Solar display kiosk
AssigneeAnimotion Inc.
InventorRonald A. W. Clarke
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Abstract
A solar display kiosk particularly to a display kiosk that during day time conditions is illuminated by the sun. It provides, in its preferred embodiment, a closed cylindrical member placed in the vertical position with an open or a closed but light transmissive upper end, which acts as a receiver for solar or ambient light. A circumferential band at the top of the kiosk acts a shading member to place regions immediately beneath such band into shade either totally or in part (umbra and penumbra). Translucent display materials are mounted in the walls of the cylinder in the zones of umbra or penumbra. To the viewer they appear to be highly illuminated, the illumination coming from the solar light entering into the center of the cylinder.
Claims9
A solar display kiosk comprising;
- (a) a closed conic having an upper and a lower end, spacely disposed by a circumscribing wall that defines a plenum;
- (b) the upper end defining a first light transmissive region carrying thereon a pellucid ambient light capture area that is substantially equal to or greater than that of said upper end, whereby ambient light is adapted to pass through said first region into the plenum;
- (c) the conic wall defining a second light transmissive region for conveying the ambient light within the plenum through the wall to the space immediately exterior to said plenum and the conic;
- (d) means peripheral to said second light transmissive region for securing in close proximity thereto, indica;
- (e) means within said plenum, for conveying ambient light entering therein, via the first said light transmissive region, through said second light transmissive region so as to illuminate said indica by means of back lighting;
- and,
- (f) a light obscuring canopy projecting above and extending over said second light transmissive region so as to project shade onto and partially obscure said second region from direct illumination by ambient light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.