Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Signs – Sign support
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-20
2001-11-20
Green, Brian K. (Department: 3628)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Signs
Sign support
C040S607060
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318011
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to the operation of vehicle dealers'display yards, and in particular to the provision of advertising signage therein.
It is important, particularly where second hand vehicles are involved, for brief details, such as price, distance travelled, age and optional features possessed by each vehicle in the yard, to be made apparent to prospective customers. Typically this is achieved by painting on the vehicle windscreen or by displaying a sign board adjacent the vehicle, usually supported by a portable, free standing frame.
The first mentioned practice is undesirable as it renders the vehicle unsafe to drive and many customers want to test drive a vehicle before buying it. The second mentioned practice is undesirable because it is commercially important for vehicle dealers to display as many vehicles as possible in their yards, if only to reduce the yard rental cost per vehicle, and conventional free standing frames occupy aisle space between vehicles and so reduce the yard capacity.
Thus, there is a need for an advertising sign which may be temporarily and readily associated with a vehicle being offered for sale, which is preferably able to be read by a prospective customer facing the front of the vehicle, and which provides little or no obstruction either visually or physically to a person wishing to inspect the vehicle.
An object of the present invention is to fulfil that need.
The invention achieves that object by providing a sign board support structure which is inexpensive, which permits a sign to be suspended for display above a vehicle to which it relates, which occupies very little yard space around the vehicle, which has little impact on the visibility of, or accessibility to, the vehicle and which may be effectively stabilized against wind loads on the sign by the vehicle itself without damage thereto.
The invention consists in a sign board support structure comprising an upright mast, a substantially horizontally extending cantilever projecting from the mast at or near the top thereof and a bifurcated base projecting rigidly and substantially horizontally from the bottom of the mast, said base being substantially symmetrical about a center line in the same vertical plane as the cantilever and having limbs which diverge from each other with distance from the mast and are each adapted to be respectively wedged into the cusp shaped spaces defined by a wheel tire of a vehicle and the surface on which the vehicle stands on respectively opposite sides of the area of contact of the tire and that surface.
For preference, the mast, cantilever and base are separable components adapted to be readily assembled for use, and, subsequently, dissassembled for storage and transport. Also for preference the mast is telescopically adjustable in length to enable the support structure to be used with vehicles of differing heights or signs of differing sizes.
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Challangila Pty. Ltd.
Green Brian K.
Paul & Paul
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