House identification fixture
AssigneeLight-House Products, Inc.
InventorsRaymond A. Edwards, Kevin S. Edwards
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AssigneeLight-House Products, Inc.
InventorsRaymond A. Edwards, Kevin S. Edwards
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A system for identifying a house includes a display unit mounted outside the house, the display unit housing a plurality of bulbs for back lighting a translucent panel, with numbers affixed thereto. A combined control module/power pack within the house and in electrical communication with the display unit. The power pack includes an electronic control circuit for selectively providing a plurality of modes of operation, including an automatic operation (e.g. the display unit goes on at dusk and off at dawn), manual operation, blinking white display, and blinking red display, plus an override in any mode, including an off mode. The blinking display signals an emergency condition. A separate status display enables a home owner to give a status signal to a person outside the house to give warning of such thing as the presence of a home invader, for example.
An apparatus for identifying a house comprising:
An apparatus for identifying a house comprising:
A display apparatus comprising a housing having at least one light translucent panel with indicia thereon and being positioned for viewing from outside said housing, illuminating means for back lighting said panel in one of at least two colors, remote control means, means responsive to said remote control means for manually selecting at least one of said two colors for illuminating said panel at any given time, means responsive to said remote control means for selectively lighting the selected color in a selected one of a plurality of modes of illumination, said means for lighting in one of said modes comprising transistors individually associated with each of said colors for applying an energizing potential to said illuminating means, timing means for flashing said selected color in one of said modes, said timer means cyclically driving said transistors in order to provide said illumination at two alternating levels of flashing illumination, and remote sensor means for preempting said illuminating means in response to a sensed condition including illumination when the apparatus is switched off.
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