Patent Application
20060107567
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a dynamic advertising display device, and more particularly to a dynamic advertising display device having easily and readily changeable advertising or display panels.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Various kinds of typical dynamic advertising display apparatuses have been developed and comprise a number of cards or advertising or display panels to be cyclicly or continuously moved or driven through a window, for allowing the cards or advertising or display panels to be cyclicly seen by people.
For example, the applicant has developed one of the typical dynamic advertising display apparatuses which has been issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,363,638 to Liao, and also comprises a number of signboards to be cyclicly or continuously displayed by a number of signboard holders and a driving member, for cyclicly showing the signboards.
However, for holding or supporting the signboards, a number of signboard holders and a complicated driving member are required to be provided to drive or to move the signboards, and thus greatly complicate the manufacturing and the assembling of the typical dynamic advertising display apparatus.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,598,997 to Shyu discloses a typical light assembly having an endless color strap or belt member movably engaged around one or more light devices, for forming changeable colors or patterns.
However, the endless color strap or belt member is solidly attached to or around a number of posts, and may not be easily changed to the other color straps or belt members, such that the typical dynamic advertising display apparatuses may only be used to show or to display one sign or advertising. The users may have prepare a number of typical dynamic advertising display apparatuses to show or display various signs or advertisements.
The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate the afore-described disadvantages of the conventional dynamic advertising display devices.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a dynamic advertising display device including a number of advertising or display panels that may be easily and readily changed to the other advertising or display panels.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a dynamic advertising display device comprising a housing including a number of rods rotatably disposed therein, each rod including two followers attached to upper and lower portions thereof respectively, two transmission belts engaged around the followers of the rods respectively, to couple the followers of the rods together, and to allow the belts to be rotated by the followers of the rods, a first display panel and at least one second display panel coupled together, to form an endless displaying member, and attached to the belts, to allow the display panels to be moved in concert with the belts and to be moved around the rods, and a driving device for driving the rods to move the display panels around the rods, for advertising purposes.
The display panels are detachably coupled together with hook and loop devices, for allowing the display panels to be easily and readily changed to the other display panels. The display panels each includes two bands attached to upper and lower portions thereof for reinforcing the display panels.
The display panels each includes a number of orifices formed in upper and lower portions thereof, and the belts each includes a number of engaging members attached thereto, for engaging through the orifices of the display panels, and for supporting the display panels of the endless displaying member between the transmission belts.
The engaging members may be hooks to engage with the display panels, and to anchor the display panels of the endless displaying member to the transmission belts.
The engaging members may also be pegs for engaging through the orifices of the display panels, and each includes a latch attached thereto to anchor and to retain the display panels to the transmission belts. The pegs each includes a slot formed therein, to slidably receive the latch therein, the latch includes a groove formed therein, and a pin engaged through the slot of the peg and the groove of the latch, to slidably retain the latch to the peg, and to allow the latch to be rotated to a position perpendicular to the peg, and thus to retain the display panels on the pegs, and to prevent the display panels from being disengaged from the pegs.
The display panels each includes a number of bars attached thereto, and having the engaging members provided on the bars. The bars each includes a notch formed therein, and a fastener engaged through the notch of each bar, to secure the bar to the display panels respectively.
The housing includes at least one light device disposed therein, to light the display panels, and to allow the display panels to be easily seen by people. The housing includes at least one detector attached thereto, to detect a rotational movement of the followers of the rods, and a control device disposed in the housing and coupled to the detector, to receive detected signals from the detector, and to control the display panels to move around the rods in predetermined time intervals, or continuously.
The followers each includes a number of cavities formed therein, the belts each includes a number of projections secured thereto with such as fasteners, for engaging with the cavities of the followers and for coupling the followers of the rods together, and thus for allowing the belts to be rotated or driven by the followers of the rods. The driving device includes a motor coupled to one of the rods, to drive the rods and the display panels and the transmission belts.
The housing includes at least one detector disposed therein to detect a rotational movement of the followers of the rods, and a control device disposed in the housing and coupled to the detector, to receive detected signals from the detector, and to control and to move the display panels.
A receptacle may further be provided and includes a hollow chamber formed therein to receive the housing therein, and including at least one window provided therein, for allowing the display panels to be seen through the window. The receptacle includes a door pivotally attached thereto with hinges, for entering into the hollow chamber of the receptacle. The display panels may be moved cyclicly in predetermined time intervals, or continuously through the window of the receptacle for displaying or advertising purposes.
Further objectives and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from a careful reading of the detailed description provided hereinbelow, with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.
Referring to the drawings, and initially to
The receptacle 10 may include a door 14 pivotally attached thereto with such as hinges 15 (
The housing 20 includes a lower or bottom board 21, an upper frame 22, and one or more posts 23 disposed or secured between the bottom board 21 and the upper frame 22, for forming a spatial or a parallelepiped structure. A number of rods 24 are rotatably disposed or secured in the housing 20, or attached between the bottom board 21 and the upper frame 22, and each includes two wheels or followers 25 attached to the upper and the lower portions thereof respectively, and each follower 25 includes a number of cavities 26, such as semi-spherical cavities 26 formed in an outer peripheral portion thereof (
One or more, such as two transmission belts 30 are provided for carrying one or more advertising or display panels 50, and to be engaged around the followers 25 of the rods 24, and each includes a number of projections 31 secured thereto with such as fasteners 32, and equally spaced away from each other, for engaging with the cavities 26 of the followers 25, and thus for allowing the followers 25 of the rods 24 to be coupled together with the belts 30, and thus for allowing the belts 30 to be rotated or driven by the followers 25 of the rods 24.
The belts 30 may thus be made of flexible rubber or plastic or leather materials. One or more, such as two bars 33 may further be provided and each may include a notch 34 formed therein, for receiving the projections 31 or the fasteners 32, and for being secured to the belts 30 with the projections 31 and the fasteners 32. The bars 33 may be made of metal or stronger plastic materials, for reinforcing the belts 30, or for preventing the belts 30 from being damaged or broken by the projections 31 and the fasteners 32.
Two or more advertising or display panels 50 may be detachably secured or coupled together with fasteners, latches, hook and loop devices 51, or other coupling devices 51, in order to form an endless displaying member 5 (
A number of engaging members 35, such as pegs 35 are attached or secured to the upper belt 30 by the bars 33 and/or by rivets 36, for engaging into or through the orifices 53 of the upper bands 52 or of the display panels 50, and a number of further engaging members 37, such as hooks 37 (
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One or more detectors 62 may further be provided and disposed in the housing 20, or disposed beside one of the followers 25 of the rods 24, to sense or detect the rotational movement of the followers 25 or of the rods 24, and a control device 63 may also be provided and disposed in the housing 20, and coupled to the detectors 62, to receive detected signals from the detectors 62, and to control or to move the display panels 50 cyclicly through the windows 13 of the receptacle 10. For example, the display panels 50 may be cyclicly moved through the windows 13 of the receptacle 10 in predetermined time intervals.
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It is to be noted that the endless displaying member 5 may include two or more advertising or display panels 50 that may be easily and readily secured or coupled together with the hook and loop devices 51 or other coupling devices 51, to allow the display panels 50 to be easily changed with the other ones, when required, without disassembling the rods 24 and the followers 25 from the housing 20.
Accordingly, the dynamic advertising display device in accordance with the present invention includes a number of advertising or display panels that may be easily and readily changed to the other advertising or display panels.
Although this invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is to be understood that the present disclosure has been made by way of example only and that numerous changes in the detailed construction and the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
