Reflective sign

• US 7,152,353 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2004
• Issued: 12/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ivica J. Jurkovic
• Original Assignee: Ivica J. Jurkovic
• Inventors: Jurkovic, Ivica J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Morris, Lesley D.
• Application Number:
  US10/979,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20060090385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 405/82, 406/71, 406/15, 406/16
• US Class Current: 40/615
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/16 Signs formed of or incorporating reflecting elements or surfaces, e.g. warning signs having triangular or other geometrical shape

Abstract

A reflective sign comprises a front face, an image formed by openings in the front face, a back face connected to the front face, and a reflective surface mounted on the back face behind the image, wherein light passing through the openings in the front face is reflected by the reflective surface back out through the openings.

Claims

1. A reflective sign comprising, in combination:

a front face;

an image formed by openings in the front face;

a back face, wherein the front face has at least one resiliently deformable tab, and the tab releasably engages the back face at a corresponding opening when the front face and the back face are connected; and

a reflective surface mounted on the back face behind the image, the reflective surface comprising a reflective tape adhesively attached to a front side of the back face;

wherein light passing through the openings in the front face is reflected by the reflective surface back out through the openings.

2. The reflective sign of claim 1 wherein the front face and back face are each made of a plastic.

3. The reflective sign of claim 2 wherein the plastic is polypropylene.

4. The reflective sign of claim 2 wherein the back face plastic is translucent.

5. The reflective sign of claim 2 wherein the back face is retroreflective.

6. The reflective sign of claim 1 wherein the front face and the back face are provided with a plurality of openings, with each opening adapted to receive a corresponding fastener for attaching the reflective sign to a wall.

7. The reflective sign of claim 1 wherein reflective surface comprises a reflective tape adhesively attached to a back side of the back face.

8. The reflective sign of claim 1 wherein the image comprises letters.