Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Illuminated sign – Lamp box
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-18
2011-01-18
Hoge, Gary C (Department: 3611)
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Illuminated sign
Lamp box
C040S600000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07870687
ABSTRACT:
A readily modifiable modular sign apparatus is especially useful for fast food restaurants as backlighted menu boards in both indoor and outdoor applications. The apparatus comprises a preferably translucent substrate or mounting board which is preferably planar and has a front surface and a back surface. Precisely positioned holes are prepared at selected locations. These holes are formed to be aligned with thin metal shims which are affixed on the back surface of the mounting board and receive cylindrical magnets on the front surface. The magnets are attached directly to the rear of printed sheets, each of which may have wording or pictorial information or both. The magnets contact the metal shims through the mounting board holes, and are held firmly in position by virtue of both the magnetic attractive force and the shape of the walls of the mounting board holes. The printed sheets may be provided with price carriers to permit personnel to change just food prices without the requirement to replace the entire printed sheet. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, such price carriers are affixed directly to the front surface of the printed sheets in a unitary, integrated structure that provides easy access to the price indicia.
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Hoge Gary C
Tachner Leonard
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