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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493715 | Scrolling poster display device The invention concerns a scrolling poster display device, comprising two parallel rolls, a poster strip wound on the rolls and a support device for supporting the rear side of the poster strip between the rolls. The support device comprises an air chamber delimited ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7421810 | Picture frame assembly for mounting to a cylindrical object A picture frame assembly includes a backing plate having a front surface, a rear surface, and a plurality of parallel grooves in one of the surfaces. The material and thickness of the backing plate are chosen so that the backing plate may be plastically deformed abo... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7293381 | Display device for a cooler door A display device for mounting on an inside surface of a cooler door has a mounting bracket for attaching to the cooler door, a top tube mounted on the first mounting bracket, and a bottom tube mounted on the first mounting bracket below the top tube. A display scrol... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7263791 | Display device A multi-image display device. Some embodiments include an alignment mechanism for correcting misalignments of an indicia, an image selector and a motion train, which form parts of the display device. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7238027 | Device functionality representation tool An apparatus for demonstrating cardiac device function and patient cardiac function over time, including a board with a coordinate system representing time, the board having one or more colored areas representing cardiac device function and patient cardiac function ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7210257 | Device for displaying lenticular displays The claimed invention provides a self-actuating lenticular display assembly that places the lenticular image in intimate contact with the lenticular lens while maintaining the lenticular image separate from the lenticular lens to form the lenticular display. The len... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212310 | Adaptive recording method and apparatus for high-density optical recording apparatus An adaptive recording method and apparatus for optimizing power of a laser diode is provided. In a method for optimizing read power, peak power and bias power for overwrite pulses and supplying the same to the laser diode, the adaptive recording method includes the ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7178466 | Railroad car with side and intermediate door providing access to the inside of its box body, and corresponding train A railroad car is provided having a box body extending longitudinally and delimiting compartments, seats arranged in the compartments, means for identifying the seats,means for identifying the car, and at least one side door providing access to the compartments. The... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7154383 | Dynamic mobile advertising system Disclosed herein is a vehicle mountable mobile advertising system for displaying a plurality of advertising messages. The advertising system is protected from inclement weather by a protective enclosure. The protective enclosure is provided with at least one message... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145558 | Selective illumination of regions of an electronic display An electronic device (1) provides for the selective illuminating of an associated display (5) thereby reducing battery power consumption. The electronic device (1) provides for detecting an event that will trigger an update of the display (5 | 12/05/2006 |
| 7101184 | Draw-trace-erase art training device An art training device. A graphics scroll presents various images suitable for tracing or copying, or blank spaces for freehand drawing, as it is wound or unwound on spindles. A transparent drawing sheet is mounted just above the scroll for the user to practice on. | 09/05/2006 |
| 7000344 | Up-and-down display sign A sign display apparatus. The apparatus includes a moveable display face for displaying information; a stationary display body having a source of illumination for the display face when the display face is in a position over the display body; and a drive mechanism co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6817124 | Artistic black/white board An artistic black/white board with decorative function. The artistic black/white board has an artistic frame. Two reels are hidden in two opposite sides of the frame. At least one picture is extensibly wound on one of the reels. In use, the artistic black/white boar... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6748685 | Display sign A scroll-type display sign is provided, including a frame, a first fixed shaft connected on the frame, a second fixed shaft connected on the frame parallel spaced from the first shaft, a first scroll roller rotatably mounted on the first shaft, a second scroll rolle... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6691441 | Device for individually and selectively displaying a set of posters A device for displaying a set of various flexible posters is described. The device includes a set of receiver drums on which the posters are respectively at least partially wound, a display window and a positioning mechanism for positioning each poster of... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6668473 | Device for suspending posters A device for suspending posters comprises a poster web that can be driven back and forth between two rolls with longitudinal tensioning in the direction of transport. The rolls are arranged one on top of the other. Each of the lateral longitudinal edges o... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6655059 | Hand-held roller reader device A slotted cylinder contains a pair of first and second rollers extending within the cylinder between opposing gears carried by associated sidepieces at the opposing ends of the cylinder. A scroll of reading paper connects between the rollers such that rot... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6564487 | Display device by unwinding a data medium screen Device for posting bills by unwinding a fabric (300) carrying information, in which the fabric (300) is wound and unwound around two motorized and synchronized rollers (100, 200) in such a way that the fabric (300) is kept under tension as it is unwound, ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6557281 | Public display device A public display panel includes an external casing which has at least one transparent opening, a support band made of flexible material which carries juxtaposed posters, and a driving mechanism for selectively displaying posters opposite the transparent o... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6467207 | Display apparatus with oscillation A display apparatus has a roll of film with multiple still images disposed along the roll of film. The roll of film is scrollable by one or more electric motors to display one or more of the still images on the roll of film at a visual display location. T... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6422286 | Sign for consecutive, repeated presentation of a series of images A sign (1) for mounting on an underlayer (P) and for consecutive, repeated presentation of a series of images. The sign (1) comprises at least two elongated display members (4). Each display member (4) has a plurality of sides for displaying images. The s... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6252575 | Method of selectively changing an image on a sign and a sign with selectively changeable image display A method of selectively changing an image on a sign and a sign with selectively changeable image display. A body is provided having a viewing aperture, a printer, and a printed media support for tensioning and advancing printed media produced by the print... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247256 | Scrolling sign retrofit kit A set of simple and economical components is used to transform an existing back lighted sign into a self-propelled scrolling banner display. Only two structural parts are used, and the electro-mechanical components are limited to a step-down transformer, ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6178674 | Display panel Display panel including several displays each having a surface area of at least 2 m2 and an automatic display changing device adapted to show these displays successively to the public. Each display comprises an optically transparent window (7) ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6105290 | Display device A display device (30), particularly for use as a menu board in a restaurant or the like. The device (30) has at least two rotatable roller members (31 or 32) located in substantially parallel spaced apart relationship. Carrier means (38) is provided, tigh... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6055753 | Media scroll, associated method, and media display assembly therefor A media scroll, and an associated method, formed of a plurality of media frames, in which the media scroll is formed of any selected number of media frames. A media display assembly of which the media scroll forms a portions supportively displays a media ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6029381 | Automated graphics scrolling arrangement A display arrangement presents sequential graphical data that corresponds to predetermined environmental features or points of interest, such as sequential holes of a golfcourse. The display arrangement is installed on the golf cart and the information th... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6012242 | Publication viewer A publication viewer for viewing sequential pages of a bound publication, printed on pages attached to a flexible strip of material. The pages include printed text pages and groups of animated pages of drawings or photographs. Indexing notches on the page... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5979093 | Changeable information scroll sign module A web tension maintaining roll in a scroll sign module is arranged with its axis parallel to a rotatable second roll, both rolls being arranged for rotation between laterally spaced apart side frame members. For each roll, a short shaft projects from oppo... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5953840 | Banner display device In a banner display device where a plurality of banners are mounted end-to-end upon a carrier web to form a scroll which is wound on a pair of parallel and spaced-apart rollers, means carried on the scroll for stretching or decompressing a medial section ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5946836 | Variable display device The display device has a free standing structure or it may be incorporated into a building wall. The display device primarily consists of a banner having a series of panels mounted in a plurality of display areas provided in a movable frame. A selected pa... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5940999 | Roll sign module unit First and second rolls arranged with their axes parallel to each other and spaced from each other between said side frame members for being driven rotationally to wind an information bearing web on one roll while the web is unwinding from the other roll. ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5924646 | Display apparatus for carpets A display apparatus employing a scrolling principle having two rollers that are activated and supported by independently controllable conveyors. The rollers, which can serve either as a supply roller or as a take-up roller, are attached to opposite sides ... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5809677 | Signs and displays having easily interchangeable information panels A sign wherein individual film panels bearing graphical information are interconnected as an uninterrupted web by way of interconnecting plastic zippers. The web, which is composed of a series of film panel transparencies, is wound and unwound from spaced... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5794881 | Gel tensioning device A gel tensioning device maintains tension on a gel. The gel is wound between two rollers as the diameters of the rollers change by rolling and unrolling the gel, the amount of movement between the two rollers also changes. This difference in movement is a... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5755050 | Web design for changeable sign A sign for selectively displaying a variety of information in a viewing window includes a web extending between a pair of spaced rollers and moveable by rolling and unrolling on the rollers. A base panel is releasably secured to a surface of the web. The ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5687498 | Display apparatus for changeable sign A display apparatus for presenting changeable signage appropriate for use with backlit sign frames. Information-bearing inserts are supported in pockets on a display film which has a plurality of transparent panes through which the inserts may be displaye... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5678333 | Scrolling sign for menu display unit A changeable scrolling web sign for selectively displaying a variety of menu items and pricing information in a viewing window includes a scrolling web adapted to receive interchangeable information panels. The mounts for mounting the information panels o... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5673504 | Tape display device A tape display device comprises a housing supporting a pair of parallel rollers between which a tape is adapted to be wound back and forth to display different visual information contained on the tape. The rollers are driven by a continuous belt via an el... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5638625 | Information board An information board includes display bands having information printed thereon mounted on wind-up rolls, the wind-up rolls being mounted on an axle. A wind-up motor is used to rotate the axle when the motor is rotated in a first direction to wind-up a dis... | 06/17/1997 |
