Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Illuminated sign – Gas filled tube
Patent
1988-12-02
1990-11-13
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Illuminated sign
Gas filled tube
40541, 40553, 52105, 52311, 362145, 362362, G09F 1900
Patent
active
049692828
ABSTRACT:
An illuminated display or sign includes a hollow glass block defining a closed chamber. One or more block walls are severable for access to the chamber. A neon display or other light source of any configuration is mounted upon the glass block and includes tubular extensions sealed through one wall of the block enclosing electrodes within the chamber. A transformer is enclosed within the chamber with output leads connected to the electrodes. A switch is mounted upon the block and projects into the chamber with a exterior control. Electric leads are connectable to a power source then into the block and are connected to the transformer with a switch interposed in one of the electrical leads within the chamber. As a modification, a display sign is supported within the chamber. As a further modification, two or more glass blocks are arranged in a row or intersecting rows to form a panel, with an independent display in each block or a unit display extending into and enclosed by a plurality of adjacent blocks.
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The Smithsonian, Jun. 1989, p. 85.
Dorner Kenneth J.
Gossett Dykema
Hakomaki J.
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