| 摘要 |
A lightweight, portable sign and stand apparatus comprises a plurality of ground-engaging legs 14, 16 secured to a longitudinally-extending elongated base assembly 12. The base assembly of the preferred apparatus includes clamping members (24) 26 for clampingly anchoring a thin, flat sign panel 20 protruding generally upwardly therefrom. The sheet material of which the sign panel is composed is sufficiently rigid that the sign panel is self-supporting in its protruding relationship with the base assembly. The sign panel 20 is sufficiently flexible and resilient, however, to bendably deflect in a generally lateral direction, without yielding, in response to transverse loads exerted thereon, thereby substantially preventing the sign and stand apparatus from tipping over. The sign and stand apparatus also preferably has a resultant or combined center of gravity 58 that remains inboard of boundary 60 of the engagement of the legs with the ground in order to further resist any tendency to tip over in high winds. <IMAGE> |
