US1820157A - Transparent flag - Google Patents

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Aug. 25, 1931.

TRANSPARENT FLAG Filed Oct. 11, 1929 A TTORNE Y.

v.PRocHAzKA ,157

INVENTOR.

Patented Aug. 25, 31%3'21 hdittdd? earner easier VACLAV PROCHAZKA, 6E BRUNEI, @ZECEGSLUVAKIA rnansrnnmrr rand Application filed October 11, 1929, Serial No. 888,875, and m Gzecnoslovakia fieptemtaer 29, 1928.

Flags and pennants used in all kinds of displays are not'visible except in day-light or when the-streets, show-windows or the like. wherein they are displayed are suitably illuminated.

lhe object of the present invention is to make flags, pennants or the like also visible -in darkness, which object I accomplish by sources of light placed between the flags.

1:) In the annexed drawings, in which I have shown various embodiments of my invention, Fig. 1 isa perspective view showin a flag suspended from a horizontal flag sta Fig. 2 is a section along .line 2-2 in Fig. 1 and Fig. Sis a section along line 33 in Fig. 2,

while Fig. 4 is a modification showing a hollow flag-staff partly in section, a portion being broken out,

In the drawings 1) is the flag stafi, from to which is suspended a skeleton frame a made of wire, which frame may be of any desired shape. The skeleton'frame a is covered with white linen c on which may be printed or otherwise produced various inscriptions, ad-

:5 vertiselments or the like. From the skeleton frame a is suspended a wire frame d over which is stretched the flag 6, pennant or the like so as to cover the frame extending some distance below the same.

so Inside the skeleton frame a is provided the illuminating means 7' comprising, as shown in the drawings, a row of electric incandescent lamps g of any desired shape and provided with vari-colored bulbs. A

conducting wire is provided for supplying current to these lamps, the main supply wire being shown at h leading to a source of electric current, not shown.

In case of flags or pennants intended to 10 be carried through streets, the flag stafi is made hollow and within the flag stall is located a dry-cell battery, from which the current is supplied through conducting wires to the various lamps. Otherwisethe construction is the same as that shown in Figs.

I claim:

1. A'display device of the class described including a support, substantially diamond V shaped end frames depending from said sup port, a transverse lamp supporting bar mom ber arranged between said end frames, cloth panels fittedto the upper sides of the frames, and a flag secured to the lower'sides. of the end frames and draped therefrom.

'2. A display device of the class including a support, end frames suspended from said support and including a rectangular upper section and a lower section having its sides meeting at an acute angle, a lamp m supporting bar connecting the end frames, cloth channels fitted over the sides of the rectangular portions of the end frames, and a flag fitted to the lower sidesot the frames and depending therefrom.

3. A display device for flags, or the like including a support, a wire frame comprising a pair of end frames each including divergently disposed members connected by horizontal members and vertical members connecting the angle of the divergently disposed members and said horizontal members, a pair of depending converging frame members connected to the ends of the divergently disposed members, a horizontal longig tudinally disposed lamp support connected at its ends to the junction ot said horizontal and vertical members of the end frames, a covering spanning the upper sides of the end frames, and a flag draped over the converging frame members and depending therefrom.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

VAGLAV PROCHAZKA.

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