LED illuminated house number and sign characters
OwnerDarrel Slowskiinventor
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Abstract
An illuminated, shallow weatherproof signage character has individual three dimensional back-lighted/front/side and/or silhouette-lighting, with frosted areas of plastic, with virtually no limitation on the size or number of individual characters, which may be moulded or machined from solid plastic, which is U/V protected. Miniature, preferably LED lamps are concealed in the character. The life of the LED lamps is extended by limiting the applied voltage and the “on” time. The signage characters are usually elevated from their supporting surface, to effect back-lighting. Couloured LED's or a RBG LED, can be used selectively to colour the plastic signage.
Claims17
An illuminated signage character having a body with a frontal viewing face, said viewing face including a substantially opaque area of predetermined character form, at least a portion of said body being of translucent plastic material;
- a plurality of miniature lamps located in illuminating relation with said plastic material, opaque means positioned in concealing relation with said miniature lamps, wherein at least a portion of the surface area of said character has a frosted finish.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.