Patent Application
20220375371
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colors. It is used as a symbol, a signaling device, or for decoration. National flags are patriotic symbols with widely varied interpretations that often include strong military associations because of their original and ongoing use for that purpose. Flags are also used in messaging, advertising, or for decorative purposes. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
Hoisting the flag is the act of raising the flag on the flagpole. Raising or lowering flags, especially national flags, usually involves ceremonies and certain sets of rules, depending on the country, and usually involve the performance of a national anthem. Some rules of flag etiquette also apply to the lowering of the flag, and when the flag should be flown. For example, on special days, the flag may be flown at half-staff. On Memorial Day it is flown at half-staff until noon and then raised. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either.
There exists a need for an automatic flag displayer that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The automatic flag displayer is a weather-proof device that can be mounted and used to display a flag during appropriate times, without needing someone to manually fetch the flag and roll or unroll it. Instead, the automatic flag displayer comes with a remote control with buttons to control the necessary actions of opening or closing the rubber-sealed shutter doors where the flag is stored when not flown, lowering or raising the flag, and rolling or unrolling the flag. When the rubber-sealed shutter doors open, the flag hinge and the associated flag hinged arm can be manipulated by said remote to angle the flag out of the box. The combination of the hinge and the hinged arm provide structural support to the flag and secure it against strong winds or other hazardous weather conditions.
A flag display system disclosed includes a flag display device having a flag mast, a swivel pivot attached to an end of the flag mast, a swinging arm attached to a portion of the flag mast distal from the pivot end and a rotating portion of the flag mast. The disclosure also includes a housing for the flag display device, the housing comprising at least one hinged door configured to swing open and allow a flag attached to the rotating portion of the flag mast to drop from the housing based on the swivel pivot
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
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Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
