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US 7,744,170 B1Granted
Weather resistant container for displaying building permits and storing construction documents
AssigneePro-Vent, Inc.
InventorJay B. Rutler
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Abstract
A weather resistant permit display apparatus includes a base, a cover hingedly connected to the base and a permit display panel connected to the base inside of the cover when the cover is in a closed position. A transparent portion of the cover allows a permit mounted on the display panel to be viewed through the closed cover. The display panel may be hingedly connected to the base to provide access to a document bin positioned behind the display panel.
Claims18
A permit display apparatus comprising:
- a) a base including a document storage bin connected to said base for receiving documents therein;
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- b) a cover hingedly connected to said base and moveable between cover open and cover closed positions about at least one cover hinge;
- at least a portion of said cover being transparent;
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- c) a permit display panel hingedly connected to said document storage bin and positioned in front of said document storage bin and inside of said cover when said cover is in said cover closed position, said display panel being moveable between panel open and panel closed positions and including a front face with a permit display area thereon, said permit display area being visible through said transparent portion of said cover when said cover is in said closed position;
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- d) said document storage bin being freely accessible when said display panel is in said panel open position.
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A building permit display box comprising:
- a) a base having a rear wall and first and second sides, said base including a recessed portion defined by a peripheral inner wall extending forwardly from the rear wall;
- b) a cover connected to said base by at least one hinge and moveable between cover open and cover closed positions relative to said base about said at least one hinge, said cover having a front wall and a peripheral wall including a top, bottom, first side and second side edge wall extending rearwardly from said front wall toward said base;
- said at least one hinge being connected to said cover proximate said second side edge wall, said cover further including an outer flange extending parallel to and outside of said second side edge wall;
- c) a primary gutter formed in said base and defined by said peripheral inner wall and a peripheral outer wall spaced outwardly from said peripheral inner wall and extending forwardly from the rear wall;
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- d) a supplemental gutter defined by said peripheral outer wall and an outer flange spaced outwardly from said peripheral outer wall along said second side of said base and extending forwardly from the rear wall and parallel to said primary gutter;
- e) wherein said outer flange is of a reduced height relative to said inner wall, and when said cover is in said cover closed position said peripheral wall of said cover extends into said primary gutter in said base and said outer flange of said cover extends into said supplemental gutter in said base;
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- f) a permit display area positioned inside of said cover when said cover is in said cover closed position, said permit display area being visible through a transparent portion of said front wall of said cover when said cover is in said cover closed position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.