US1119371A - Electric-display control. - Google Patents

Description

F. O. REILLY.

ELECTRIC DISPLAY CONTROL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY}, 1913 Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

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v 1 ,119,371 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D 1 1914'. Application filed Kay 1, 1915. as. No. 104,734.

T all whom it ma concern; are shown in the full lines for the urpose Be it known that I, FRANK C. REILLY, a of clearness. b, is a superimposed board citizen of the United States, residin at Dewhich likewise carries a plurality of elec- I troit,.county of Wayne, State of hgchigan, tric lights rectangular] arranged to form so have invented a certain new and useful Imthe studded field. This oard Will be termed provement in Electric-Display Controls, and h S cond field of electric lights and it is declare the followin to be a full, clear, and upon this field that the stationary signs, figexact description of the same, such as will ures, representations or borders are flashed. enable others skilled in the art to which it It will of course be understood that it is not 05 pertains to make and use the same, reference absolutely necessary that the illuminary efbeing bad to the accompanying drawings, fects be stationary during the period in which form a art of this specification. Which they remain upon the board, for this This invention relates to moving electric fie d m ght be d ted o b01 16! Which signs and especially to that form of moving has a changing effect as is quite common 7 electric si s that known as a motograph With borders in electric illumination. It} and whic is described in Patent No. will also be understood that the shape of, 1,050,203, i su d t E. H. Bickley, tlnssecond field may be varied to accord he present invention is an improvement I h the effects desired. upon the invention described in said patent The lights on the motograph board a are 7,; and involves the idea of automatically conch ne onnected with terminals 0 upon trolling a flash sign in connection with he r sh block d- These terminals, as de the moving lite al display upon th motoscribed in the aforementioned patent, are graph board. The motograph comprises aparranged in the same way as the bulbs are paratus for moving a perforated insulating arranged on the motograph display boardso ribbon across a field'of electric terminals to T re passes between the two parts of the produce moving letters that travel from brush block d, a switching strip 6 which is right to left upon a display-board. It 00- constructed of insulating material such as ours to the'applicant that it would be very perforated tough paper. This strip is desirable to be able to dis layflash or teml t as shown in the drawings and these porary tationary sig s,- gures or borders s'lotsrepresent the representation or si with the reading matter that is moved across that it is dcsiredto throw upon the display the motograph display board; for instance, board, for Instance, the wor Meat is Obs where the motcgraph is used by a'number of served on the insulating stri c. It will, advertisers, it would be .quite desirable to also, be seen that the word eat is just ter was, at a given time, appearing on the As the stu travelsacross the brush block, motograph display-board constantl before the word eat Wlll travel across the diethe. observer during such period. 0 effect play board. This traveling action is ap this and carry out this idea, I have designed parent by the appearance of the letters the apparatus hereinafter described. esh which are a portion of the word In the drawin :Figure 1, is a diagram- Fresh which is, just disappearing off matic view of t e apparatus. Fig. 2, is a the board at the left. j vertical section of the switching mechanism Intermediate control devices might be inor control which is shown somewhat dia terposed between the motograph display grammatically. Fig. 3, is an enlarged frag- .board andthe terminals so that the arrangementary view of. the switching mechanism ment of the terminals would not 'ust coror control, showing diagrammatically the respond with the arrangement of t c lights operation of the brushes, and differing from on the board. I wish it understood that the switching mechanism in Fig. 1 in havmy invention could be appllied to almost ing only one brush to help operate the staany kind of switching mec anism for optionary sign. crating the board on which the moving a, indicatesthe motograph dis lay board illuminary effects are, produced. At one 4 which com rises a rectangular fie d studded side of the switching strip a I arrange with cqua ly s aced electric light bulbs. two rows of perforations f. A pair of These are not s own in such arran ement brushes or terminals h are located on for the reason that only the illumine bulbs the brush block 'so that tie perforations crank armature dily will pass under them and electrically close the circuit through the wire g. T employ the two terminals 9 so as to insure the closure by this double precaution, although one is all that is necessary and only one is shown in Fig. 3. terminals is traced. through the wire g about the magnet 5 through the wire y tothe return wire It. When the slots 7' come under the brushes it, one circuit is established, the magnet energized and this attracts a bell- Z, which moves the pawlcarrying arm m, forcing the'pawl n to drive the ratchet wheel 0 one notch. This ratchet wheel operates a control contained in the control box p. This control is not illustrated as there are a number of control or switches for bringing onto an electric display board a different combination of letters or different representations. This is part of the prior art. It suflices to say that my invention consists of operating such switching control to bring on a new sign or representation for the second display board. This operation is performed automatically and synchronously with the change of the subject matter on the motograph.

A cable 1* leads from the switching box 79 of the display board to the second display board 6 and it will be understood that, in the familiar way, the wires lead from each of the lights of the display board I) to terminals in the switching box p. L return conductor s leads from the board I). A return wire 70 leads from the motograph board while the feed conductor t leads to the motograph switch board d to furnish current for the individual circuits that run through the cable to the motograph board and also for the circuit that controls the magnet 71. A branch feed wire as furnishes current for the individual circuits that lead through the cable 9' to the second display board b.

The switching ribbon. e passes over the rollers 'v and y, the latter of which is driven by a belt '5, into the storage box to. lit will be understood that almost any form of control for be second display board can be used without avoiding the principle of my invention.

What T claim is ii. In an electric sign control, the combi- The circuit from these nation of a display board provided with rows of electric lights arranged in a compact field and a second display board provided with electric lights arranged to be capable of different arrangements in illumination, of a field of contacts connected with the first-mentioned display board, a control strip bearing means which travel across the field of contacts for producing illuminary effects traveling from side to side across the first-mentioned display board, and means operated in conjunction with said strip for producing temporarily stationary effects upon the second display board, the said last mentioned means cooperating with the control strip and contacts to produce certain temporary stationary efi'ects at times when they will have significant relation with the particular illuminary effects at that time traveling across the first display board, substantially as described.

2. In an electric sign control, the combination with a display board provided with rows of electric lights arranged in a compact field and a second display board provided with electric lights arranged to be capable of difier'ent arrangements in illumination, of a field of contacts connected with the first-mentioned display board. a control strip provided with characters which. passing across the contacts, produce similar illuminary characters traveling from side to side across the first-mentioned board, the said strip being provided with means for making and breaking a circuit. and means for producing different flash illuminations upon the second display board, the said lastmentioned means being operated by the means on the strip that makes the circuit, the said means for establishing the circuitbeing located on the strip in a relation to the characters on the strip to bring aflash illumination upon thesecond board which will have a significant relation with respect to the illuminary characters at that time appearing on the first display board, substantially as described.

Tn testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

' FRANK C. REILLY. Witnesses:

Swan-r Ciliauxns, Vmernm C. Smart.

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