Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Including component designed to receive a disparate article... – Sign; e.g. – nameplate or ornament
Patent
1981-11-27
1984-07-10
Raduazo, Henry E.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Including component designed to receive a disparate article...
Sign; e.g., nameplate or ornament
5212711, 52731, 52584, 52 40, G09F 718
Patent
active
044584555
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a building set for the setting up of a rectangular, upright plate, e.g. a panel or a signboard, whose one vertical side face or both of them form the basis for the displaying of signs.
The object of the invention is to provide a building set of the type mentioned above which is simple to assemble without the use of visible screws, bolts or the like which disfigure the vertical side faces of the plate, in particular.
This is achieved according to the invention in that the building set stated above is characterized by the features defined in the characterizing portion of claim 1.
The building set is assembled by joining the two plate sections with the locking means which is inserted into the dovetailed tracks of the plate sections so that each of the two parts of the locking means is disposed in its half of the track in its plate section. Then an end profile is inserted at each end of the plate or the sign. When the two parts of the locking means, e.g. by means of a pointed screw, are urged apart, e.g. with a tool inserted into the space between the plate sections, the plate sections will be clamped to the locking means and also be urged towards each other because of the wedge effect so that the end profiles will be fixed between the plate sections. If the plate has such a size and weight that the friction obtained by the wedge effect is too small to secure the parts of the building set against mutual displacement, several locking means may of course be used, preferably one at either end of the plate. Each plate section may alternatively be shaped with a dovetailed projection or with several dovetailed projections so that these projections will be disposed between two of said tracks. In that case, the corresponding wedge effect may be obtained if the two parts of the locking means are arranged to be urged towards each other, e.g. with a screw, so as to fit tightly around the projection.
One or both of the end profiles may, as stated in claim 2, form a carrier means for the sign. In the first case, a kind of sign column is obtained with a sign pointing in a desired direction, and in the second case, two sign columns with a sign set up between them are obtained.
The features defined in claim 3 provide for a sign column with several signs which may be directed in individually desired directions, e.g. as a signpost.
If it is desired that the sign set up should have a height greater than the feasible extrusion height of the constituent plate sections, two or more signs may, as stated in claim 4, be clamped together in the same plate with one or more additional locking means, which are preferably constructed as stated in claim 5.
The features defined in claim 6 provide a reliably controlled connection between the plate sections and the end profiles.
The invention will be explained more fully below with reference to the drawing, in which
FIG. 1 is a perspective and partly sectional view of an embodiment of a building set according to the invention,
FIG. 2 shows a section of FIG. 1 on a greater scale, and
FIG. 3 shows a cross-section of a sign consisting of four joined plate sections.
The building set shown in FIG. 1 and partly in FIG. 2 comprises two uniform, rectangular plate sections 1, 2 which have dovetailed tracks 3, 4 on the internal sides facing each other in the assembled building set, said tracks containing a locking means 5 of similar cross-section.
The locking means 5 comprises two parts 6 and 7 which are mutually slidable transversely to the tracks by means of a pointed screw 8 in the part 7. When the two parts 6 and 7 of the locking means 5 are disposed closely spaced they may be displaced longitudinally of the dovetailed tracks 3, 4, but when the parts 6 and 7 are urged apart transversely to the tracks by means of the pointed screw 8 and a (not shown) screw driver inserted between the plate sections 1 and 2, the parts will be clamped in the dovetailed tracks 3 and 4.
The building set also comprises a vertical end profile 9, 10 at either end of the sign. In the embodiment shown
REFERENCES:
patent: 3486287 (1969-12-01), Guillon
patent: 3685222 (1972-08-01), Curtess
Eslinger Lewis H.
Raduazo Henry E.
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