN, EACH BEING COMPOSED OF LONG AND SHORT LINKING MEMBERS;

A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL VIEWING PANELS, ONE EACH BEING SUPPORTED BY AND MOUTNED ON A LONG LINKING MEMBER OF THE UPPER CHAIN AND A LONG LINKING MEMBER OF THE LOWER CHAIN SO AS TO FORM A PLURALITY OF ENDLESS BELTS POSITIONED SIDE BY SIDE AND EACH BELT HAVING A SIMILAR PLURALITY OF SAID VIEWING PANELS, ONE PANEL AT A TIME OF EACH BELT BEING POSITIONABLE IN A COMMON VIEWING PLANE, SAID PANELS, ONE OF EACH BELT, WHEN IN THE VIEWING PLANE TOGETHER COMPOSING A PICTURE, THERE BEING AS MANY DIFFERENT PICTURES AS THERE ARE PANELS PER BELT;

PROPELLER MEANS MOVABLE AND DISENGAGEABLE FROM SAID LINKING MEMBERS AND CAPABLE OF CONCURRENTLY DRIVINGLY ENGAGING THE INNER SURFACE OF AN UPPER AND A LOWER LINKING MEMBER SUPPORTING ONE OF SAID PANELS WHEN SAID LATTER PANEL IS MOMENTARILY IN SAID VIEWING PLANE, TO FIRST PIVOT SAID LATTER PANEL BY APPROXIMATELY 90* AND OUT OF SAID VIEWING PLANE AND THEREAFTER PIVOT A JUXTAPOSED PANEL OF THE SAME BELT BY 90* INTO SAID VIEWING PLANE;

AND MEANS FOR STOPPING SAID MOVABLE MEANS SUBSEQUENT TO SAID TWO SUCCEEDING 90* PIVOT MOTIONS AS IMPARTED UPON SAID TWO PANELS.