US 4,671,004 AGranted

Vehicle mounted portable sign

OwnerMarlin C. Berginventor

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Abstract

A portable sign mountable upon the roof of a vehicle. The portable sign is in the form of a hollow body having three side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall interconnected in a triangular form. The forwardmost edge of the interconnected side walls is positionable towards the front end of the vehicle for reduced wind resistance. Suction cups are mounted on the bottom wall of the body and in conjunction with strap members also mounted on the bottom wall of the body and connectable to the vehicle to provide for secure and removable attachment of the sign body on the roof of the vehicle. Detachable cover members carrying printed indicia are attachable on the side walls of the body to change the printed indicia on the sign. An illumination source is mounted within the body for illuminating the printed indicia formed on the side walls of the body.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A portable sign for a vehicle having a roof and an electrical system powered by an electrical battery source, the portable sign comprising:

a body having first, second and third side walls at least two of which are formed of a continuous strip, at least certain of which have indicia formed thereon, a top wall and a bottom wall, the first, second and third side walls being formed into a triangle having vertically extending edges;
upper and lower, spaced frame members, each having a substantially planar triangular form, the upper and lower frame members interconnecting only the top and bottom edges of the top and bottom walls, respectively, to the adjacent top and bottom edges of the first, second and third side walls to leave the vertically extending edges of the first, second, and third side walls exposed;
a plurality of suction cups mounted on the body for removably mounting the body on the vehicle roof;
strap means, secured to the body at one end and removably engageable with the vehicle at the other end for removably mounting the body on the vehicle in conjunction with the suction cups;
and
illuminating means, mounted within the body and removably connectable to the battery of the vehicle, for illuminating the indicia on the side walls of the body.

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A portable sign for a vehicle having a roof, said sign comprising:

(A) a body having first, second and third sidewalls, at least two of which are formed of a continuous strip, the first, second and third sidewalls being formed into a rigid triangular body structure having vertically extending apexes;
(B) a top structure including a triangular planar top wall section and a frame section including a downturned flange extending in triangular fashion totally around the laterally outer triangular perimeter of said top wall section, said downturned flange having an internal circumferential size and shape generally corresponding to the external circumferentail size and shape of said triangular body structure;
(C) a bottom structure including a triangular planar bottom wall section and a frame section including an upturned flange extending in triangular fashion totally around the laterally outer triangular perimeter of said bottom wall section, said upturned flange having an internal circumferential size and shape generally corresponding to the external circumferential size and shape of said triangular body structure;
(D) the upper edge portion of said triangular body structure being positioned within said downturned flange of said top structure and attached to said top structure and the lower edge portion of said triangular body structure being positioned within said upturned flange of said bottom structure and attached to said bottom structure so that said rigid body structure forms the sole interconnection between said top structure and said bottom structure to thereby form a substantially triangular tubular body structure with the vertically extending apexes of said triangular body structure totally exposed and with said sidewalls coacting to form a continuous closed loop viewing display surface extending 360.degree. with respect to the central vertical axis of the sign;
(E) a plurality of spacer members attached to the underside of said bottom structure for seating on the roof of the vehicle;
and
(F) strap means secured at one end thereof to said sign and removably engageable with the vehicle at the other end thereof for removably mounting said sign on the roof of the vehicle in cooperation with said spacer members.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.