Advertising display and method

• US 8,393,101 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2010
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Urban Storm Management Limited
• Original Assignee: Urban Storm Limited
• Inventors: Knight, Peter, Cook, Sam Kimber Ross
• Primary Examiner(s): Silbermann, Joanne
• Assistant Examiner(s): JUNGE, KRISTINA N S
• Application Number:
  US12/691,001
• Publication Number:
  US 20100199536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 406/111.2, 406/03, 406/04, 406/061.1, 38/12, 381/02, 245/16
• US Class Current: 40/611.12
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0018 panel clamping or fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0025 display surface tensioning means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44017 with specific mounting means for attaching to rigid or semirigid supporting structure or structure-to-be-secured
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44034 Dissociable gripping members
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44521 Pivoted or rotated element
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49838 by stringing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49959 Nonresilient fastener

Abstract

A poster clamp (1) comprising first and second members (3, 5), the members (3, 5) comprising first and second gripping surfaces (7), respectively, for gripping opposing sides of a poster or a like, and a poster mounting system comprising a hoarding (208) and a plurality of such clamps (1), and a wire (210) on which the clamps (1) are to be mounted for tightening a poster within the frame of the hoarding (208).

Claims

1. A poster mounting system comprising a loop or length of wire incorporated into or onto a poster hoarding generally around at least part of its perimeter and a plurality of clamps attached to or attachable to the wire, wherein the clamps are for attaching a poster to be displayed to the wire by simultaneously engaging edges of the poster and being attached to the wire, the wire being in a generally tightened condition, the system further comprising a guide frame or guide frame members defining edges over which edges the poster is drawn and taughtened as the wire is drawn from a slackened condition into a tightened condition, the guide frame or guide frame members having a generally saw-tooth cross section with a tip, the tip defining the or each edge over which the poster is drawn to taughten it into a flat configuration, and flanges extending to the sides of the saw-tooth parallel and in plane relative to one another for attaching the guide frame or guide frame members to a back of the poster hoarding.

2. The poster mounting system of claim 1, wherein multiple guide frame members each have a coplanar edge over which the poster can bear.

3. A poster mounting system according to claim 1, at least one of the poster clamps comprising first and second members, the members comprising first and second surfaces, respectively, for gripping opposing sides of a poster, the two members being arranged for pivotal movement with respect for one another about pivot axles and having a clamping device for clamping the two surfaces towards one another.

4. The poster mounting system according to claim 3, the clamps further comprising a resilient tongue to bias the two gripping surfaces apart.

5. The poster mounting system according to claim 3, wherein the first and second members pivot relative to one another for making the two gripping surfaces grip a poster.

6. The poster mounting system according to claim 3 comprising one or more posts on the first member and one or more holes in the second member, for receiving the post or posts, and the clamps comprising a third member being for securing or latching or hooking onto the post or posts.

7. The poster mounting system according to claim 6, wherein the third member is separable from the first and second members.

8. The poster mounting system according to claim 3, wherein the clamps comprise a third member that is movable relative to the first and/or second member, and which is provided for selectively biasing the two gripping surfaces together.

9. The poster mounting system of claim 8, wherein the third member has one or more camming surfaces for pressing against an opposing surface of one of the first and second members.

10. The poster mounting system of claim 9, wherein an end part of the movement of the third member into a final clamping position is an over-centre movement for the cam.

11. The poster mounting system of claim 3, the clamps having molded therein or thereon, as a number, a thickness dimension of the poster that the clamp is designed to accommodate between its gripping surfaces with the gripping surfaces still being maintained parallel to one another.

12. The poster mounting system according to claim 3, further comprising a third member that is pivotally mounted onto the first or second member about a first pivot axis, and having a camming surface or surfaces spaced from that pivot axis by a varying radius.

13. The poster mounting system of claim 12, wherein the third member is pivotally mounted to the first member, with the second member being sandwiched between them.

14. The poster mounting system of claim 13, wherein the third member is pivotally mounted onto one or more posts that extend up from the gripping surface of the first member.

15. The poster mounting system of claim 12, the clamps supplied with at least two different third members, only one of which being useable at a time on the clamp, each of those two third members having cam with a different camming profile to the others.

16. The poster mounting system according to claim 3, the first and second members being pivotally connected to one another so as to define a second pivot axis, wherein that second pivot axis is formed by pairs of apertures and pivot axles in the first and second members and wherein the apertures are elongated to allow the second pivot axis to float within the aperture to allow a wide range of poster thicknesses to be accommodated between the first and second surfaces while still maintaining those surfaces parallel to one another.

17. The poster mounting system of claim 3, wherein each surface for gripping a poster comprises a plurality of grooves, the grooves extending generally parallel to one another from one side of the clamp to the other side of the clamp.

18. The poster mounting system of claim 3, wherein the first and second surfaces intermesh upon clamping them together, whereby, upon compressing the two gripping surfaces onto a poster, the poster will be caused to at least partially deflect into grooves or indentations, or both, on the surfaces so as to assume a corresponding profile to the intermeshing gripping surfaces.

19. The poster mounting system of claim 1 comprising a poster clamp comprising first and second members, the members comprising first and second surfaces, respectively, for gripping opposing sides of a poster, the two members being arranged for pivotal movement with respect for one another and having a clamping device for clamping the two surfaces towards one another.