[0001] The Patent Law in force establishes that new inventions involving an intentive activity
and which are susceptible to an industrial activity are suitable for patenting (Article
4-1).
[0002] The invention is considered new when it is not anticipated in the present state of
the technique, meaning that it is not understood in everything that, prior to the
date of filing the application for the new patent, was accessible to the public, in
Spain when it is a question of Utility Models, or in Spain and abroad when it is a
question of Invention Patents. Similarly to be understood as within the present state
of the technique is the object of any application, both of Invention Patents and Utility
models, whose filing date were prior to the filing date of the new application, so
long as the previous applications have been published or are due to be published later
(Article 6.)
[0003] The invention is considered to have inventive activity if it is not deduced from
the present state of the technique in any evident manner (when it is a question of
Invention Patents) or in any very evident manner (when it is a question of Utility
Models) appraised by an expert in the subject (Articles 8-1 and 146-1).
[0004] Finally, an invention is considered to be susceptible to industrial application when
its object can be manufactured or used in any type of industry, including that of
agriculture.
[0005] Therefore, in virtue of what goes before and based upon the set of articles that
gather up the expressed concepts, it should be considered that the invention to which
reference is made in this present report possesses the above conditions of novelty,
inventive activity and industrial application as demanded, with its thereby being
worthy of the patent for which the application is being made, and also of the rights
of exclusive manufacture, commercialization, use, offer and introduction into commerce
that the Law in force acknowledges (Articles 50, 51 and 152 of the Patent Law dated
March 1986).
[0006] The object of the present invention, as expressed in the ABSTRACT of this descriptive
report, is a RECIPIENT ATTACHABLE TO PARKING-INHIBITOR RODS.
[0007] The present device is susceptible to being fitted over the rods or metal columns
used generally for impeding vehicles to be parked on the sidewalks, or else for setting
apart the areas in which traffic is restricted or forbidden, due to which these rods
are normally situated along the kerbs of the sidewalks, above all being of relatively
small dimensions.
[0008] The purpose of the novelty recipients consists in introducing an improvement to these
rods both in the aesthetic and practical sense.
[0009] In the aesthetic sense, because they thus allow coupling flower pots with live or
artificial plants therein, and in the practical sense because at the same time a functional
ashtray may be coupled to the rod.
[0010] On the other hand, this device increases the surface area of this type of city furnishing
element, making it possible for it to be used as a showcase for publicity announcements
or for any other type of indications.
[0011] The novelty recipient is composed of a tubular element of a square cross-section
suitable for fitting over the rod to which it is connected and held immobile by means
of two screws in the tubular part which apply pressure against the rod. At the top
of this tubular piece there are two receptacles suitable for use as flower pots or
as ashtrays or both at the same time. The entire complex can be integrated within
a case of a variable shape whose sides can accept all kinds of publicity designs.
[0012] With the purpose of illustrating what has been put forth to here, accompanied to
this present descriptive report and forming an integral part hereof is a sheet of
drawings on which in a simplified and schematic manner an example of the operation
is presented, merely in an illustrative and not limiting sense of the practical possibilities
of the invention.
[0013] These drawings correspond to the representations of the elevation bottom, and right
and left profiles of a recipient according to the principle of the claims, equipped
with a case of a generally triangular in shape.
[0014] According to the drawings, the novelty recipient attachable to parking-inhibitor
rods consists in a tubular element of a square cross-section -1- which susceptible
to being fitted over a conventional parking-inhibitor rod -2- to which it is connected
and held immobile by means of two screws -3- through its surface which apply pressure
on the rod, thus impeding its being removed.
[0015] This device is equipped at the top with two receptacles that are capable of being
used, as per the different versions, as flower pots, in which case it will be provided
with a perforated base -4- that allows the evacuation of the excess water used for
irrigating the plant contained therein, or as an ashtray in which case it will be
covered -5- and provided with a small hole -6- which allows introducing cigarette
butts and other refuse of small dimensions, as well as the extraction of that refuse
by aspiration.
[0016] The entire complex can be integrated within a case -7- with a surface that is useful
for publicity purposes and which, for maximum adaptation to the city environment,
will present a width not very much in excess of the diameter of the rod itself in
such a way that it does not overlap the edge of the kerb of the sidewalk nor hinder
the transit of pedestrians.
[0017] Once made the description to which the previous report makes reference, it is essential
to insist on the fact that the details in carrying out the idea as put forth may vary,
meaning that they may undergo simple alterations, always based on the fundamental
principles of the idea and which are in essence those which are reflected in the paragraphs
of this description as put forth.
[0018] Indeed, the Patent Law in force establishes as unsuitable for patenting any changes
of shapes, dimensions, proportions and materials in any already patented object, thus
establishing the criterion of the legislator in the sense that nobody may base themselves
on an idea that has been patented and which can give rise to a practical and industrially
useful reality in order to present it as new and their own under the pretext of having
introduced slight modifications therein.
[0019] Having established the given concept, to the extent to be given in the protection
requested, next drawn up is the Note of Claims, thus synthesizing the novelties that
we wish to claim:
NOTE
[0020] In summary, the privilege of exclusive exploitation that is applied for will be based
upon the following claims:
1. RECIPIENTS ATTACHABLE TO PARKING-INHIBITOR RODS, of the type generally placed along
the kerbs of sidewalks for impeding vehicles to be parked thereon, characterized essentially
by their consisting in a tubular part of a square cross-section susceptible to being
fitted over the parking inhibitor rods and which, in order to be connected thereto,
is availed of two screws underneath which are screwed against it and are which are
capable of applying pressure to the rod.
2. RECIPIENTS according to the claim, characterized essentially because the tubular part
presents, at the top, two or more receptacles that are susceptible to adopting indistinctly
the configuration as a flower pot, in which case they will be provided with a perforated
base for the evacuation of excess irrigation water or as an ashtray in which case
they will be covered and equipped with a small hole for introducing refuse.
3. RECIPIENTS according to the previous claims, characterized because the entire complex
formed by the tubular part and the receptacles can be integrated within a case that
covers the parking-inhibitor rod either partially or totally.
As such, and as is described in the present descriptive report which consists of
six sheets, correspondingly numbered, typed on one side only at one and a half spaces,
and a seventh sheet containing drawings.