Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Signs – Stretched or tensioned
Patent
1997-09-08
1998-12-08
Green, Brian K.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Signs
Stretched or tensioned
40590, 160328, G09F 1700
Patent
active
058454233
ABSTRACT:
A substrate upon which an advertising message may be printed is releasably attachable to the side of a truck in a way that prevents the substrate from flapping when the truck is moving at high speeds. The upper and rearward edges of the substrate are retained within rigid frames mounted to the truck and are quickly insertable into or removable from such rigid frames. The forward edge of the substrate is wrapped around the forward corner of the truck trailer so that wind cannot get under the substrate, and a plurality of front-mounted winches pull the forward edge toward them so that slack is removed from the substrate. Another plurality of winches mounted on the underside of the trailer engage straps that hold the lowermost edge of the substrate so that activation of the winches pulls the lowermost edge toward those winches to further remove slack from the substrate. Another embodiment adds sailboat-like battens to further inhibit substrate flapping and a final embodiment replaces the front-mounted winches with a take-up reel arrangement.
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patent: 4756107 (1988-07-01), Hillstrom
patent: 5046545 (1991-09-01), Loomis et al.
patent: 5349772 (1994-09-01), Pardue
patent: 5408770 (1995-04-01), Suzuki
patent: 5507109 (1996-04-01), Rinzler
Green Brian K.
Smith Ronald E.
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