Patent ID: 6334596
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: A45F,E01F,G09F

Abstract:
A sign support system comprising a vertical support assembly and a connected sign support for displaying a sign attached thereto, said vertical support assembly comprising:a handle member; a slide hammer shaft, said slide hammer shaft having a first end connected to said handle member and a second end terminating in an impact element disposed externally to said handle member, said impact element having an upwardly facing extraction impact ledge extending radially outward from said slide hammer shaft; and a tubular lower shaft portion having an upper end and a bottom end and a lumen defined there between having an upper limit and a bottom limit, said tubular lower shaft portion comprising an installation impact surface which defines said bottom limit of said lumen, a longitudinally aligned penetrator element integrally attached to the exterior surface of said bottom end, a cap element securely attached at said upper end of said tubular lower shaft portion and defining said upper limit of said lumen, said cap element being circumferentially disposed and slidably engaged around said slide hammer shaft such that said slide hammer shaft extends upwardly out of said lumen to said handle and extends downwardly within said lumen a sufficient length to reach said installation impact surface when said handle slide hammer shaft is slidably positioned downward in said tubular lower shaft portion, said cap element comprising an extraction impact surface facing toward said lumen, said extraction impact surface being adapted to receive forceful impacts from said extraction impact ledge of said impact element when said handle is moved away from said lower shaft portion; a first tension member adapted to support a sign, said first tension member being attached to said handle member; and a second tension member adapted to support a sign, said second tension member being attached to said lower shaft portion.