Changeable message display

• US 3,299,553 A
• Filed: 09/27/1965
• Issued: 01/24/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David Coby, Herman Newman
• Original Assignee: David Coby, Herman Newman
• Inventors: Newman, Herman, Coby, David
• Application Number:
  US04/490,216
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• US Class Current: 40/463
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 11/34 the feeding means comprising electromagnets

Claims

1. A CHANGEABLE MESSAGE DISPLAY, SAID DISPLAY COMPRISING A HOUSING HAVING A VIEWING WINDOW, A SHUTTER IN SAID HOUSING IN CLOSING RELATION WITH SAID WINDOW AND MOUNTED FOR ALTERNATE MOVEMENT OUT OF THE VIEWING PLANE OF SAID WINDOW INTO A SECOND PLANE IN SAID HOUSING, A PLURALITY OF DISPLAYS MOUNTED IN SAID S ECOND PLANE OF SAID HOUSING FOR SELECTIVE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT INTO AND OUT OF SAID FIRST VIEWING PLANE OF SAID WINDOW, A FIRST OPERATING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID SHUTTER, A PLURALITY OF SECOND OPERATING MEANS RESPECTIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID DISPLAYS TO EFFECT MOVEMENT OF THE SAME, AND A PLURALITY OF ACTUATING MEANS RESPECTIVELY CONNECTED IN EACH OF SAID SECOND OPERATING MEANS OF SAID DISPLAYS, ALL OF SAID PLURALITY OF ACTUATING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO THE SAID FIRST OPERATING MEANS OF SAID SHUTTER, WHEREBY, BY THE ACTUATION OF ANY OF SAID ACTUATING MEANS THE SAID SHUTTER IS MOVED OUT OF THE VIEWING PLANE OF SAID WINDOW AND INTO SAID SECOND PLANE AND A CORRESPONDING DISPLAY WILL MOVE OUT OF SAID SECOND PLANE INTO THE SAID VIEWING PLANE OF SAID WINDOW, AND, THE DE-ACTUATION OF THE ACTUATING MEANS WILL MOVE THE SAID SHUTTER OUT OF THE SAID SECOND PLANE INTO THE SAID VIEWING PLANE AND THE SAID DISPLAY WILL MOVE OUT OF SAID VIEWING PLANE AND INTO THE SAID SECOND PLANE.