US 6,186,454 B1Granted

Aesthetically-pleasing, post-mounted sign holder

OwnerDane R. Olseninventor

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Abstract

An aethetically pleasing sign holder releasably engages a pole or post without requiring tools and protects a sign from the elements. A sign is slid into an opening formed in an edge of a thin, hollow sign housing, and a front wall of the housing is transparent so that the sign within the hollow housing is visible to observers. The sign housing is mounted to a swivally-mounted base and a pair of flexible and resilient, semi-circular parts are integrally formed with the base. The half parts are spread apart from one another to admit a pole between them, and converged toward one another to lock onto the pole. A catch is formed integrally with one of the half parts and a latch that releasably engages the catch is formed integrally with the other half part. The catch and latch include mating teeth that extend along a predetermined circumferential extent to enable attachment of the sign holder to poles of widely varying diameters.

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Dependent claims

A sign holder, comprising:

a hollow sign housing having a preselected open edge for slideably receiving a sign into said hollow sign housing when said sign holder is fully assembled and in use;
said hollow sign housing having a transparent front wall;
a flat base for supporting said hollow sign housing;
a pivot pin disposed in interconnecting relation to said hollow sign housing and said flat base;
said pivot pin being centrally disposed with respect to said hollow sign housing and said flat base;
said hollow sign housing being rotatable about said pivot pin so that said hollow sign housing is positionable in a plurality of preselected rotational positions of adjustment relative to said flat base;
a main body integrally formed with said flat base, said main body adapted to grip a post;
said main body having a semi-circular first half part and a semi-circular second half part formed of a flexible and resilient material so that said first and second second half parts may be transiently displaced away from one another to admit a post therebetween and brought toward one another to cooperatively embrace a post;
a catch means formed integrally with said first half part;
and
a latch means formed integrally with said second half part.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.