Abstract: The present invention relates to a sign that can be hung from a suspended ceiling. Specifically, the cantilevered and/or counterbalanced sign rests securely in the inverted "T" rail of a suspended ceiling tile grid, and can easily be inserted or removed without damaging or destroying the ceiling tile. At the same time, the cantilevered and counterbalanced structure of the present sign permits the sign to rest securely on grid rails with varying support ledge designs, shapes and dimensions.

Abstract: A hand rail for a moving walkway, escalator or the like having a cover of transparent material substantially thereover, such that advertising material and/or printed material placed on the hand rail may be seen through the cover. The cover may be manufactured separately from the hand rail such that it may be removed therefrom, permanently affixed thereto, or hinged therefrom. The cover may also be manufactured integrally as part of the hand rail. Alternatively, the cover may be hardenable liquid such as plasticized PVC.

Abstract: A sign and process of making a sign which comprises applying vinyl graphics to a backside of a substrate by use of high pressure rollers laminating machine or squeegee and covering the back side of the substrate and graphics by a backing sheet. The graphics and backing sheet may be applied by a laminating machine or squeegee and secured in place by a self-adhesive. Applying the laminated film on the reverse side has a protection quality that a slik screened or spray painted face does not have since the vinyl protects the rear side of the face against scratching during installation of the face and/or transportation of the sign.

Abstract: An amusement device for enabling a colorful display of one's allegiance to a particular team or entity includes a generally circular hoop member which is provided with a generally cylindrical handle portion, an air-extendable, flexible, fabric sleeve which is hollow throughout having a large opening at one end and a smaller opening at the opposite end and which is securely attached to the hoop member such that the larger opening remains in an open condition. The hoop member further includes a rotational joint which receives the generally cylindrical handle member and which is anchored in place by top and bottom retaining rings securely attached to the handle member, one on each side of the rotational joint of the hoop member. As a circular motion is imparted to the handle member, this motion results in a circular path of the hoop and fabric sleeve, and the interaction of air flow into the hollow sleeve through the hoop results in the hoop and sleeve rotating so as to always receive the incoming air flow.

Abstract: A display panel device includes a display panel having a sensor sensitive to light, sound, heat and so on and a recorder/playback combination attached thereto. As an object transparent to or shielding light and generating sound or heat approaches the panel, the sensor is automatically actuated to give an automatic actuation to the recorder/playback combination, thereby reproducing music or sound from the surface of the display panel.

Abstract: A display stand for water heaters presenting information in an orientation easily read by a prospective purchaser is disclosed. The display stand is comprised of three flat panels, a top panel engaging the top of a water heater, a presentation panel, presenting information at an orientation slightly inclined with vertical and a stand off panel at the bottom of the presentation panel holding the presentation panel at a specific angle with respect to vertical and slightly away from the body of the water heater.

Abstract: A card holder assembly for holding a dialing instruction card for a paystation telephone includes a monolithic bracket that exhibits a planar forwardmost surface to which a card holder is attached. The bracket also exhibits a lateral surface oriented orthogonally to the forwardmost surface and arranged to be positioned alongside the paystation telephone. A ligamentary portion joins the lateral surface to a bracketing surface that includes a mounting notch for supporting the bracketing surface, and, thereby, the entire card holder assembly, on a mounting surface such as the rear wall of the paystation booth. A card holder, configured to have a perimeter conforming to the perimeter of the forwardmost surface, is attached to the forwardmost surface by virtue of hardware inserted through access holes that align with mounting holes in the forwardmost surface.

Abstract: A card for exhibiting and displaying alphanumeric information, such as a pricing sign for retail use, is provided. Generally the card is reusable. At least a portion of the face of the card has a background formed thereon in a dark colour, and a plurality of multi-segmented alphanumeric presentation display digit. Each of the display digits has at least seven bar segments so arranged as to form the digit "8". Various alphanumeric digits or letters can be formed by changing the colour of none or some of the bar segments of each display digit, so as to change its value, using a marker having an ink which is substantially the same colour as the colour of the background. The changed displays thereby present alphanumeric data, most usually pricing data, as desired. The card may be reused by wiping the changed display digits with a dampened wiping means which may carry water or a specific solvent, depending on the nature of the ink that has been used in the marker when the display digit was first changed.

Abstract: A vandal resistant mounting method and apparatus for an advertising display unit for use with a public telephone is disclosed. The advertising display unit mounting comprises a vertical post having, a recessed support in a front opening to secure the public telephone, and an advertising unit including a display wall having an aperture. The mounting disclosed operably prevents removal of the display wall from the post. The display wall has at least one laterally outwardly extending wall section adjacent the aperture of the unit for display of advertisements. Additionally, a transparent covering is attached to the display wall to operably shield the advertisements.

Abstract: A laminated signboard comprises a backing member overlaid with an attached reenforcing network into which a layer of polymer-fortified concrete is interlocked for bearing three dimensional indicia. The indicia is carved into the set up, but not practically hardened concrete. Usually, the concrete surface including the indicia is coated with a weather-resistant coating, and at least part of the indicia is coated to contrast with the remainder of the surface.

Abstract: A header for mounting on a upright column or columns of a merchandise display unit, with the header being of generally arcuate configuration, in plan, and having vertically spaced tracks thereon receiving and mounting a removable flexible strip sign or signs, such as for instance a sign having advertising or caption indicia thereon. The tracks are so constructed and arranged that the sign can be expeditiously assembled onto the header by threading the flexible sign through slots and into the tracks for mounting the sign on the header, and also providing for rapid removal or changing of the sign.The header, in certain embodiments, comprises a plurality of generally circular, in plan, sections connected together at predetermined peripheral locations thereof, with each section being adapted for mounting on a respective column of the display unit.

Abstract: A highly visible pennant intended to mark a particular location is combined with a fastener permitting it to be readily attached to an existing supporting structure. The pennant may be appropriately formed of semirigid material enabling it to extend horizontally outwardly a substantial distance from the supporting structure without dropping. The fastener is positioned at one end of the pennant and the opposite, free, end is wrapped around the supporting structure, then through a receiving slot formed in the fastener, and drawn tight. The fastener, which may be integral with the pennant or of a separate construction and fixedly attached to the pennant, has a resiliently mounted clamp member with teeth positioned to permit the pennant to advance through the slot but to engage the pennant and prevent its withdrawal. A release member can be provided to enable selective removal of the pennant from the fastener.

Abstract: A changeable advertising sign assembly adapted to be mounted on the interior surface of a door. The assembly consists of a frame having a detachable side edge normally inaccessible when the door is closed. A front transparent protective sheet is slidably mounted in the frame in front of a display sheet which is also slidably mounted in the frame.

Abstract: A device for displaying decorative articles such as photographs, greeting cards, or the like having five sections which are pivotably attached to one another for rotation about the pivot in adjacent parallel planes so that the sections may be shaped to conform to various patterns such as the arch of a doorway or the outline of a window frame and folded into a single longitudinal section for easy storage and packaging. The display is adaptable to various size doorways by providing a slideable attachment with respect to the relative edge of at least two adjoining sections. The display may be utilized for supporting and displaying decorative articles in a convenient and attractive arrangement.

Abstract: A sign device comprises a mounting part and an information-carrying part capable of being pushed onto the mounting part. When mounted the information-carrying part is locked on the mounting part by a hidden magnetic releasable lock which automatically locks the two parts together when the information-carrying part is in correct position on the mounting part. The locking device may consist of a tiltable plate born in a recess in the mounting portion and comprises an upwardly projecting flange for engagement in a correspondingly formed recess in the information-carrying part, the plate at the flange-carrying end being subjected to the influence of a spring in a direction out of the recess. This spring force can only be neutralized by an exterior force from a magnet making the flange-carrying end of the plate move downwardly into the recess and out of engagement with the information-carrying part.

Abstract: A product identification tag is made of transparent plastic and takes the form of a planar card from which one or more integrally-formed support portions project. In one embodiment, the support portion is slotted to receive J-hook or peg hook portions so as to be suspended from the hook, whereby an attached pressure-sensitive adhesively backed label is visible. In another embodiment, the support portions are flexible anchor arms which can be folded out of the card plane, each arm including a distal end with wing-like projections that can be flexed to permit insertion of the wings in the peg board holes and unflexed so as to anchor against the back surface of the peg board. The tags are die-cut from plastic sheets, preferably with adjacent tag edges sharing common die-cuts in order to conserve material.

Abstract: Symbols are provided for identifying a person as having a hearing impairment. The symbols ar affixed to an item associated with the person in such manner that the symbols are displayed to be viewed by other people. The symbol includes a pictorial representation of an ear, a designation indicating the ear(s) subject to hearing impairment, and a color coding applied to the pictorial representation indicates the degree of hearing loss. Examples of items to which the symbols may be attached include, among other items, a storm door, a screen door, an outside wall adjacent a doorbell, a house window, an eyeglass frame, an article of clothing, a cane, a walking stick, a dog harness, a dog collar, an identification card and a drivers license. The material, size and manner of attachment of the symbol to the item are dependent upon the item.

Abstract: A sign unit is described which may be used in a variety of ways to make up signs. The unit consists of an extruded section having a flat central web (1, 30) and two flanges (2, 3, 32, 33). The outer surface of web (1) remote from the flanges can have a legend printed on it. Alternatively a sign plate (14, 15, 37, 38) may be inserted between flanges (2 and 3) and held against e.g. ribs (4) or in grooves (35, 36). The flanges or formations thereon may be dimensioned to cooperate with a holder on which the unit may be clipped. The sign unit is preferably made of aluminium alloy or rigid plastics material.

Abstract: A commerical merchandising unit for displaying products offered for sale is integrally provided with a device displaying moving merchandising message indicia. Fixed merchandising message indicia may further be integrally combined in the general vicinity of the moving indicia. The integral appearance of either the moving indicia, or the fixed and moving indicia, combined with a merchandising unit, such as a refrigerated display case, significantly enhances the merchandising affect of the merchandising indicia.

Abstract: A reusable marking system comprising a high impact styrene plastic marking surface and a specially formulated water soluble marking ink. The ink is carried in a felt tip marker and can be removed from the marking surface using a damp wiper. The marking surface can be permanently marked using screen printing techniques to provide suitable permanent messages or to delineate areas for non-permanent markings.

Abstract: A vandal resistant mounting method and apparatus for an advertising display unit for use with a public telephone is disclosed. The advertising display unit mounting comprises a vertical post having, a recessed support in a front opening to secure the public telephone, and an advertising unit including a display wall having an aperture. The mounting disclosed operably prevents removal of the display wall from the post. The display wall has a least one laterally outwardly extending wall section adjacent the aperture of the unit for display of advertisements. Additionally, a transparent covering is attached to the display wall to operably shield the advertisements.

Abstract: Product information tags formed from plastic sheet are adapted to engage a merchandise support hook between two arms of an angle iron hook support member. In one form of the invention a mounting portion of the sheet is divided into two panels with a transverse fold line therebetween and apertures in the respective panels connected by a longitudinal slit which allows the mounting portion to be pressed down over a part of the hook within the angle-iron support and snapped into place with the respective panels juxtaposed with the limbs of the support. In a second form of the invention the mounting portion of the tag is formed of four panels which fold to provide a triangular-section wedge with similar apertures and longitudinal slit allowing the wedge to be snapped over the hook into the angle iron support.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for introducing messages to the subconscious mind is disclosed, which includes a panel positioned adjacent a television screen, with the panel having non-distractive messages imprinted thereon, such that as the subject consciously focuses his attention on the video screen, his subconscious mind records the message from the panel that is within his peripheral vision.

Abstract: An extruded sign frame section for use with flexible sign facing. The flexible sign face material (2) is secured by gripping element (8), the gripping element hooking onto knob (29) and permitting the material (2) to be stretched tautly across the sign frame (3). In a preferred embodiment, the extrusion includes a stabilizing element (24) which abuts the material (2), tending to dampen vibration of the sign face when subjected to wind loading. In another embodiment, an inclined member (34) permits the sign face material to be stretched across the frame (31) so as to conceal the extrusion, thereby giving the sign a borderless appearance.

Abstract: An elongate product identification tag for displaying merchandise data forwardly of a horizontally extending hook on which the merchandise is suspended, has a mounting portion of specialized form for use in securing the tag in a channel on a support panel to which the hook is attached via a bracket with an upper portion in the form of an inverted U which fits over the forward web of the channel. The mounting portion of the tag is shaped as a wedge for fitting in the channel behind the bracket portion and has a projection in a forward surface thereof against which a lower edge of the bracket engages to stabilize the tag in the channel and prevent its withdrawal until the hook is removed.

Abstract: A product information display tag is particularly designed for use in combination with a product support hook structure of the gangbar type having elongate support hooks extending forwardly from a transverse bar which in use is support cantilever-wise from a perforated board. The tag has a mounting portion for attachment to the hook structure at a junction of a hook and the bar, and an elongate portion for extending lengthwise over the length of the hook. The mounting portion has a central aperture whereby the tag is slid along the hook from its distal end and the mounting portion is slit into a central tab and outer wing sections. The central tab engages against the front of the gangbar and the outer wing sections are twisted over the back of the bar. Portions of the wing sections are hinged forwardly so that their upper edges snugly grip the bar. The mounting portion provides secure stabilized attachment of the tag to the hook structure.

Abstract: A product information and identification tag for use in combination with an elongate product-suspension hook extending from a transverse rod at the back of the hook has a mounting portion particularly adapted to fit on the hook/rod assembly at the junction of the rod and hook, and an elongate intermediate portion for extending over the hook to display product information at the front of the hook. The mounting portion has a central section which can bend at right angles to the intermediate portion and tabs on opposite sides of the central section which can fold backwards or forwards with respect to the central section. The central section has a cut-out which receives the hook, and the tabs have hook formations which can resiliently grip the rod either from the front or from behind depending on which way the tabs are folded.

Abstract: A combination portable stadium cushion and pennant includes a seat cushion made of a block of foam material or the like, enclosed within an outer cushion cover, an inverted U-shaped member attached to a top part of the seat cushion and having a plurality of pockets formed in side walls thereof. The U-shaped member is made of a transparent plastic material and has openings into the pockets at the top edges thereof. The cushion may be used as a pennant by inserting bumper-stickers or the like displaying information about a team into the pockets. In another embodiment, the cushioned seat has a rectangularly shaped extendible member slidable in and out of a cavity in the cushion. The inverted U-shaped member then is placed on the extendible member.

Abstract: A display panel is provided for the major obverse face of a vending machine in which contrasting panels provide the suggestion of a container of primary product in combination with a vending control array presenting that primary product in dominance of a plurality of secondary products to be vended so as to induce predominate selection of the primary product. The contrasting panels further provide a superimposed alphanumeric or other display configuration on the display panel to further enhance the dominant presence of the primary product.

Abstract: A roller apparatus is provided for a flexible web such as a map, chart, window shade or the like which is provided on at least one free margin thereof with a rigid, elongated holder element of predetermined cross-sectional dimensions which are substantially greater than the thickness of the flexible webbing material. The roller apparatus comprises a rigid, elongated tubular roll of substantially greater dimensions than the predetermined cross-sectional dimensions of the holder element and including a longitudinal through slot of a cross-sectional dimension smaller than that of the holder element and greater than the thickness of the web. An end cap is non-rotatably attached to either end of the tubular roll.

Abstract: An improved forwardly-extending product information tag, formed in a plastic sheet, is provided with a retainer aperture to receive the distal end of a merchandise support hook and thereby preclude transverse flexure and mispositioning of the tag. The tag includes a three-section mounting portion in which one of the sections can be folded in either of two directions to permit the tag to be mounted on different style support hooks which project from an apertured board.

Abstract: A display panel structure includes a pair of longitudinally spaced vertically adjustable posts provided at their bottoms with mounting clamps and at their tops with transverse support rods terminating in short upright legs which engage apertures in coupling lugs projecting inwardly from rectangularly arranged corner members and tie rods extend between and separably engage diagonally spaced corner members. Fascia panels extend between each pair of corner members and have in their rear faces keyhole slots which releasably engage enlarged head coupling elements projecting outwardly from the corner members. A bracket is vertically adjustably mounted on each post and carries for transverse adjustment an arm terminating in a coupling element carrying plate and a fascia panel extends between the plates and has keyhole slots engaging the coupling elements.

Abstract: A nameplate or the like is made by providing an open-type frame which has an opening extending completely therethrough. The front face of the frame is recessed. Insert members having, for example, individual letters are placed in the recess. Each insert has a tongue which fits in the opening and which has its outer face co-planar with the outer surface of the frame and the adhesive member is secured across the outer faces of the frame and tongue.

Abstract: A display panel for a vending machine including the capability of adding promotions, advertising, and special equipment such as electronic and video games to the existing vending machine. A utility module for containing one of these devices is located on the display panel of the vending machine and is so positioned so that it optimizes a combination of criteria including space, circuitry location, a prominent spot for display purposes and a location enabling easy retrofit of the utility module into a vending machine unit.

Abstract: A combination portable seat cushion and pennant comprising a foldable carrying case having two pockets therein in side-by-side relationship foldable along their common border, each pocket having an open end to receive therein respectively a pair of cushions. Each of the cushions comprises a block of foam rubber or plastic or other cushioning material enclosed within an outer covering of flexible sheet material such as plastic, cloth, leather or the like. The cushions are readily removable from their respective pockets of the carrying case for use as pennants and noisemakers during the course of a sporting event. Each cushion includes a broad, substantially flat surface which the spectator can slap together when holding one of the cushions in each hand to use as a noisemaker during the sporting event. Such surfaces also include descriptive material thereon for use as pennants such as team colors, words comprising team cheers and the like which the spectator can display during the game.

Abstract: A supplemental molding, which is an extruded polymer, snaps onto the conventional molding along the front edge of a display shelf, and holds enlarged shelf labels in an inclined disposition. It is particularly suited for shelves located close to the floor level, for the labels may be read easily without stooping.

Abstract: A display panel is provided for the major obverse face of a vending machine in which contrasting panels provide the suggestion of a container of primary product in combination with a vending control array presenting that primary product in dominance of a plurality of secondary products to be vended so as to induce predominate selection of the primary product. The contrasting panels further provide a superimposed alphanumeric or other display configuration on the display panel to further enhance the dominant presence of the primary product.

Abstract: A display panel is provided for the major obverse face of a vending machine in which contrasting panels provide the suggestion of a container of primary product in combination with a vending control array presenting that primary product in dominance of a plurality of secondary products to be vended so as to induce predominate selection of the primary product. The contrasting panels further provide a superimposed alphanumeric or other display configuration on the display panel to further enhance the dominant presence of the primary product.

Abstract: Sign apparatus for indicating that a coin-operated machine is out of order has an upper sign portion indicating the inoperative condition of the machine and a guide member which extends into the coin chute of the machine. A pair of biased legs having fastening members at their extremities depend outwardly from the guide member and engage ledges in the interior of the coin chute to hold the sign in place.

Abstract: A display device is provided which is adapted for use in conjunction with conventional shelf moldings. The sign includes a first portion which snaps within the molding and a second portion which extends therefrom. The second portion is foldable with respect to the first portion so that it may be oriented perpendicularly to the shelf molding. An area of reduced width may be provided between the two portions to facilitate the device's application to the molding. The first portion may be transparent if material positioned thereunder is not to be obscured. At least two adjacent edges of the first portion are sinuated to allow it to be easily inserted within the shelf molding.

Abstract: A card for displaying price or other graphic information is mountable on a price rail of a conventional store display shelf, stand, or the like, and includes a central information carrying portion, and opposed tabs extending therefrom which are adapted to be retained in a conventional price rail. One of the tabs includes a remote enlarged portion suitable for containing information thereon and connected to that tab by a rib or a bridging portion which extends from an edge of that tab which is not retained by the price rail when the card is mounted therein.

Abstract: A name plate comprising a right angle glass prism mounted on a mirror such that an exhibit mounted on one of the prism faces provides several images depending upon the user's line of sight of the prism.

Abstract: A changeable directional sign for providing observers with directional information to a particular location or event and including a generally rectangular sign board having a height dimension greater than its width dimension and with printed indicia on the face of the sign board describing a particular location or event. An elongate indicator of a length no greater than the height dimension of the sign board is pivotally secured to the rear of the sign board at a predetermined location on the upper medial portion of the sign board. The indicator, when manually positioned either upwardly, to the left, or to the right, extends in projecting relation beyond either the upper or side edges of the sign board to thereby indicate to the observer of the sign that the direction which should be followed to the particular location or event is either straight ahead, to the left, or to the right.

Abstract: A directional sign for providing observers with directional information to a particular location or event and including a rectangular signboard with indicia provided on one face of the signboard describing the particular location or event. Three directional indicators are provided on the face of the signboard closely adjacent three of the four edges of the signboard and oriented respectively upwardly, to the left, and to the right relative to the indicia. Means is provided to facilitate removing from view two of the three directional indicators when installing the directional sign for use so that only one directional indicator remains visible on the face of the installed sign and this indicator serves for signifying to observers of the sign the one correct direction which should be followed to the particular location or event.

Abstract: A point-of-sale display marker assembly including a paper base member with slits cut therein and mountable on a commodity shelf, an attention-catching display marker of paper also with slits cut therein, and an elongated, flat, transparent, resilient support member with tabs at each end which are insertable into the slits in the base member and the display marker to form a unitary assembly having the display marker suspended in space in front of the commodity shelf.

Abstract: A supermarket dispenser for informational sheets, formed of resilient synthetic resinous material with support means providing stress resistant capacity greater than that of prior art devices.