Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Business processing using cryptography – Secure transaction
Reexamination Certificate
1997-06-04
2001-09-11
Cuomo, Peter M. (Department: 3636)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Business processing using cryptography
Secure transaction
C312S258000, C348S838000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06289326
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to display processes and devices generally, and more particularly, to portable kiosks generating a variable visible display while accepting and responding to inquiries from viewers.
2. Background Art
The convention and trade-show industry has grown substantially over the past three decades, with municipalities each constructing large exhibition halls and competing to host several conventions and shows every year. Generally, contemporary designs for convention and trade-show booths seek to present visual displays endowed with sufficient aesthetic quality to appear as exhibits able to attract substantial customer traffic during the course of the show. The architectural components of the booths and their visual displays require substantial time for unpacking, erection and electrical wiring prior to the scheduled opening of the show, with a similar requirement of time and labor for a knockdown of the visual display by disassembly, packing and crating at the end of the show, in preparation for an expedited shipment to the site of the next show. Concomitantly, contractual requirements with municipally owned and urban located exhibition halls and centers invariably require the use of various trade crafts, including locally hired carpenters, electricians, riggers and laborers, often at union wage scale, frequently with overtime and week-end wage differentials, to complete the erection of the display. With the knock-down at the end of each show, the shock sensitive electrical equipment, including audio-visual units, computers, monitors and keyboards, must be removed from the architectural components of the display and separately packed in specialized shipping containers.
Not infrequently, exhibitions and trade shows are scheduled on a circuit, with the closing of an exhibition in one city followed in one or two days, by the opening of a trade show in a different city that is not infrequently, located in a different area of the country. Traditionally, transportation of trade show exhibits is arranged either by contract or specialized haulers, typically using trailer trucks, a source of additional cost as well as delay in re-erection of the exhibit at the next trade show.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore, one object to the present invention to provide an improved interactive kiosk.
It is another object to provide a process and portable structure capable of generating a variable visual display during interaction with pedestrian traffic within the vicinity of the structure.
It is still another object to provide a portable kiosk able to serve as a shipping container for delicate electronic equipment.
It is yet another object to provide a transportable kiosk suitable to house electronic equipment during exhibitions in a manner enabling persons attending the exhibitions to interact with the kiosk, while protecting that electronic equipment from damage during transport between exhibitions.
It is still yet another object to provide a portable kiosk amenable to on-site erection, and subsequent knock-down, by a single individual, with a minimum of effort.
It is further object to provide a self-contained portable kiosk demonstrating a substantially greater volume when in its erected state, than while in its folded state.
It is a still further object to provide a portable kiosk that, when collapsed, will be accepted as ordinary overnight freight by international cargo carriers and couriers, for overnight and next-day delivery.
It is a yet further object to provide a portable and foldable electronically interactive kiosk that when in its knocked-down, collapsed state, is able to contain all component parts used by the kiosk during its erected, unfolded state.
It is still a yet further object to provide a portable electronically interactive kiosk able to securely mount a wide range of different sizes of electronic equipment using corner brackets with each of the brackets able to provide three-fasterner attachment to a rotatable shelf for over ninety percent of the different sizes.
It is also an object to provide a portable, electronically interactive kiosk sheathed with exterior, double-sided panels.
These and other objects may be achieved with an electronically interactive kiosk having an upright main body mounted upon casters, and a plurality of pivotally mounted internal, shock absorbing shelves configured to securely mount sensitive electronic and audio-visual equipment. A pair of oppositely mounted side frames are supported by the main body, and may be rotatably deployed during set-up to support the shelves and a mount for a variable visual display and a tray for other peripheral equipment such as a keyboard and mouse. During knock-down, the shelves are rotatable into the interior of the main frame while bearing their respective items of electronic and audio-visual equipment when the mount is rotatably dropped across the front of the main frame. Other members are removable without tools and stored in the interior of the main frame, while the side frames are then folded across the front of the main frame, and the entire assembly is wheeled into a shipping container substantially smaller in volume than the erected kiosk and acceptable by competing international courier carriers for overnight delivery at the site of the next trade show.
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Anderson Jerry A.
Bushnell , Esq. Robert E.
Cuomo Peter M.
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