2nd Inventors' Olympiad - GENIUS 2000 Budapest, Virtual Exhibition

Registry number: G/2-033 Category: G/2 Country: Hungary
Advertisement board
The invention
  • The problem to be solved:
    The permanent advertisement boards sometimes are unwanted due to their unfavourable and unwanted influence in the landscape and cityscape, this is why an easy to hidden and reappear type advertisement board should be required. The invented design solves this problem.
  • Definition:
    The object of the invention is an unrolling and rolling up advertisement board operated by a partially or fully inflatable hose-spring combination that in its state of rest automatically rolls up.
  • Presentation:
    The invention consists of a plastic hose with a flat spring strip fastened at one side and a flexible plastic sheet, with the desired advertisement, fastened at the other side of the hose. In its state of rest the flat spring is rolled up together with the plastic hose and the plastic sheet that contains the advertisement, keeping all in rolled up position. Blowing up the hose with air it unrolls and remains in straightened state as long as the pressure difference prevails but if the pressure drops down it rolls up again by itself. The design, arrangement, shape and number of the hose(s) used can at will be modified.

 

  • Application:
    It can be used in protected and historical cityscape environment, landscape-protection area, as temporal decoration of inner areas, divider wall, poster, projection screen, etc.
  • Advantages:
    The advertisement board can periodically be made to appear but it can also be made to completely disappear when not required. It can be programmed at will and it can show moving advertisements, too.
  • Stage of development:
    A demonstration model and the measurement results are available.
  • Documentation available: Yes
The inventor(s)
  • Name(s): Csongor CZINTOS
  • Self introduction:
    The inventor is 45 years old, qualified mechanical engineer since 1979. He worked in the fields of public utility design, construction and operation, in the metal-industry, and in the lighting engineering, at first as employed and later as self-employed.
The protection
  • Form: patent application
  • Priority: 05 November, 1999.
  • Countries where it is force:
Business intention: The inventor should like to sell the licence and he is looking for development co-operation partner.
Contact
  • Name: Csongor CZINTOS
  • E-mail: czintosc@matavnet.hu
  • Fax: +36-76 483-297
  • Phone: +36-76 483-272 or +36-76 323-675
  • Address: H-6000 Kecskemét, Csáky u. 3. Hungary