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US 3,984,931 AGranted
Illuminated overhead advertising display
OwnerPaul Belokin, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A cross-sectionally V-shaped, improved display sign illuminated by overhead lights and locatable at any selectable level without interference with floor level lighting in stores having different height ceilings with ceiling supported fluorescent lighting fixtures, the sign receiving substantially vertical rays of light which it deflects at a selectable determined angle approaching horizontal.
Claims11
An overhead sign illuminated from a distance outside its confines comprising:
- a horizontally elongated lighting fixture, having a housing supported on a wall of a room and an elongated source of radiating parallel rays of light disposed in a plurality of diverging planes that have a substantially common axis of intersection for illumination in said room,
- a translucent panel spaced from said axis and disposed with its light receiving face substantially parallel with said axis and disposed at an acute angle of inclination to a portion of said diverging planes where it may be viewed at approximately a right angle to the line of sight of people in said room,
- means for supporting the source of light and said panel a spaced distance greater than the width of the panel for minimizing the quantum of rays from said source that are interrupted thereby with respect to the use of remaining rays for room illumination,
- said panel including means for diffusing parallel rays of light passing through it viewed by said people, and
- means on said panel including indicia proximate the face thereof absorbing patterns of light rays for viewing readability.
2 more elements
An overhead sign illuminated at an acute angle by an elongated fluorescent light fixture having a housing defining upwardly facing shoulders,
- magnetic weight supporting members resting on said shoulders and magnetically engaging the housing in sheer relation and including flexible means depending therefrom in supported relation,
- sign means having spaced end members supported on said flexible means and in turn releasably receiving and supporting a translucent sign panel disposed at an acute angle to light rays from the fluorescent fixture,
- said sign panel carrying indicia on the side exposed to the observer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.