ADVERTISING-PILLAR

• US 3,713,237 A
• Filed: 12/24/1970
• Issued: 01/30/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Werner Carstens, Willy Thomson
• Original Assignee: Werner Carstens, Willy Thomson
• Inventors: Thomson, Willy, Carstens, Werner
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Carter, Richard
• Application Number:
  US05/101,378
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 40/130,132D,145,63,64,133B,132
• US Class Current: 40/575
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/04 Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/0454 Slidable panels or parts
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0075 Pillars

Abstract

Advertising-pillar with a transparant substantially cylindrical wall illuminated from the interior and being divided into panels by vertical and, if any, horizontal strips provided with grooves for receiving windows and removable, advertising posters situated between two foils, the interior of the pillar being accessible through at least one of said windows.

Claims

1. Illuminated display pillar adapted to hold an information carrier, particularly for advertising purposes, comprising a central light source;

a transparent, substantially cylindrical casing surrounding the central light source and subdivided into windows extending around the circumference of the casing;

top and bottom circularly extending in planes substantially perpendicularly to the axis of the cylindrical casing;

transverse connecting strips extending between the top and bottom strips, the transverse connecting strips subdividing the casing into window areas, and at least two opposite strips being formed with groove means;

a protective pane inserted in the groove means, one of said strips adjacent at least one of the panes being separable from the casing to permit removal of the pane;

a second set of circularly shaped strips having groove means formed therein located circumferentially inside of said top and bottom strips; and

a pair of flexible, transparent resilient foils inserted in the groove means of said second set of strips and extending between the top and the bottom strips, said flexible foil being adapted to retain an information carrier therebetween.

2. Pillar according to claim 1, wherein the casing has a circular cross section and the groove means of the second set of strips into which the foils are slidable form part of a circle to locate the foils in the grooves while the foils are flexed.

3. Pillar according to claim 1, wherein the two transparent foils are connected to each other along an edge, said edge forming the leading edge for inserting the foils into the groove means of the second set of strips.

4. Pillar according to claim 3, wherein both foils are formed by bending a larger piece of foil sheet over 180* .