Isolated access assembly for back-to-back electronic display and static display

• US 8,418,387 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2010
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
• Inventors: Swatt, Bill, Dunn, William R.
• Primary Examiner(s): PAPE, ZACHARY
• Application Number:
  US12/833,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20110134356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.04, 361/679.06, 361/679.07, 405/49, 406/061.8
• US Class Current: 40/606.18
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 15/0012 frames therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/22 Advertising or display means on roads, walls or similar surfaces, e.g. illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/33 being semiconductor devices, e.g. diodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/335 being organic light emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/35 being liquid crystals G09F9/302 takes precedence; liquid crystal materials C09K19/00; liquid crystal panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell per se G02F1/13

Abstract

An isolated access assembly for a back-to-back electronic display and static display setup. A central housing contains an electronic display with a static display being hingedly attached to the central housing on the opposite side of the electronic display. The static display can rotate to allow access to the rear of the electronic display without permitting access to the static display itself. A front door may be hingedly attached to the central housing and placed in front of the electronic display to allow the front portion of the electronic display to be accessed and serviced. A rear door may be hingedly attached to the static display to allow the static display to be accessed and serviced. A first locking mechanism may control access to the rear portion of the electronic display while a second locking mechanism may control access to the front portion of the electronic display. A first advertising party may be given proper access to the first and second locking mechanisms. A third locking mechanism may control access to the static display. A second advertising party may be given proper access to the third locking mechanism.

Claims

1. An isolated access assembly for a back-to-back electronic display and static display setup, the assembly comprising:

a central housing which contains an electronic display;

a front door hingedly fastened to the central housing;

an LED backlight and graphic hingedly fastened to the central housing; and

a rear door fastened to the LED backlight and graphic.

2. The isolated access assembly of claim 1 further comprising:

a first locking mechanism which fastens the front door to the central housing;

a second locking mechanism which fastens the LED backlight and graphic to the central housing; and

a third locking mechanism which fastens the rear door to the LED backlight and graphic.

3. The isolated access assembly of claim 2 further comprising:

a first key which unlocks the first and second locking mechanisms; and

a second key which unlocks the third locking mechanism.

4. The isolated access assembly of claim 2 further comprising:

a gutter between the front door and central housing.

5. The isolated access assembly of claim 4 further comprising:

a gutter between the rear door and static display assembly.

6. The isolated access assembly of claim 5 further comprising:

compressible sealing material between the front door and central housing.

7. The isolated access assembly of claim 1 wherein:

the front door is hingedly fastened to the central housing;

the LED backlight and graphic is hingedly fastened to the central housing; and

the rear door is hingedly fastened to the LED backlight and graphic.

8. The isolated access assembly of claim 7 wherein:

the front door comprises a transparent window surrounded by a frame,

the rear door comprises a transparent window surrounded by a frame.

9. The isolated access assembly of claim 1 wherein:

the electronic display is an OLED display.

10. The isolated access assembly of claim 1 wherein:

the electronic display is an OLED display.

11. An isolated access assembly for a back-to-back electronic display and LED-backlit graphic setup, the assembly comprising:

a stationary central housing having two vertical edges which connect two horizontal edges;

an electronic display with a front display surface mounted within the stationary central housing;

an LED backlight and graphic removably fastened to at least one of the vertical edges of the stationary central housing and facing approximately 180 degrees away from the front display surface of the electronic display; and

a first locking mechanism which locks the LED backlight and graphic to the stationary central housing.

12. The isolated access assembly of claim 11 further comprising:

a first frame hingedly mounted to one of the vertical edges of the stationary housing and placed adjacent to the electronic display; and

a first sheet of glass within the frame.

13. The isolated access assembly of claim 12 further comprising:

a second frame hingedly mounted to the LED backlight and graphic; and

a second sheet of glass within the frame.

14. The isolated access assembly of claim 12 further comprising:

a second locking mechanism which locks the first frame to the stationary central housing.

15. The isolated access assembly of claim 14 further comprising:

a third locking mechanism which locks the second frame to the LED backlight and graphic.

16. The isolated access assembly of claim 15 further comprising:

compressible sealing material between the first frame and the stationary central housing and compressible sealing material between the second frame and a static display assembly comprising the LED backlight and graphic.

17. An isolated access assembly for a back-to-back liquid crystal display and static display setup, the assembly comprising:

6 a stationary central housing having first and second vertical edges which connect top and bottom horizontal edges;

an LED-backlit liquid crystal display (LCD) with a front display surface mounted within the stationary central housing;

a static display assembly comprising an LED backlit graphic, the display assembly hingedly fastened to the first vertical edge of the stationary central housing and facing the opposite direction as the front display surface of the LCD, the static display assembly having first and second vertical edges where the first vertical edge of the static display assembly is attached to the first vertical edge of the stationary central housing;

a first pair of locking mechanisms along the top and bottom horizontal edges of the stationary central housing which lock the static display assembly to the stationary central housing;

a first frame hingedly mounted to the second vertical edge of the stationary housing and placed in front of the front display surface of the LCD;

a first sheet of glass within the first frame;

a second pair of locking mechanisms along the top and bottom horizontal edges of the stationary central housing which lock the first frame to the stationary central housing;

compressible sealing material between the first frame and the stationary central housing;

a second frame hingedly mounted to the first vertical edge of the static display assembly;

a second sheet of glass within the second frame;

a locking means along the second vertical edge of the static display assembly which locks the second frame to the static display assembly; and

compressible sealing material between the second frame and the static display assembly.