U.S. patent number 3,803,738 [Application Number 05/291,343] was granted by the patent office on 1974-04-16 for advertising frame for use on a waste receptacle.
This patent grant is currently assigned to United Metal Receptacle Corporation. Invention is credited to Sam Weiss.
United States Patent |
3,803,738 |
Weiss |
April 16, 1974 |
ADVERTISING FRAME FOR USE ON A WASTE RECEPTACLE
Abstract
A readily attachable and changeable outdoor advertising sign and
a complemental relatively stationary but portable support therefor.
The sign comprises a metal picture-type frame. The inner perimeter
surfaces of the frame members are E-shaped and provide inward and
outward seating channels. The outward channel portions receive and
retain the gasket-equipped sealing and weatherproofing edges of a
transparent window while the inward channel portions seat and
removably retain the marginal edges of a changeable sign, an
attractive display-type placard. This composite eye appealing sign
is removably but retentively housed and keyed in track portions of
a receiver, more particularly, an oriented and coordinating
receiver which is recessed in a vertical wall portion of a
decorative-type outdoors support, more particularly, a solid waste
container or receptacle. This receptacle is preferably of a type
which lends itself to litter collecting use on city streets, in
keeping with environmental services recommendations.
Inventors: |
Weiss; Sam (Pottsville,
PA) |
Assignee: |
United Metal Receptacle
Corporation (Pottsville, PA)
|
Family
ID: |
23119924 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/291,343 |
Filed: |
September 22, 1972 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
40/306; D34/1;
220/210; 220/908; 40/611.06; 40/606.1; 40/606.05; 40/606.09 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G09F
23/00 (20130101); G09F 15/0043 (20130101); B65F
1/1426 (20130101); Y10S 220/908 (20130101); G09F
2023/0025 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
G09F
23/00 (20060101); B65F 1/14 (20060101); G09F
15/00 (20060101); G09f 023/00 () |
Field of
Search: |
;40/306,152,156,33,64R
;220/32 ;35/31E |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Grieb; Wm. H.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: O'Brien; Clarence A. Jacobson;
Harvey B.
Claims
What is claimed as new is as follows:
1. In combination, a portable self-standing outdoor solid waste
receptacle of a type currently used on city streets in keeping with
environmental service requirements comprising, a walled enclosure,
at least one vertical wall portion embodying a vertically recessed
portion providing a sign inserting receiver designed and adapted to
house and retentively but removably retain and present a sign for
viewing, and a bodily insertable and removable sign adapted for use
within the encompassing confines of said receiver, said recessed
receiver comprising an inset main vertical wall, bordered along two
vertical edges and across a horizontal bottom edge with outstanding
relatively narrow auxiliary walls, said receiver being open at its
front and at its upper end in a manner to accommodate the necessary
steps of bodily inserting and removing the sign, said auxiliary
walls in conjunction with said main wall providing track means for
the frame members which orient themselves therewith, the surfaces
of the auxiliary walls which face into said receiver having
centralized longitudinally extending keying ribs, and the outer
perimeter edges of the frame members having elongated grooves, said
grooves providing keyways for said keying ribs, said keying ribs
being aligned with and slidingly keyed and retained in given
positions in their respectively coordinating keyways, an upper
outwardly facing surface of said wall being provided with a fixed
Z-shaped bracket having an outwardly offset upstanding retainer
flange adapted to retentively seat itself in a downwardly opening
coacting portion of said inward channel in a manner to assist in
securely positioning and anchoring the sign in its viewable
position, said Z-shaped bracket extending substantially completely
across the receiver, the flange on the Z-shaped bracket and the
keying ribs on the auxiliary walls of the receiver engaged with the
grooves in the frame members coacting to prevent entry of water and
other material deleterious to the sign.
2. In combination, a portable support, for example, an outdoors
solid waste receptacle for use on city streets embodying a
self-standing enclosure open at an upper end and having at least
one vertical side wall having a vertically recessed portion
constituting a sign inserting and viewing receiver, said receiver
comprising an inset vertical wall marginally bordered along two
vertical edges and a complemental horizontal bottom edge with
integral outstanding interconnected marginal sign encompassing,
positioning, and retaining walls, said receiver being wholly open
at its front and also across its top in a manner to accommodatingly
facilitate inserting and removing a changeable sign, the median
surfaces of said encompassing and positioning walls facing into
said receiver having associatively aligned and coordinating
longitudinally extending keying and retaining ribs, bodily
insertable and removable sign adapted for display use within the
encompassing confines of said receiver, said sign comprising an
attractive picture-type frame, the members of said frame being
E-shaped in cross-section, the inwardly facing perimeter surfaces
of said frame members providing inward and outward spaced parallel
channels, one inward channel being of a depth appreciably less than
the depth of the other companion channels, a transparent window
having marginal edges provided with weather-strips fitted and
sealingly seated in coacting outward channels, a panel-type
advertising placard opposed to and protectively parallel with said
window and having marginal edges retentively but removably seated
in said inward channels, the outer perimeter edges of the frame
members having coordinating elongated grooves providing keyways,
the aforementioned keying ribs being aligned with and slidingly
keyed and retained in given positions in their respectively
coordinating keyways.
3. The combination defined in claim 2 and wherein an outwardly
facing surface of an upper portion of said vertical wall is
provided with a horizontal fixedly mounted bracket having an
outwardly offset upstanding retainer flange which is aligned with
and adapted to removably but retentively seat itself in a
downwardly opening coacting channel portion of said inward channel
in a manner which assists in securely positioning and anchoring the
sign in its viewable position within the confines of said
receiver.
4. The combination defined in claim 3 and wherein said offset
retainer flange extends completely across said inset side wall and
has terminal end portions cooperatively associated with
coordinating upper portions of adjacent keying ribs.
5. The combination defined in claim 4, and openable and closable
cover means for and normally spanning and closing the upper end of
said enclosure, said cover means embodying a depending skirt
portion oriented with and residing atop an upper member of said
frame.
6. The combination defined in claim 5, and wherein said cover means
is hingedly mounted on a predetermined portion of said enclosure
and is equipped with a key-controlled lock.
Description
This invention relates, broadly classified, to card, picture and
sign exhibiting devices and pertains, more specifically, to an
outdoor changeable frame-equipped sign which lends itself to
serviceable use in a recessed receiver built into a vertical wall
portion of a portable self-standing waste receptacle such as is
currently being endorsed for city use by environmental service
authorities.
To the ends desired, the waste receptacle (litter, refuse or trash
container) is not only constructed for outdoors on-the-street
"pitch in" use, it is so designed and constructed that it presents
an attractive and harmonizing appearance in keeping with the
street, park or other area in which it is set for use. The exterior
wall structure or enclosure which encompasses the concealed trash
collecting receptacle, is not only designed with requisite nicety,
circumferentially spaced vertical wall portions are provided with
novelly constructed pocketing receivers for retentive reception of
the insertable and removable display type signs. Each sign is an
innovation in that it is characterized by a picture frame equipped
with an outward window panel protectively shielding an inwardly
located sign, more precisely, a highly decorative and attractive
placard-type panel. This panel is readily attachable to and
detachable from the inner perimeter portions of the encompassing
frame members.
In carrying out the principles of the overall concept the framed
sign can be readily applied and subsequently unfastened merely by
sliding it upward from track means provided therefor, thus
expediting the step of changing the placard or show card and also
washing and cleaning the plastic protective window. The frame is
uniquely constructed in order that the panel-type placard can be
removed and replaced without using tools or implements. Also, the
complete framed sign can be clampingly held down and in place by
the hinged cover overlying the frame and can be locked in place, if
found to be necessary.
The broad concept of presenting and displaying advertising signs
and advertisements of one type or another on viewable wall surfaces
of trash containers is not new. Then too, the basic concept of
incorporating removable advertising panels on trash container walls
is known to be old. For background information reference may, if
desired, be made to prior U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,424,519; 1,424,520 of
Aug. 1, 1922; or U.S. Pat. No. 1,363,122 of Dec. 21, 1920.
Briefly, and considering first the bodily attachable and detachable
sign, it comprises a four-sided aluminum or an equivalent frame.
The cross-section of the horizontal top member and vertical frame
members is E-shaped. The horizontal bottom frame member is likewise
E-shaped. The outward channel portions accommodatingly receive and
position the vinyl molding on the marginal edges of the plastic
window panel. The inward channel portions receive and support the
readily insertable and removable sign, that is, the aforementioned
sign or placard. The inward flange of the horizontal bottom channel
is reduced in height and functions in a manner which allows the
placard to be removed, replaced and retentively retained in its
given position. The vertical wall portion (or portions) of the
shell or enclosure of the solid or equivalent waste receptacle is
recessed and otherwise expressly constructed to provide a sign
receiver and holder which has an open sign revealing front, is open
at its upper sign entrance and exit end and embodies features
hereinafter set forth.
These together with other objects and advantages which will become
subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and
operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part
hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and
in which:
FIG. 1 is a view in persepctive of a waste receptacle illustrating
an acceptable form of the same and showing, what is more
significant, the aforementioned readily attachable and detachable
advertising frames or signs constructed in accordance with the
invention and readied for use.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged detail section with parts in elevation taken
approximately on the plane of the vertical section line 2--2 of
FIG. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows and with the major
portion of the cover omitted for clearness of illustration.
FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view showing the sign receiver on
one wall portion of the walled enclosure, showing the
window-equipped frame and, below it, the readily insertable and
removable placard or sign.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged detail view of a framgentary type taken on
the plane of the vertical section line 4--4 of FIG. 1.
By way of introduction to the description of the details, it is to
be pointed out that the walled enclosure will vary in shape, size
and materials and could be either circular or substantially so or
non-circular. The adaptation shown is rectangular in
cross-sectional dimension. In actual practice wach vertical wall
will be constructed to accommodate the attachable and detachable
sign. The self-standing substantially rigid attractive enclosure is
denoted, as an entity, by the numeral 6. The single wall means
herein under consideration is denoted, generally stated, by the
numeral 8. This enclosure is adapted in practice to encompass and
conceal an inner open top receptacle 10 in the receptacle portion
of which is denoted in, FIG. 2 at 12. The upper open end is of
appropriate construction as at 14 and is located in cooperative
alignment with the dome-type or equivalent cover means 16. In
actual practice the left-hand or rearward end portion 18 of the
cover means is hinged in place (not detailed). The diametrically
opposite depending skirt or wall portion 20 may be and preferably
is provided with an appropriate key-controlled lock which is
denoted generally at 22 and is partly detailed at 24 in FIG. 2. The
entrance openings which permit trash and waste to be inserted are
denoted at 26. The container or receptacle may be provided with a
plastic bag or liner (not shown).
For sake of simplicity a single receiver and sign is shown. With
respect to the receiver, it is denoted, generally stated, by the
numeral 28 and is formed by recessing the wall in a manner to
provide an inwardly offset main vertical wall 30 whose upper edge
portion 32 is provided exteriorly with a sign stabilizing and
retaining bracket 34. In actual practice this bracket, which is
Z-shaped in cross section, is welded in place as at 36 and embodies
a fixed horizontal flange 38 and a vertical keeper flange 40 which
functions in the manner illustrated at the upper right in FIG. 2.
The receiver is open at the top and open at its front. The
outstanding lateral vertical narrow auxiliary walls, which are
joined with the main wall 30 are denoted at 42 and 44 respectively,
the latter wall being the so-called horizontal bottom wall. The
median portions of these relatively narrow walls 42 and 44 are
provided with integral coacting keying ribs 46 (FIG. 3). The
vertical corner portions and other surface portions may be rounded,
otherwise shaped and finished as suggested at 48 for appearance
purposes.
The readily attachable and detachable bodily insertable sign is
characterized by a substantially rectangular frame 49. The side
members are constructed of aluminum extrusion mitered and fastened
securely at each corner as suggested at 50. These frame members are
basically alike and are denoted by the numeral 52. The top or upper
frame member and two vertical frame members are identical in
construction and are E-shaped in cross section. This construction
is brought out in detail in FIG. 4 wherein it will be seen that the
outer channel means is denoted at 54 while the inner channel means
is denoted at 56. The outer channel means serves to accommodate and
retain the plastic window pane or panel 58. It will be seen
particularly in FIG. 4 that the marginal edge portions of the panel
are weatherproofed with vinyl molding suitably secured in place and
fitted snugly in the channel means provided therefor, the molding
being denoted at 60. The advertising or show card is denoted at 62
and will be finished for such artistic display purposes as called
for by the advertiser. With reference again to FIG. 4 it will be
seen that the bottom short lip or flange 64 is such that it
cooperates with the other flanges of the channel means to permit
the card 62 to be insertably fitted in place, shoved up by hand and
then dropped down and in this manner retained against
displacement.
With further reference again to FIG. 4 it will be noted that the
aforementioned inturned wall or flange means 42 and 44, being
provided with laterally projecting ribs 46 which constitute keys
and which are adapted to be fittingly seated in keying grooves 70
provided therefor in the outer peripheral or marginal surfaces of
the frame members 52.
It follows that the ribbed walls provide tracks for insertion and
retaining of the insertable and removable sign with the vertical
and bottom ribs 46 also serving as seals against entrance of
moisture which could damage the card. Also, the Z-shaped bracket 34
extending completely across the top portion of the wall and
generally equal to the distance between the side frame members 52
forms a water seal for the card. The extreme upper ends of the ribs
46 may be omitted (not detailed) to enable the flange 40 of bracket
34 to be positioned in alignment with the inner top channel means
56 for best results, that is, when the assembled sign is lowered to
its final display position.
The aforementioned bracket means 34 fits into the groove means as
shown in FIG. 2 to assist in stabilizing the sign once it is
inserted and properly seated in place.
A careful consideration of the views of the drawings singularly and
collectively will enable the reader to obtain a clear and
comprehensive understanding of the receiver means 28 and the sign
means 48 and how they are constructed and cooperate. Therefore a
more extended description is deemed to be unnecessary.
The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles
of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes
will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired
to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation
shown and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and
equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the
invention.
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