Method and kit for modifying a corrugated sign assembly

• US 8,984,783 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2013
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: William Barry Cepek
• Original Assignee: William Barry Cepek
• Inventors: Cepek, William Barry
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoge, Gary
• Application Number:
  US13/933,824
• Publication Number:
  US 20150007471A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 406/070.3, 406/070.5, 248/165, 838/70
• US Class Current: 40/607.03
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 3/08 specially adapted for cutting cardboard, or wall, floor, or like covering materials
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2007/1804 for fastening to a post
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2007/1826 using channels on the rear of the sign board to be connected to the post, e.g. via clamps
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2007/1834 Signs or the like supported by two lateral posts
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/22 for rotatably or swingably mounting, e.g. for boards adapted to be rotated by the wind
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A method of increasing the stability of a corrugated display apparatus defining a plurality of lower openings and having a plurality of walls at least partially defining a plurality of channels, each with a channel width, spanning from one of the plurality of lower openings toward an upper end of the display apparatus, the method including providing a cutting device with a handle length and a blade member coupled along the handle length, cutting a portion of at least one of the plurality of walls with the blade member to combine two of the plurality of channels adjacent to the cut portion of the at least one of the plurality of walls to create an enlarged channel, and inserting a post-like member into the enlarged channel, the post-like member securely retained within the enlarged channel.

Claims

1. A method of increasing the stability of a corrugated display apparatus defining a plurality of lower openings and having a plurality of walls at least partially defining a plurality of channels, each with a channel width, spanning from one of the plurality of lower openings toward an upper end of the display apparatus, the method comprising:

providing a cutting device having a first end, a second end, a handle length separating the first and second ends, and a blade member coupled along the handle length;

cutting a portion of at least one of the plurality of walls with the blade member to combine at least two of the plurality of channels adjacent to the cut portion of the at least one of the plurality of walls to create an enlarged channel; and

inserting a post-like member into the enlarged channel, the post-like member securely retained within the enlarged channel.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the post-like member comprises:

a proximal end, a distal end, and a length separating the proximal and distal ends, the length having a width greater than at least one of the at least two of the plurality of channels adjacent to the cut portion of the at least one of the plurality of walls.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the enlarged channel includes an enlarged channel width greater than an average width of individual channels within the plurality of channels.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing the post-like member, the post-like member having a width greater than a width of any one of the plurality of channels.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the plurality of channels extend from one of the plurality of lower openings, through the display apparatus, and out one of a plurality of upper openings defined by the upper end of the display apparatus.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

inserting the post-like member into the enlarged channel, the insertion of the post-like member distorting the shape of a corrugated display apparatus corresponding to the enlarged channel.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing the cutting device with a depth stopping device fixedly coupled thereto; and

inserting the post-like member into the enlarged channel until the depth stopping device is substantially adjacent with a lower end of the corrugated display apparatus, the lower end defining the plurality of lower openings.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing the cutting device with two blade members coupled along the handle length, each blade member extending outwardly away from a handle of the cutting device in an opposing orientation from one another; and

cutting a portion of two of the plurality of walls with the blade members to combine two of the plurality of channels adjacent to the cut portions of the two of the plurality of walls to create the enlarged channel.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of walls are of a non-metallic material.

10. A modified corrugated display assembly comprising:

a corrugated display apparatus having;

an upper end;

a lower end defining a plurality of lower openings each with a lower opening width of substantially the same length to one another and at least one enlarged opening, the at least one enlarged opening having a width approximately at least twice a length of a plurality of lower opening widths;

a substantially planar outer surface with indicia communicating a message to a viewing public;

an inner surface; and

a corrugated wall structure separated by the outer and inner surfaces, the corrugated wall structure having;

a plurality of walls at least partially defining a plurality of channels, each of the plurality of channels with a channel width and spanning from one of the plurality of lower openings toward the upper end of the display apparatus; and

a plurality of walls at least partially defining at least one enlarged channel with an enlarged channel width and spanning from the at least one enlarged opening toward the upper end of the display apparatus, the enlarged channel width of approximately at least twice a length of a plurality of channel widths; and

a post-like member securely retained within the at least one enlarged channel.

11. The modified corrugated display assembly according to claim 10, wherein:

the at least one enlarged opening is juxtaposed with the plurality of lower openings.

12. The modified corrugated display assembly according to claim 10, wherein:

the at least one enlarged opening is juxtaposed on each side with the plurality of lower openings.

13. The modified corrugated display assembly according to claim 10, wherein:

the at least one enlarged opening has a width approximately at least twice the length of each of the plurality of lower opening widths.

14. The modified corrugated display assembly according to claim 10, wherein:

the enlarged channel width of approximately at least twice the length of each of the plurality of channel widths.