Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Barrel- – can- or round box-carried indicia
Patent
1987-09-18
1991-04-23
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Barrel-, can- or round box-carried indicia
47 73, G09F 300
Patent
active
050090186
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a piece of urban furniture whose primary purpose is to display advertising on supports provided therefor, illuminated or not, designed, for example, for posters measuring 40.times.60 cm. With reference to the attached drawings, this piece of furniture is constituted by a main body (3) resting on a bearing base (2). This body (3) is provided at its upper part with two nested flower stands (5). This body (3) contains at least one container (7) intended to receive objects and accessible through a wide door (8). This body (3) comprises on each of its four faces a display or advertising panel, illuminated or not, forming an advertising support (11). The door (8) acts as one of the advertising support faces. This body (3) is topped by an upper volume (4) of which two faces (9,10) form, each of them, a display panel, illuminated or not, as an advertising display support. The other faces (20), (21) each comprise at least one opening through which are introduced the objects to be received in said furniture. The said upper volume (4) is itself topped by a ridge roof (13).
The upper part (4) can in one case form a basket receptacle for discarded newspapers (12), one face of which forms an advertising support and can be opened to introduce and remove a receptacle (16) resting on the bottom of the said upper part (4), while the container in the lower part of the body (3) is a recipient for refuse, filled through two openings (6) disposed in the horizontal upper part of the said body (3). In another case the upper part (4) of this furniture constitutes a letter box (12), one face of which (21) has a large opening (28) for mail of large formate and the other face (20) on the opposite side, has two openings (26), (27), for example for local and national mail. This upper part (4) communicates in its bottom with the body (3) and has, on the inside, a vertical partition (23) parallel to the faces provided with openings for the various types of mail and extending down to the lower part (3) to divide the furniture in two; one of the halves situated on the side of the two openings being itself provided with a partition (24) perpendicular to the first in order to subdivide it further into two parts in the upper part (4) alone. According to another characteristic, in the case of the letter box, the body (3) is provided on the inside with means of holding three collection bags (7'), (7"), (7'") for the various sorts of mail. These bags will be suspended and placed under the openings, inside the body (3) and level with the upper part of this body (3). There will be two bags side by side, adjoining the two openings and a large bag on the "printed matter" side.
In a preferred embodiment, the flower stands are disposed on two opposite sides of the body (3) on either side of the upper volume (4) and on the sides corresponding to the faces having the openings (17), (26), (27), (28) of the upper volume (4). According to other characteristics applicable to the two uses defined above, this furniture can be made of high-strength, reinforced polyester, although it can also be made of other materials. This furniture will be connected to the public lighting supply for electricity when there are illuminated advertising panels.
A detailed description of the nonlimiting modes of embodiment will be presented with reference to the attached drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view in perspective of the furniture when used with a newspaper basket and refuse container according to a first embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a profile view of the furnitute shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the furniture, again when used with a newspaper basket and refuse container according to a second embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a view corresponding to FIG. 3 in open position.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the furniture applied to the constitution of a letter box according to a first embodiment.
FIG. 6 is a first wide-angle perspective view showing a second embodiment of the furniture, again applied to use with a letter box.
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Dorner Kenneth J.
Hakomaki J.
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