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Author Topic: Who Paints Drive Inn Screens? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-11-2007 04:42 PM                     quote: John Hawkinson We have some billboards that use triangular strip technology to cycle between three different messages. Thats what made me think of it... More sides = more advertising revenue. Mark  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-11-2007 11:32 PM                     Isn't that why the center slats move first then the adjacent ones move outward from the center in a wavelike pattern? So they don't hit when they rotate?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-12-2007 01:10 AM                        quote: John Hawkinson We have some billboards that use triangular strip technology to cycle between three different messages. Probably already patented. If "using triangles in rotating signs" is patented the holder will lose any patent suit now that the USPTO has been recently instructed to stop issuing (and revoke challenged) patents for a now not insanely rigorous definition of obvious.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-12-2007 09:30 AM                     Sorry, Daryl, but the holding was a lot more narrow than that. Nobody knows exactly what it means (yet), but don't expect anything profound out of it --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-12-2007 10:34 AM                       quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea Three sided tubing might have a better chance of actually being able to rotate there Mark. ROFL! quote: Randy Stankey Isn't that why the center slats move first then the adjacent ones move outward from the center in a wavelike pattern? So they don't hit I think that's probably just showmanship, Randy. I could be wrong, but I don't imagine collisions are an issue with triangular pieces, unless they overlap in some fashion. EDIT: No overlaps... Tri-Action Louvered Signs Graphics Guidelines PDF  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-12-2007 11:08 AM                     The billboard company here installed one of those off Frankford avenue within sight of the theatre. At least once a week, I'll drive by it and observe that it's stuck, with the merger of 2 billboards on it.  |  IP: Logged Steve Wilson Expert Film Handler Posts: 109 From: Paoli, IN, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 05-13-2007 11:35 AM                        I like Barry paint my own screen. The last time I did, it took me a day and a half and cost me about $1500 to do it myself with some additional labor added into that total. Lifts can cost from $400 a day and up. I have a metal screen and painted it with water based Sherwin Williams metal paint and a top coat of Flat. I lucked out this past summer and picked up an old 60 foot bucket truck for about $3500, cost me $2000 in repairs, but its a very sturdy bucket for sure. If you have very many screens, which I dont have, this I think would be a good thing to have around at this price. I use it for all sorts of projects as I also have a 3 story building down town that I use it on too. Did I tell you that I was scared of heights!!!!!! I can pull loops in a airplane, do stalls, and wing overs and I am just fine, put me on a 12 foot ladder and I get sick! [ 05-13-2007, 02:10 PM: Message edited by: Steve Wilson ]  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-13-2007 07:02 PM                     quote: Did I tell you that I was scared of heights!!!!!! Take up skydiving... that'll take care of the height problem.... Mark  |  IP: Logged

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