Apparatus for providing advertisement on a gasoline pump hose

• US 6,233,858 B1
• Filed: 08/25/1998
• Issued: 05/22/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mead, Robert, Philip L. Brach Jr
• Original Assignee: Mead, Robert, Philip L. Brach Jr
• Inventors: Mead, Robert, Brach, Philip L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): GREEN, BRIAN
• Application Number:
  US09/139,413
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 403/16, 406/07, 406/43, 406/51, 406/60, 406/610.3, 406/610.6, 406/611.2, 406/65, 407/79, 406/58, 406/66
• US Class Current: 40/660
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/00 Advertising on or in specific articles, e.g. ashtrays, letter-boxes on or in vehicles G09F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 23/0083 on petrol dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/20 for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels

Abstract

An apparatus for providing advertising on a gas pump hose includes a frame with a slide located on one edge that can be slid into a slide housing located on a hose connector collar. The hose connector collar is connected to the gas pump hose by a clamp located at opposite ends of the hose connector collar. Advertising structure is placed within the frame and at eye level of a customer of the service station to maximize the effect of the advertisement while the customer is at the service station.

Claims

1. An apparatus for attaching advertising media on a gas pump hose, comprising:

a frame having two frame halves defining an advertising media space therebetween;

a hose connector collar connected to the frame, the hose connector collar having a slide housing; and

a hinge about which the frame halves pivot between open and closed positions,

wherein the frame halves include slide halves positioned opposite the hinge, and the slide halves are combined when the frame halves are pivoted to the closed position so that a portion of the slide halves fits within and is detachably connected to the slide housing of the hose connector collar with the frame halves locked in the closed position.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a series of mating indents and outdents located on each of the frame halves that lock the frame halves together.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising slide locking indents provided on each said slide half that mate with slide locking outdents in the slide housing to allow the frame to be locked onto the hose connector collar.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the slide housing includes a slide chamber in which the slide halves are inserted.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hose connector collar comprises a semi-cylindrical portion attached to the slide housing.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising flanges provided on edges of the hose connector collar, each of the flanges defining with the edges of the hose connector collar a clamp runway for receiving a clamp.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each end of the hose connector collar includes a clamp insertion throughway for receiving a clamp.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the advertisement structure further comprises an advertising media positioned within the advertising media receiving space, said advertising media including a plurality of coupons.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of coupons are movable to change the advertising media displayed.

10. An apparatus for interchangeably providing advertising media on a gas pump hose, comprising:

a hose connector collar having a substantially semi-cylindrical shape defining a center of curvature, the collar including a slide housing formed along a longitudinal axis passing through the center of curvature, the hose connector collar defining a clamp runway surface at each longitudinal end of the slide housing, each said clam runway surface extending along an arcuate path transverse to the longitudinal axis;

a frame defining a plane that intersects the longitudinal axis, said frame having an advertising media receiving space and being slidably connected to the slide housing of the hose connector collar; and

a clamp provided for each said clamp runway surface of the hose connector collar.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising an advertising media received within the advertising media receiving space, the advertising media including a plurality of coupons.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the plurality of coupons are movable to change the advertising media displayed.