Patent ID: 7159346
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
1. An advertisement display system, for use in conjunction with a plurality of existing portable toilets having housings arranged in a side-to-side array, for allowing the toilets to be used to provide a substantially continuous advertising presentation, said housings each having a roof, a base, and four vertically extending walls, said walls including two side walls, a rear wall, and a front wall having a door which selectively opens, said housings each having four corners, including a left rear corner and a right rear corner, wherein the sides of adjacent housings are separated from one another by a gap, wherein the housings include a first housing having a first side, a last housing having a last side, and a plurality of intermediary housings, comprising: a plurality of terminal bracket assemblies for vertical mounting at the corner between the first side of the first housing and its rear wall, and at the corner between the last side of the last housing and its rear wall, wherein each terminal bracket assembly is provided as two mirror image bracket assemblies—a left terminal bracket assembly which is selectively mounted onto the left rear corner of the first toilet housing, and a right terminal bracket assembly which is selectively mounted onto the right rear corner of the last toilet housing; a plurality of intermediary bracket assemblies for vertical mounting at the corners between all of the other sides of the plurality of toilet housings and their respective rear walls, wherein each intermediate bracket assembly is provided as two mirror image bracket assemblies—a left intermediary bracket assembly which is selectively mounted onto all the remaining left rear corners of the toilet housings, and a right intermediary bracket assembly which is selectively mounted onto all the remaining right rear corners of the toilet housings, each intermediary bracket assembly comprises a T-shaped intermediary bracket having a straight, projecting portion, wherein after being mounted to a rear corner, the straight projecting portion extends laterally beyond the side wall of the toilet housing to which it is attached, and into the gap between said toilet housing and the adjacent toilet housing, wherein the projecting portion has an L-bracket extending perpendicularly outward therefrom, wherein a vertical channel is formed between the projecting portion of the intermediary bracket and the L-bracket extending therefrom, said channel for selectively engaging one of the vertical edges of a panel assembly, wherein the channel also extends laterally beyond the rear wall of the housing to which the bracket assembly is attached; a plurality of advertising panel assemblies, for covering the rear walls of the plurality of toilet housings, and additionally for substantially extending into the gaps between the toilet housings in order to provide a substantially continuous advertisement, each advertising panel assembly having two vertical edges and a printed sheet which is interchanged as desired; and wherein one of the advertising panel assemblies selectively extends between the terminal bracket assembly mounted onto the left rear corner and the intermediary bracket assembly mounted onto the right rear corner of the first toilet housing, wherein at least another one of the advertising panel assemblies selectively extends between the intermediary bracket assembly mounted onto the left rear corner and the intermediary bracket assembly mounted onto the right rear corner of all the intermediary toilet housings, and wherein one of the advertising panel assemblies selectively extends between the intermediary bracket assembly mounted onto the left rear corner and the terminal bracket assembly mounted onto the right rear corner of the last toilet housing in the series of housings.