Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Changing exhibitor – Alphanumeric device
Patent
1978-09-18
1980-08-12
Pitrelli, John F.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Changing exhibitor
Alphanumeric device
40576, 40579, G09F 1306
Patent
active
042165997
ABSTRACT:
A device for selectively displaying alphabetic or numeric characters has a housing which contains several stacked prefabricated subassemblies of any required number of units, each unit having an opaque front plate with a rectangular layout of light permeable spots; and there are film receiving slots with guides at both sides of each unit so that a selected part of a film member associated with a unit may abut the front plate while the rest of the film member is curved rearwardly through the slots. One type of film member has a geometric pattern of matching and contrasting elements which cooperate with light permeable spots forming a block number 8 to define any desired arabic numeral from 0 to 9; while another type of film member has a similar geometric pattern that cooperates with light permeable spots in several parallel vertical columns to define any letter of the alphabet. In either case, several matching and contrasting elements define parts of more than one character, so the film member is relatively short; and index numbers or letters along the top of the film member cooperate with an index element on the housing to visually indicate when a desired numeral or letter is defined.
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Pitrelli John F.
Skillington G. Lee
Thomas A. Schutz Co., Inc.
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