Illuminated building number assembly

Claim 1

An illuminated building number assembly comprising: a one-piece box-like housing molded of hard, opaque, resinous plastic material, said housing having a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and a first and second sidewalls, but defining a front housing opening at the front side thereof; a fluorescent light bulb mounted in said housing and electronic energy supply equipment in said housing for supplying electrical energy to said fluorescent bulb; a one-piece, separate, front panel removably mounted on said housing, said front panel being of molded, hard, opaque, resinous, plastic, said front panel comprising a planar sheet defining a plurality of side-by-side pane openings therethrough separated by vertical dividers, said front panel having a front side to be facing away from said housing and a back side to be facing toward said housing, said front panel further including on said backside thereof, vertical parallel tracks defining vertical, parallel, U-shaped in-horizontal-cross-section, track slots, one adjacent each right and left side of each opening and a stop formed at the bottom end of each of said track slots, but the top ends thereof being open; a plurality of flat translucent number plates, each having an opaque number printed thereon, said number plates being of a size such that opposite right and left edges of each of them will fit in respective track slots located on opposite sides of an opening; attachment means for attaching said front panel at the front opening of said box; whereby each track is adapted to receive a translucent number plate to cover each of said panel openings to be held therein by said bottom stops, said panel being then reattached at said front housing opening, and said fluorescent bulb being energized to provide light behind said number plates.