Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Signs – Stretched or tensioned
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-24
2001-02-27
Davis, Cassandra H. (Department: 3628)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Signs
Stretched or tensioned
C040S603000, C248S201000, C248S613000, C160S378000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06192611
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to vertically mounted banners and more particularly to a banner support assembly adapted to be mounted on a supporting member for purposes of mounting decorative and advertising banners.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Display devices useful for mounting temporary advertising messages outdoors where the message is readily noticed by people are nowadays common place. Because of the outdoor location of such advertising displays, they must be resistant to weather or protected from the effects of weather. As the wind loads, heat and cold continuously apply and then relax loads to the banner, the banner supporting structure, as well as the banner per se, is stressed and then relaxed on a daily basis. Often, fasteners or other similar means will be loosened by the repeated loads applied to the banner supporting structure by the changes in weather to cause the supporting structure to become loosened and potentially disengaged from the upstanding pole or other such supporting structures.
Current mounting techniques for vertical banners involve mounting such banners with the top horizontal edge of the banner as well as the bottom horizontal edge each having a hem running the width of the banner and thereby allowing a banner arm assembly to be inserted into the sleeve created by the hem. This type of mounting may be of permanent nature i.e. a steel banner arm assembly being welded at 90° on the upstanding post. The banner arm assembly may also possibly be of a removable nature with a fiberglass rod or steel tube inserted into a female socket.
Two of the mostly used vertical banner mounting systems use brackets with fiberglass rod banner arms and brackets with steel tube banner arms. The fiberglass arms are often preferred since they offer more flexibility, thereby permitting a limited cushioning of wind gusts although not offering enough flexibility to spill off high wind forces exerted against the banner. High winds can create forces in excess of 400 pounds per banner range, and without the capability of the banner being able to tip with and deflect the wind, these forces are directly transferred to the banner hems, arms, bracket bases and to the upstanding post. In such instances, wind gusts often result in tearing and damage to the banner.
It has been proposed that the destructive effect of wind gusts on banners be reduced by mounting fiberglass banner arms in a base plate held into a bracket base by means of springs and this might prove sufficient in situation of winds that are not unduly great.
All known techniques work in a way where they merely react to the conditions which makes it more reactive rather than proactive. Therefore, a need exists for the provision of a reliable banner support assembly which makes mounting the banners onto supporting members easy and time efficient and yet provides for the requisite durability and reliability in order to maintain the banner adequately supported and taut on the supporting member, thereby ensuring premium appearance of the message.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention overcomes the above shortcomings.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved banner support assembly making mounting of banners on upstanding posts easy and efficient.
It is another object of the present invention to provide for a durable and reliable banner support assembly thereby ensuring premium appearance of the banner.
It will be appreciated from the following detailed description of the invention that the new and improved banner support assembly provides for flexibility to allow wind loads applied to the erected banner to spill before any over stressing of the banner support assembly occurs.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a banner support assembly so reliable that a mounted banner will remain taut and will not become disengaged therefrom due to repeated loadings by wind and other weather elements acting on the banner supported by the banner support assembly.
It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide for an adapted banner construction for use in combination with the banner support assembly.
In accordance with another object of the present invention there is provided a banner support assembly adapted to be mounted on a supporting member for purposes of engaging and holding taut an elongated banner, said banner support assembly comprising a) first and second extending arms each being mounted in spaced relation onto said supporting member; b) first and second housing members adapted to receive corresponding first and second banner extremities which are secured therein; c) multiple rod members secured to first and second housing members and positioned through apertures in the first and second extending arms; d) attachment means correspondingly working in combination with the rod members thereby securing the banner to the first and second extending arms.
In accordance with another object of the present invention there is provided a banner support assembly adapted to be mounted on an upstanding post for purposes of engaging and holding taut an elongated banner, said banner support assembly comprising: a) first and second horizontally extending arms mounted in spaced relation onto the upstanding post; b) first and second grooved housing members adapted to receive corresponding first and second reinforced banner extremities which are secured therein; c) multiple rod members secured to first and second housing members, connected with the banner extremities, and positioned through apertures in the first and second horizontally extending arms mounted onto the upstanding post; d) spring-loaded attachment means correspondingly working in combination with the rod members thereby securing the banner to the first and second horizontally extending arms.
Further objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description, wherein preferred embodiments of the invention are clearly shown.
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Bungee Banner Inc.
Davis Cassandra H.
Greer Burns & Crain Ltd.
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