Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Illuminated sign – Lamp box
Patent
1996-08-14
1997-07-08
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Illuminated sign
Lamp box
40547, 24822211, A63H 304
Patent
active
056448600
ABSTRACT:
An illuminated sign comprising a housing which defines an opening and includes a light source disposed therewithin. Attached to the housing and covering the opening is a display assembly. The display assembly comprises a perforated outer plate which defines front and back surfaces and includes a plurality of apertures disposed therein. Secured to the back surface of the outer plate is a flexible, opaque diaphragm including a plurality of slits disposed therein which are aligned with respective ones of the apertures of the outer plate. A second flexible opaque diaphragm is also provided which includes slits formed therein in off-set alignment with the slits of the first diaphragm. The display assembly further includes a plurality of light-transmitting pegs, each of which are extensible through respective ones of the apertures and slits which are aligned with each other. The slits are sized and configured to frictionally retain the pegs within the display assembly when the pegs are extended therethrough, and to block the passage of light from the light source through the apertures of the outer plate when the pegs are removed or not extended therethrough.
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Busnardo Christine M.
Piper Timothy M.
Davis Cassandra
Dorner Kenneth J.
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