Motion display
CA 2040445 A1 · Owner: Gibeault, Thomas A. · Inventors: Gibeault, Thomas A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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This invention is a MOTION DISPLAY to be used in advertising or promoting products or ideas. It has an unspecified quantity of triangular columns with equal length sides that rotate about their centres. Pictures are placed on these columns and as the columns rotate the picture changes. This allows the advertiser to promote three products or ideas in the same space that it would normally take to do one. The triangular columns are held in a rectangular housing and are supported at both ends with locating plates. The locating plates or end supports act as the supports for the triangular columns, the triangular column locators and a means of rotating the columns.The columns are rotated in 120 …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 16, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 16, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 16, 2013.
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