Patent ID: 8156670
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: F16H,G09F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An Automated Rotating Billboard comprising a billboard frame having lighting facility consisting of plurality of lighting fixtures secured thereto and being provided with a covering for securing advertisement thereon, said frame being supported by an upstanding post fixedly attached on its bottom portion thereof; characterized in that said upstanding post comprising of a lower stationary post member and upper rotating post member, said lower stationary post member being fixedly connected to the ground preferably to a concrete slab by bolting and being provided on its upper end portion with a connecting plate, provided below said connecting plate is a motor housing wherein an electric motor is being disposed therein, said electric motor having a upwardly extending pinion gear adapted to be meshed to a bearing assembly of said upper rotating post member; said bearing assembly comprising of a circular ring adapted to be fixedly attached to said connecting plate preferably by bolting, said circular ring being provided with an annular gear rotatively in communication to the inner circumference of said circular ring, said annular gear being meshed to said pinion gear and adapted to be fixedly attached to an upper connecting plate of said upper rotating post member preferably by bolting; said upper connecting plate being provided on its lower side portion with an extension shaft with a rotating disc on its free end which extends within said lower stationary post member and meshed to a central bore of an auxiliary supporting plate fixedly attached thereon; said upper connecting plate adapted to support the cylindrical upper post member.