Luminous signs with sequential variation of images
AssigneeVisual Masters S.A.
InventorFabio Rafael Duque Cardona
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Abstract
Luminous signs, specifically those with the ability to change the presented information sequentially, include an electro-mechanical system that produces the synchronized overlapping of two or more preprinted films with translucent properties, in such a way that with an internal luminous source, the sign is capable of creating the effect of real movement, and in the night or in the darkness, the information images displayed by the sign seem to float in the air. The present invention also provides an illuminated sign with the capability of displaying such information or images on more than one of its surfaces.
Claims15
A luminous sign producing a sequential variation in a perceived image, the sign comprising:
- a support;
- a source of illumination, mounted within the support, which source illuminates at least one open face portion of the support from within;
- a plurality of rollers, having parallel axes, rotatably mounted on the support, wherein at least one of the rollers is a driven roller;
- at least one rotation means, rotatably engaged with at least the driven roller, for rotating the driven roller;
- at least one movable preprinted translucent film, operably engaged with the at least one driven roller, such that when the movable translucent film moves, it places an image across the at least one illuminated open face portion of the support, which image moves across the open face portion of the support as the movable translucent film is moved across the illuminated open face portion of the support by rotation of the plurality of rollers;
- a frame, mounted on the support outside the plurality of rollers and the movable preprinted translucent film;
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- at least one static preprinted translucent film, mounted on the frame, having an image over the at least one illuminated open face portion of the support which, when perceived in combination with the image on the movable preprinted translucent film moving across the illuminated open face portion of the support so as to overlap the image on the at least one static preprinted translucent film, produces an effect of real movement of the perceived image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.